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Press Release: NBIF’s Breakthru Pot
The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has issued the following press release:
BREAKTHRU LAUNCHES WITH HIGHEST PRIZE POT TO DATE
New Brunswick's Startup Competition exceeds $500,000 to startup three new companies
FREDERICTON, NB—The New
BioPort, Collide Take Place This Week
Two of the major events on the Halifax startup calendar -- BioPort Atlantic and Collide – are getting under way today and tomorrow.
BioPort Atlantic is the region’s main life sciences conference, and its full conference agenda unfolds tomorrow
Press Release: Eastlink, CEED
Eastlink and the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development have issued the following press release:
Eastlink, Ceed Form Partnership to Support Entrepreneurs
Halifax, NS – Home-grown entrepreneurial success story, Eastlink, and the
Acadia’s Aida Eyes Agriculture
Melons are big, heavy fruits. They are also fragile. Their growth is influenced by variable, hard-to-predict weather factors and farmers depend on retailers selling their product before it goes bad.
That’s why one Nova Scotia melon grower has
Nicolle Brings Lessons from Boston
History has given Halifax profound ties to Boston. But Boston has a lot to teach Halifax about entrepreneurship, believes Steve Nicolle, CEO of Halifax health-care IT company STI Technologies.
Nicolle, a P.E.I. native, worked in the startup
Press Release: Engage Conference
Engage, a new conference on innovation and collaboration, has issued the following press release:
Engage Conference To Be Held Nov. 17-18 in Halifax
New conference to demonstrate how research and development partnerships between universities
Endurance Buys Seaforth Assets
Endurance Wind Power of Surrey, B.C., has bought some of the assets of wind turbine maker Seaforth Energy and opened a regional office and service centre in the Nova Scotian startup’s former base of Dartmouth.
The buyer, one of the world's
Dal, Next 36 Form Partnership
Dalhousie University and The Next 36 have struck a partnership that will help more Dal undergrads attend one of the most demanding startup programs in the country.
Dal President Richard Florizone and Jon French, Director of Marketing and
PEI BioAlliance Launches Emergence
The Prince Edward Island BioAlliance has unveiled the new “farms to pharma” incubator that it’s launching with funding from the National Research Council’s Canadian Accelerator and Incubator Program.
Emergence is an incubator designed to help
Genome Canada Funds 2 Programs
Genome Canada on Wednesday announced two research projects totalling $7.6 million that will undertake genomic research with the goal of improving East Coast aquaculture.
The not-for-profit organization that champions genetic research in the
Press Release: ABK Advisers
ABK Biomedical Inc., a Halifax based medical device company, has issued the following press release:
ABK Biomedical Attracts World Leaders to Clinical Advisory Board
HALIFAX, Canada; October 15, 2014 - ABK Biomedical Inc., a Halifax based
The #startupeast Reality TV Show
The Atlantic Canadian startup community is about to get its own reality TV show.
Startup Kitchen, the Fredericton group that produces video content on startups in the community, is upping its game with more of a documentary format. The
