For me, very little says more about the accelerated evolution of Atlantic Canada’s innovation economy than the maturation of Invest Atlantic.

The only pan-regional conference for investors and entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada will be held at the

The 2012 BioInnovation Challenge at BioPort Atlantic will be a larger event than last year, featuring seven participants, of whom at least three, have raised money previously.

The BioInnovation Challenge was launched in 2011 as the competitive

Three years ago, businessman Gregg Curwin asked to meet me to discuss my book on the Nova Scotia economy, in part because he took exception to my statement that food production was too small a part of the province’s economy to have a significant

The value of the McKenzie Accelerator – which is now accepting applications to its second cohort – was driven home to me when I watched Guyverson Vernous present his company iCubemedia at the accelerator’s Demo Day in April.

Vernous is a native

Ocean Sonics – the young sister company of Instrument Concepts of Great Village, NS – is planning to launch a new product called icTalk in the autumn to complement its successful icListen smart hydrophone.

Begun by marine engineer Mark Wood in

Now that he’s able to drive past buildings made of his green concrete blocks, Robert Niven is gearing up for CarbonCure Technology’s second round of funding, which he hopes will raise $3 million to $5 million.

Niven, an environmental engineer

Greg Phipps, the man who once brought BDC Venture Capital to Radian6, has taken a leave of absence from Innovacorp to join Livelenz Inc. as its president.

Phipps said in an interview Friday he will be away from Innovacorp, where he serves as an

The federal government’s announcement Thursday of $1.2 million in loans for four Halifax-area tech companies highlighted the benefits of both debt and equity financing from public and private sectors for the region’s startups.

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BoomersWork, a Halifax company that matches retired executives with projects for businesses or organizations, is developing a pricing model for startups to allow young companies to benefit from the experience of seasoned corporate vets.

The

A pair of researchers from Dalhousie University has struck a partnership with a venture capital fund from Toronto to commercialize their pneumatic rotary engine and develop other projects.

Braden Murphy, a Masters student in mechanical

When Trevor MacAusland participates in the prestigious Grow conference in Vancouver this month, it will provide a break from the task of building PropelICT into an organization whose influence spreads well beyond New Brunswick.

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When Dalhousie Professors Mary Kilfoil and Ed Leach recently posted a landing page for an innovative entrepreneurship course they’d developed together with their team, they were hoping it would generate some buzz. They didn’t expect more than 85