By Isabelle Kirkwood A new program aimed to help researchers validate and find commercial value in their ideas has officially launched at three Canadian universities. The Lab2Market program was developed to support researchers working in deep technology sectors. Read more…

By Evan Klippenstein EDMONTON — Alberta post-secondary students will have more internship opportunities thanks to a partnership between the Government of Alberta and Mitacs. The $15-million investment will create 1,275 internships a year for three years in key economic sectors identified in the Government of Alberta’s Recovery Plan. Read more…

By Jennifer Lewington When Cody Littlefield decided on a career pivot last January, he chose a master of business administration degree as a reliable way to leapfrog from one industry to another. The 32-year-old former United States Army logistics officer, married to a Canadian and working part-time in Toronto, is considering pursuing a career in […]

By CanadianSME Team It’s natural for small- and medium-sized businesses to cut back to the essentials during an economic crisis like the one we’re experiencing right now. Yet SMEs that find a way to innovate and ramp up investment in R&D when their competitors are retreating are more likely to be Canada’s entrepreneurial success stories […]

By Kayla Isabelle and John Hepburn As Canada rebuilds a stronger economy in the coming months and years, many individuals and organizations will have a role to play. But a select few—our entrepreneurial disruptors and innovators—will make an outsized contribution. The efforts and successes of these creative thinkers will have far-reaching impacts. As we plan […]

By Derrick Penner Vancouver startup has devised a system that marries artificial intelligence and big data with the age-old craft of wine making that they bet will save British Columbia’s wineries thousands of hours of labour and millions of dollars. Read here…

Sheamus MacDonald has been virtually presented with the Mitacs Global Impact Entrepreneur Award A local entrepreneur has received a prestigious award. Sheamus MacDonald has been presented with the Mitacs Global Impact Entrepreneur Award. His start-up, Dartmouth-based Sedna Technologies, has launched a high-tech mobile system that aims to reduce seafood waste by following the catch through all […]

Miayan Yeremi co-founded BarrelWise Technologies to uncork some age-old problems While doing his PhD in mechanical engineering at UBC, Miayan Yeremi was taught that for the best entrepreneurial results, you must seek to solve a problem in an industry rather than create something to chase an issue that might not actually exist. Seems simple, of course, […]

By Adam Kovac MONTREAL — A Montreal scientist’s invention is gaining attention for the role it could play in the fight against COVID-19. Read here…

Not so long ago people would say Sheamus MacDonald has fishing in his blood. These days, however, MacDonald, 30, would more than likely be described as tech entrepreneur, albeit focused on the fishery sector. He’s the CEO of a Dartmouth-based startup, Sedna Technologies, which is developing systems that help optimize the supply chain in the […]

Azadeh Dastmalchi’s search for a user-friendly blood pressure test triggered a decade-long research effort that ultimately spawned a groundbreaking wearable device and led the University of Ottawa PhD candidate to launch her own company. On Wednesday, the biomedical engineering student and budding entrepreneur earned some well-deserved time in the spotlight. Dastmalchi received the Mitacs Social […]

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, 34-year-old Azadeh Dastmalchi found a new function for her existing work on a medical-grade smartwatch to detect and monitor for early virus symptoms. Dastmalchi’s start-up, Montreal-based VitalTracer, and its product the VTLAB smartwatch combines biosensors and artificial intelligence to measure human vital signs, blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory […]