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$50 million BioAccelerator Coming to PEI
Work has begun on a new BioAccelerator in Charlottetown. Financed by the federal and provincial governments, the facility is designed to support Canada's expanding bioscience industry.
Spearheaded by the PEI BioAlliance, a private sector-led
Tech Forward Award Winners Named
Digital Nova Scotia last week honoured members of the province’s tech community with its Tech Forward Awards, recognizing diverse contributors and contributions to the province's ecosystem.
The winners are:
Diversity and Inclusion Award: MOC
InnovateNB Award Finalists Unveiled
Finalists have been announced for the third annual InnovateNB Awards, which recognizes innovators from all sectors of the province’s economy.
Winners will be revealed at the awards event to be held November 13 at the Delta Beausejour in Moncton.
Heart App Wins Health Canada Approval
St. John’s-based Sparrow BioAcoustics is celebrating Health Canada’s approval of Stethophone, an AI-powered app that allows users to capture and analyze heart sounds using a smartphone.
Designed for both healthcare professionals and personal use,
Bell’s Entrepreneurial Struggles Inform New Role
With her own business on ice after seven years of operations, entrepreneur Tracy Bell is able to bring a lot of empathy to her new role as executive director of the Wallace McCain Institute, which aims to help business owners and entrepreneurial
Volta and CDL Offer Fall Investment Day
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL-Atlantic) and Volta are holding an investment day that will showcase high-potential, early-stage startups building innovative solutions in the region.
Founders will pitch their companies to a curated audience of active
Bell Named MCI Executive Director
Well-known entrepreneur Tracy Bell is joining UNB Saint John-based Wallace McCain Institute as Executive Director, taking up her role over the next few weeks.
Bell who is from Rothesay, NB, first joined the institute in 2019 as a member of its
Dal Innovates Launches Collide for Student Entrepreneurs
Collide, an initiative that provides entrepreneurship programming for students, is being rolled out across Atlantic Canada following a year-long pilot project.
Collide was developed at Dalhousie University to mirror the national research
Spellbook in Deal with Thomson Reuters
Spellbook, the St. John’s legal software-maker that earlier this year raised US$20 million, has announced it has integrated content from Thomson Reuters Practical Law to allow clients to leverage the capabilities of both platforms.
Users now have
Avalon Prepares To Enter U.S. Market
With its first NOVAC holographic display table in operation, Avalon Holographics of St. John’s is preparing to ramp up sales in the coming year and deploy working models to the U.S.
The company, which can legitimately claim to be a global leader in
Precision Medicine Conference To Focus on Cancer
The inaugural Atlantic Precision Medicine Conference will be held in Halifax next week with an agenda focused on delivering the right cancer treatment to the right patient at the right time.
Precision medicine, aka personalized medicine, takes into
Invest NS Recovers $551K of Stolen Money
Invest Nova Scotia has recovered almost all the $573,000 stolen from it in a phishing scam this past spring, the economic development agency said Friday.
In July, the economic development agency said an imposter posing as a venture capital