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Nova Scotia's strengths are highlighted by business and government leaders travelling to Ottawa for meetings and speaking engagements.

North America's closest shipping links to Europe and to rapidly growing parts of Asia. More than 1,400 cutting-edge information and communication technology companies. Four communities on the country's top 10 list for best locations to do business.

Innovacorp and a few of its clients are featured in the Autumn 2006 edition of Open to the World magazine. Check out the stories here. (Reproduced with permission from Progress Corp.)

Innovacorp’s three business incubation facilities in Halifax-Dartmouth have been linked through a high-capacity fibre-optic telecommunications network spanning the Halifax Harbour. Innovacorp clients, made up of early stage companies, will soon benefit from advanced data and voice services typically only accessible by larger companies.

Saint Mary's University researcher earns early stage commercialization funding.

Saint Mary’s Industry Liaison Office (ILO) collaborated with Dr. Robert Singer (Chemistry Department) earlier this year in preparing an application for an early stage commercialization fund provided by Nova Scotia’s Office for Economic Development and Innovacorp.

Innovacorp is a proud partner in BioPort Atlantic 2006, happening September 26-27, 2006, at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel.

Innovacorp is the proud host of CABI 2006, happening in Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 24-26, 2006.

The Canadian Association of Business Incubation (CABI) is holding its 15th annual conference this week in Halifax, for the first time in the conference’s history. Happening September 24-26, the gathering will showcase some of the province’s most promising entrepreneurs and innovators.

DementiaGuide Inc. today released a new web application, SymptomGuide™, to help people with dementia and their caregivers.

SymptomGuide™ is an online application for tracking and managing symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. It is now available at WWW.DEMENTIAGUIDE.CA.

EastMed Inc., a medical device company based in Halifax, has secured $1.5 million in initial financing from Innovacorp and BDC Venture Capital’s Technology Seed Investments fund, a division of the Business Development Bank of Canada.

A Halifax-based medical technology company has closed a $4 million round of financing with a syndicate of international and regional investors. Innovacorp and Canadian International Capital Inc. participated in the current offering as follow-on investors.