It would be wonderful if Nova Scotia were designated an “intelligent community” next year. The fact that the province is beginning the process of seeking the designation should result in economic paybacks, say the campaign’s organizers.

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The establishment of a buyout fund in Halifax is a nice addition to the growing number of investment groups in the region, and could help with one problem facing the Atlantic Canada – succession in prosperous businesses.

SeaFort Capital Inc.

Breviro Caviar Inc. and Soricimed BioPharma Inc. are sharing the top award in the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation R3 Gala’s Innovation Challenge.

The winners will each receive $50,000 worth of research and development services at a New

Halifax engineers Tim Burke and Bill Power have formed a new medical technology company in Halifax that is starting not with a grand idea but a new method of developing innovation.

Impetus Innovations doesn’t know yet what its first product will

When Darren Piercey was developing his online software he had little trouble finding relevant subjects to test it: people afraid of spiders. The University of New Brunswick (UNB) psychology professor identified 300 undergraduates with varying

I was delighted this week to work with Fergus Dyer-Smith and Paul Ryan of Wooshii as they launched the online video crowdsourcing company’s new North American Headquarters and Global Development Centre in Halifax.

Wooshii is a marketplace for

Trevor MacAusland laughs at the notion of turning Launch36 into Launch72. For the past few months, the head of Saint John-based PropelICT has been working hard to launch Lauch36, a program designed to take 36 companies to a market-ready stage over

 Privatization showed its face in the Maritimes again last week, and as you might expect most officials saw nothing but pimples and buck teeth.

The New Brunswick Liquor Corporation has released a 73-page report that raised the issue of whether

We’re hours away from it being official: the Atlantic Regional Venture Capital Fund will not open on schedule in February 2012. But people in the know tell me that the negotiations on hiring a manager for the fund are proceeding – they’re just

Innovacorp president and CEO Clifford Gross has left an organization that is much different than the one he took over in January of 2011. It’s incredible how the Halifax-based provincial agency has evolved in a year.

I think it’s fair to say

The total value of the jackpot is $8.85 billion, and there are 4,269 ways to win. Am I talking about a new lottery? No. It’s the funding mechanisms for research and development offered by Canadian governments.

According to The Funding Portal, an

J.P. Deveau insists his concerns about pending reforms to R&D funding in Canada have little to do with his company, but, worries about how the reforms could affect younger, more vulnerable companies. Deveau is the founder and CEO of