The Victoria-based Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies, or COAST, is getting a $2 million funding boost from the British Columbia government via its Innovative Clean Energy Fund.

Created in 2021 and operated by regional business group

Invest Nova Scotia, the provincial agency formed from the amalgamation of Innovacorp and Nova Scotia Business Inc., has a president and CEO: NSBI veteran Peter MacAskill.

Since the merger last summer, Invest Nova Scotia has been headed by minister

National industry group the Ocean Startup Project is seeking applicants to its new cleantech competition, held under a partnership with the municipalities of Port Alberni, BC, Rimouski, QC and Yarmouth, NS.

The Ocean Communities Climate Challenge

Reflecting on her four years as executive director of Dalhousie University’s DeepSense hub for artificial intelligence in the blue economy as she prepares for a move to Canada’s Ocean Supercluster, Jennifer LaPlante highlights her work giving

Research Nova Scotia is spending $1.1 million to continue a Dalhousie University wastewater testing program that used sewage to track the spread of COVID-19 during the depths of the pandemic.

Researchers from the Centre for Water Resources Studies,

In preparing our latest Canadian oceantech report, one thing that has been striking is the swift evolution of a national network of accelerators for early-stage oceantech startups.

Five years ago, any Canadian bluetech entrepreneur looking for a

Halifax-based conference organizer Jameson Group is looking for cleantech startups to compete in a pitch challenge at its 19th annual Smart Energy Event, attended by a roster of about 400 national delegates from the smart energy industry.

Winning

On Thursday, specialty software-maker Notch Embedded won the $25,000 grand prize at the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship’s Woodward Cup student pitch competition in St. John's, with waste management AI startup SmartBin Technologies taking home

The St. John’s-based Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, or MCE, will hand out $40,000 in prize money to companies founded by Memorial University students during its Mel Woodward Cup pitch competition, to be held today, March 23.

The event, to be

The Halifax Partnership is launching a new construction technology accelerator under a partnership with the city of Guelph, Ontario and the Vancouver Economic Commission.

The National Construction and Demolition Circular Innovation Challenge, or

The Dartmouth-based Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship and Thales Canada, a division of French satellite imaging giant Thales Group, will run two naval innovation challenges this spring with prizes of $175,000 each.

The first challenge

New Brunswick's Joint Economic Development Initiative, or JEDI, the Indigenous economic development organization, has launched a directory of First Nations businesses, along with its own e-commerce shop.

Indigeshop, as JEDI has dubbed its