The Halifax maker of anti-microbial film for fish packaging that was formerly called Impactful Health R&D has rebranded to Freshr Sustainable Technologies.

Freshr, which was founded by biomaterials researcher Mina Mekhail in 2017 and makes its

A group of innovation ecosystem support groups on Prince Edward Island are collaborating to host a one-day entrepreneurship conference in Charlottetown Nov. 2.

The Summit for Island Entrepreneurs and Innovators is being organized by Startup Zone,

On the eve of Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Saint John-headquartered North Shore Mi’kmaq District Council has inked $3 million worth of investment deals with two makers of next-generation nuclear reactors.

The two nuclear

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster has announced a raft of new artificial intelligence-related research and development deals with the private sector, including a $10.5 million, six-company group working on environmental assessments for tidal energy

The Prince Edward Island BioAlliance has become the first North American group to receive the Gold Label of Cluster Management Excellence by the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis.

The Charlottetown-based group, which brings together

Energia Ventures, the Fredericton-based accelerator affiliated with University of New Brunswick, launched its 10th cohort this week, with five participants from as far away as  Israel.

Energia is hosted by the university’s J. Herbert Smith Centre

Chester, N.S.-based circular economy company Sustane has won Canadian Food Inspection Agency approval for its organic GroBoost Fertilizer product as it eyes commercialization.

Sustane has developed technology for repurposing curbside garbage into

Invest Nova Scotia is looking for applicants to its Early Stage Commercialization Fund for university research, which offers startups up to $50,000 of funding.

The money can go towards assessing a product’s market potential, developing go-to-market

The Ghost Gear Fund, a federally funded program, has contributed $551,270 to Ocean Legacy Foundation to assist Nova Scotia in the clean up after Hurricane Fiona which struck the region a year ago.

B.C.-based Ocean Legacy Foundation is a Canadian

The U.S. manufacturing partner of Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics has won Food and Drug Administration approval to sell Appili’s liquid formulation of the common antibiotic metronidazole under the name LIKMEZ.

The news comes just

Halifax-based SkinFix has divested its SweetSpot Labs line of women’s health products in a deal with Miami-based private equity shop AOI Capital.

Launched in California in 2003 by entrepreneur Shari Creed, SweetSpot was bought by SkinFix in 2015 in

Resson, the Fredericton developer of artificial intelligence systems to advise farmers about how to care for crops, has wound up its operations and officially been dissolved by Corporations Canada as of Wednesday, according to a regulatory filing in