Between research and commercialization lie the critical stages of development and demonstration: the points at which technologies leave the laboratory and undergo conclusive real-world testing.
Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) supports clean-technology projects through these […]
As an early-stage entrepreneur, whenever you leave the bat-cave for air and sunlight, you are almost always pitching. Whether it’s on stage with life-changing VCs, in a boardroom with a sales lead, or convincing your spouse not to leave you because your pursuit is deemed crazy, the pitch will […]
Calgary’s Hatsize Corporation was selected as the Forum Favourite for Best Company in the Information Technology category at 13th annual Canadian Financing Forum held in Vancouver last week. Also in the IT category, Victoria’s Advanced E-Commerce Research Systems was selected as the Best Early […]
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) recently launched a new initiative, the Strategy for Partnerships and Innovation (SPI) to make it easier for local companies performing R&D to collaborate with academia. As part of SPI, NSERC has created a new […]
According to the Conference Board of Canada’s latest How Canada Performs report card, Canada continues to be a “D” performer on innovation ranking in 14th place among 17 peer countries. On the 12 indicators used to measure innovation performance, Canada gets one “B”, two […]
Great article in the Financial Post today by Karen Mazurkewich titled VC firms wake up to new tech deals which chronicles Rick Segal’s transition from VC to mobile startup.
Rick Segal — the entrepreneur — has had a quick liftoff. Mr. Segal, who was with the BlackBerry Partners Fund until last […]
Greg Nisbet, CEO of Canadian digital music firm Mediazoic, recently spoke to students at renowned music business school Nimbus in Vancouver about how Canadian innovators can compete more easily today on the global stage than ever before. This is a transcript of his presentation titled “Canada’s […]
In the early days of Indochino.com, just the idea of someone investing in my business partner and I’s company was amazing! I got lucky and stumbled into some awesome angels. In retrospect, here are a few things I would look out for when finding angels for a future startup:
Look […]
Four ‘gorillas’ sit at the intersection of the future of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT): economic transformation; demographics and societal change; resource pressures; and accelerating technological progress.
Couple that with faster production cycles, global competition, tight […]
Alexis Milinusic wrote this guest post for Techvibes to explain what Cybera and The University of Calgary are up to!
If you have ever had a computer stolen, or a file mistakenly erased, then you understand that computers are not any more secure for storing private information than a backpack or a […]