New Brunswick has decided that innovation is going to be its engine of economic growth, and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is the engineer making sure the machine runs smoothly.Already this year, New Brunswick Premier David Alward has

Once again, I've got together with my friends at Startup Kitchen for Startup Monthly, and round-table discussion of what's going on in the region.

In addition to Suhaim Abdussamad and Robert Foley, we're joined this month by Jason Janes, a

As you read this, prison inmates in Minnesota, Kansas, South Dakota and Alabama are ordering basic consumer goods, doing financial transactions or sending messages using technology developed in Nova Scotia.

Genesis Technology of Halifax has

The interactive media industry in Nova Scotia is pressing the provincial government to review the terms and duration of its current digital media tax credit, saying it is difficult to develop long-term strategies without knowing if the credit will

With its customer list growing, Karma Gaming of Halifax has announced the $4 million first closing of its Series A round of venture capital in what is believed to be Atlantic Canada’s biggest VC financing from outside the region in almost two

Virtual Marine Technology, the St. John’s, N.L., developer of simulated training systems for maritime industries, has quintupled its revenues in the last two years with its drive into export markets.

And president Anthony Patterson says that

But there were two interesting standouts that played supporting roles at the conference, which was held in Halifax on May 30: the region’s start-ups and its universities.

The final conference in the 4Front series wrapped up with the 250

[Editor’s Note: Perry B. Newman is a consultant in Portland, Maine. We were discussing how Entrevestor could write more about startups in Maine when he proposed a guest column on what we in this region could learn from Israel. Here's the result.]

With a $1.9-million loan from the Atlantic Innovation Fund, Island Abbey Foods of Charlottetown is tripling its research staff and pioneering the delivery of health supplements and pharmaceuticals through its honey-based products.

The company is

Answer this quickly: What’s the one thing that private enterprise in Atlantic Canada wants governments to do to improve our competitiveness?

Did you answer, “Lower taxes”? It would have been my guess.

But we’d both be wrong.

The top business

Halifax Pop Explosion, the autumn event that started 21 years ago as a forum for local music, plans to expand its digital component this year so it will become a marketplace and mentorship lab for East Coast technology.

HPX last year added HPX

The Wallace McCain Institute at the University of New Brunswick has named the 16 participants in the sixth cohort of its Entrepreneurial Leaders Program.

After an intense two-day process it calls "The Choosing", the institute selected a range of