In a bid to address the structural factors that observers have said contributed to 2022’s innovation economy labour shortage, industry group Digital Nova Scotia is spearheading a new information technology jobs training program across the four

Springboard Atlantic has announced that it will lead Atlantic IP, the regional component of a new federal program that will help entrepreneurs develop, leverage and protect their intellectual property.

The federal government unveiled its Elevate IP

As we do each year, we're taking off the week between Christmas and New Year's. So this is our last day of publishing until Jan. 3. 

It's been a fantastic year, and we would like to thank all our readers and clients for making it so great. In 2022,

The past year has been one of significant change for the East Coast startup ecosystem, as a tumultous global economy made its presence felt in Atlantic Canada. Here’s a look back at some of the biggest innovation stories of 2022:

Many

Industry group TechNL has announced the creation of a new innovation hub in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador, for companies with remote operations.

The project is funded jointly by the federal government via the Atlantic Canada Opportunities

We launched Entrevestor Live last year to showcase the best and the brightest of Atlantic Canadian startups, and now we've produced a video to highlight some of these companies. 

If you didn't have an opportunity to join us on October 20, this is

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, or OSC,  has announced its Two-Eyed Seeing initiative, which aims to promote Indigenous participation in Canada’s ocean economy.

The national group, which is based in Atlantic Canada, said in a statement the initiative

Bedford, N.S.-based Ashored Innovations has raised US$1 million (C$1.36 million) from the Californian  Builders Vision impact fund as part of a larger seed round.

The funding comes as Ashored, which sells fishing gear designed to reduce accidental

TrojAI, the Saint John maker of cybersecurity software for artificial intelligence systems, has become the only Atlantic Canadian startup to make the Toronto-based Vector Institute’s inaugural AI20 for 2023 -- a list of startups to watch next year.

Having doubled its staff to 200 in the past year, Moncton-based recruitment software company VidCruiter is now unrolling a two-track strategy in which most customers will use its platform for either automated recruitment or for interviewing.

A new artificial intelligence centre at Memorial University, an expansion of Cape Breton’s Verschuren Centre bioprocessing hub and millions of dollars for two New Brunswick universities’ computer science programs are some of the innovation-related

Prince Edward Island’s bioeconomy has already surpassed its 2025 growth targets, posting a gangbusters $575 million in revenue in 2021, exceeding 2020’s figure by about $200 million.

Survey data from industry group the PEI BioAlliance of more than