Where the heavens once provoked wonder, many now simply wonder about the environmental consequences of doing business in space.
Organization: Amazon
Billion-Dollar Babies: Previan’s innovation driven by customers
Team True North’s “billion-dollar babies”: Q&A with Martin Thériault, founder and CEO of Previan, a Quebec-based industrial technology focused on customer-driven innovation.
Opinion: Canada’s service sectors are poised for a tectonic shift
Canada needs to be prepared for the “tectonic shift” of intangibles powering new ways of delivering services that contribute more than three-quarters of Canada’s GDP, Bert van den Berg writes in an op-ed.
The Short Report, Sept 11, 2019: Genome lab, industrial IoT, ecommerce
The federal government and the province of Quebec are teaming up to fund the creation and operation of a Montreal-based international centre of expertise for the advancement of artificial intelligence, focused on the responsible and ethical development of AI technologies, as part of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI). Ottawa is committing $10 million over five…
Drones help drive diversification of Alberta’s economy
Calgary and Alberta are leading the country in developing and deploying drones, as a strategy to diversify the province’s economy, but the industry says more federal support is needed.
Cloud Computing Pioneer TriNimbus Technologies Acquired by Onica
Recognizing the rapidly growing cloud computing space in Canada, Santa Monica-based cloud consulting and managed services company, Onica, will be adding Vancouver-based TriNimbus Technologies to its roster. TriNimbus Technologies is a leading DevOps specialist and Canada’s first Premier Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). This acquisition cements Onica’s relationship with…
Research Money ≠ Research Effort
Expenditure-based measures have been the most successful and best used indicator of innovation to date because the data can be collected with minimal effort and maximum accuracy (not perfect) and interpreted without huge complexities.
Editorial – 32-1
It’s been a promising start to the New Year with several substantive announcements that are hopefully an indication of more to come with forthcoming federal and provincial budgets.
Canadian VC firms can learn from US counterparts to become less risk averse
As the Canadian investment market continues to be conservative in their investment strategies, startups can expect a mix of local and global investors joining forces to fund them.
GTA bid for second Amazon HQ underway
Mayors in the Greater Toronto Area have mobilized to formalize their bid to woo internet giant Amazon to consider Toronto as its next North American headquarters. Mayors of Toronto, Mississauga and Brampton are joined by the chief executives of the regions of Durham, Halton and York to prepare to submit a proposal to Amazon. Mark…
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December 12, 2018: Requiem for a National Network Program
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