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Innovation Opportunity in Canada
Canada is well situated to develop and export disruptive technology in many different industries, but especially in the natural resources sector. Canadian businesses have leading global roles in the mining, oil and gas, and forestry domains and Canada has a political...
IT Opportunities in Canadian CleanTech
In 2012 the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry consumed 4.6% of worldwide energy and their energy usage was growing more than 2.5 times faster than global energy consumption as a whole. The explosion of computing devices, servers and networking...
Strength in Vancouver’s CleanTech Cluster
Vancouver CleanTech is strong, punching well above its weight in its contribution to CleanTech in Canada. CleanTech / Green Technologies developing in Vancouver include systems that drive the conversion of wood waste into biogas and biofuels, hydrogen fuel...
Ontario CleanTech Climate Action Plan
Earlier this week, Alacrity had the pleasure of hosting Pat White from L-Spark in Ottawa. L-Spark, an Alacrity Partner, is a leading Ontario Technology Incubator & Accelerator, focused on Enterprise SaaS. While discussing L-Spark’s companies, and the...
Vancouver’s Sustainable IT / CleanTech Cluster
Vancouver has a strong entrepreneurship ecosystem, and Vancouver’s entrepreneurship ecosystem is especially strong when it comes to sustainable technology or “CleanTech”. Punching well above its weight in its contribution to CleanTech in Canada, the data clearly...
Canadian CleanTech – a Competitive Advantage
The Government of Canada recently assigned $800 million for developing CleanTech innovation clusters and networks. To ensure a successful return on the government’s investment, startups need to be in a location where they have access to expertise, investment...
The Impact of the 2016 Federal Budget on Canada’s Tech Sector
The Canadian Federal government budget for 2016 was recently released. In it, the Liberals plan to dedicate resources to innovative tech sectors, with a particular focus on cleantech. Significant amounts of money will also be contributed to research and new facilities...
Developing Sustainable Innovation Solutions
Day two of the BC Tech Summit includes a talk on the opportunities that the cleantech sector has to make resource-based industries better, cheaper, and cleaner. In tune with the COP21 agreement, governments from around the world will be working to transition to a low...
