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Innovacorp helps high potential early stage Nova Scotia companies commercialize their technologies and succeed in the global marketplace. Our High Performance Incubation (HPi)™ business model incorporates incubation infrastructure, business mentoring, and seed and venture capital investment. HPi is recognized internationally as a best practice technology commercialization approach.

Armstrong Textiles of Dartmouth is pleased to announce that they have been awarded a contract to weave, fabricate, and install draperies in the new 32-storey Telus Tower in Toronto in May 2010.

The contract requires production of approximately 600 metres of highly-textured, white, semi-transparent fabric draperies to be installed in the Telus Hosting Centre.

Immunovaccine Inc.(TSX-V:IMV), a vaccine development company, announced today that it has signed a collaborative agreement with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a principal teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School.

SimplyCast.com, a leading provider of interactive marketing software and services for organizations worldwide, is pleased to announce the launch of its survey marketing service.

Innovacorp has once again been named one of two finalists in the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) Incubation Program of the Year - 2010 competition.

The award recognizes the world's best methods to help new companies commercialize innovations and overcome hurdles to business growth. Innovacorp is a finalist alongside Emerging Technology Centers in Baltimore, Maryland.

Immunovaccine Inc. (TSX-V: IMV) today announced that it has started screening patients for its Phase I clinical trial, investigating the company’s therapeutic cancer vaccine, DPX-0907, as a treatment for patients with advanced stage breast, ovarian and prostate cancer.

EastMed Inc., an Atlantic Canadian medical manufacturing company that caters specifically to women's health and wellness, now has national health coverage for the uresta® Continence Care product.

SimplyCast.com, a leading provider of multi-channel interactive marketing software and services, is pleased to announce the launch of the first and only 7-in-1 marketing platform in the world.

Innovacorp today, Mar. 9, announced Dan MacDonald is leaving his role as the organization’s president and CEO to pursue an opportunity in the private sector. The interim leader will be Stephen Hartlen, vice president with Innovacorp.

On February 9, 2010, more than 250 Nova Scotians celebrated innovation and entrepreneurship in the province at the World Trade and Convention Centre in downtown Halifax. That evening, Innovacorp announced Tether as the provincial winner of the I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition, and celebrated the 1st and 2nd place award winners from the competition's five provincial zones.