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Passive Design, Active Results: An architecture firm helps fight climate change
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Passive Design Solutions offers stock home building plans and custom architectural home design services to create energy efficient, low-maintenance homes.

Top 10 tips for getting the most from your first virtual trade show (plus a key takeaway!)
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Thinking about participating in a virtual trade show? We've put together our top 10 tips to help you prepare.

Igniting entrepreneurship across Nova Scotia
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Let’s say you need help growing your business, or you have an idea for starting one. Where do you start? You know there are support organizations that can help – but which one? With so many options, it can seem overwhelming at first – especially if you live in a rural area where offices might be geographically spread out. This is where Ignite Labs comes in.

Engineering a better raincoat: a Dalhousie Capstone project story
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
This is the story of what happens when you bring together engineering students and the fashion industry.

Surrette Battery Company: Expanding rural power
Sunday, September 1, 2019
Surrette Battery Company is growing. With the help of NSBI’s Innovation Rebate Program, the company is expanding its Springhill facility and incorporating advanced technologies into its production line. Not only will this increase productivity and capacity, it will help create up to 18 skilled, full-time positions.

In a world of excess plastic bottles, JD Composites found their home
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
With the use of over 600,000 plastic bottles, JD Composites has created the first concept home of its kind.

Nautel: 50 years of worry-free transmission
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
How does a radio transmission company in Nova Scotia reach 50 years of operation? Just ask Nautel.

Atlantic Canada's next wave of ocean tech investment and activity
Monday, January 28, 2019
It’s hard to pick a single year out of centuries of living and working on the ocean, but future Atlantic Canadians may look back on 2018 as one for the books in ocean technology.

Story of the year: Oceans
Monday, July 23, 2018
We see tremendous opportunity in collaboration. The Ocean Supercluster will create an integrated network of relationships amongst industry, regulators, researchers, technology developers, and policy-makers. Canada’s Ocean Supercluster based here in Atlantic Canada will generate $300 million in investment in the next five years. That funding will contribute to changing the capacity for innovation in the region.

Turning the world on its ear
Monday, July 23, 2018
We’re here to stay, we’re here to innovate, we’re here to hire, we’re here to compete, and we’re here to give back to Nova Scotia.