Half of the small to medium-sized businesses in Atlantic Canada have trouble finding the employees they need, says a new study released by the Business Development Bank of Canada.

The national study found that half of the SME owners the bank

The Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship at Memorial University has a new Entrepreneur-in-Residence to encourage its students to pursue their ideas in the med-tech or health innovation sectors.

Mandy Woodland’s official title is Health Innovation

Halifax-based Sona Nanotech is planning to have its share trading publicly within a month – but on the Canadian Securities Exchange rather than the TSX Venture exchange.

Last month, the company posted a notice on its website providing an update on

Two Halifax companies have been accepted into an ocean-tech competition in Savannah, Ga., where they will compete for one of two US$100,000 prizes.

Ashored Innovations and Graphite Innovations and Technology will present at the eighth annual Ocean

Halifax-based Common Good Solutions, a consulting firm that fosters the social enterprise movement, is behind an expansion that sees its Social Enterprise Institute (SEI) partnering with the Australian Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship (ACRE) to

Squiggle Park, the Halifax- and Toronto-based startup that helps teach children to read, has been accepted into the Rev accelerator, the sales-focused mentoring program offered at Kitchener, Ont.-based Communitech.

The company, which received

During the Ocean Supercluster roadshow this summer, Matt Hebb made a throw-away statement that lingered with me, because it so elegantly described the role of startups in the Supercluster.

Hebb is CEO of the Supercluster, the four-province

Energia Ventures, the University of New Brunswick’s cleantech accelerator, launched its second cohort on Tuesday, welcoming six teams from across Canada and the U.S.

The UNB Technology Management and Entrepreneurship program launched Energia about

The folks at the University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship are gearing up to celebrate the centre’s 30th anniversary at its annual RBC leadership conference. 

The two-day conference, called

Peer Ledger, a Halifax blockchain company, has struck a strategic partnership with the Swiss precious metals company known as PAMP to work together to remove conflict minerals from the global supply chain.

PAMP, whose full name is Produits

A young New Brunswick company is on the cusp of getting the data it needs to assess whether its new video game is effective in helping children cope with anxiety issues.

The company is Fredericton-based Reframe Games, and its video game is called

Real-time data collection is quickly becoming the gold standard for record keeping across all industries. And Agyle Intelligence, a provider of a real-time operational intelligence platform, is helping set this new standard in Agricultural and