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Mitacs and SFU’s Invention to Innovation (i2I) helps graduate researchers across Canada develop an entrepreneurial mindset and become champions of innovation Vancouver, BC — Mitacs and the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University (SFU Beedie) have renewed a partnership to offer the Invention to Innovation (i2I) program for graduate students. Over seven months, […]

Memorandums of understanding support research collaboration and mobility Vancouver, BC — Canadian and Colombian higher education organizations signed two important agreements today which will improve student mobility and heighten research collaboration between the two countries. Higher education and research partnerships are a critical part of the Canada-Colombia bilateral relationship. The agreement between Universities Canada and […]

Sheamus MacDonald has been virtually presented with the Mitacs Global Impact Entrepreneur Award A local entrepreneur has received a prestigious award. Sheamus MacDonald has been presented with the Mitacs Global Impact Entrepreneur Award. His start-up, Dartmouth-based Sedna Technologies, has launched a high-tech mobile system that aims to reduce seafood waste by following the catch through all […]

Miayan Yeremi co-founded BarrelWise Technologies to uncork some age-old problems While doing his PhD in mechanical engineering at UBC, Miayan Yeremi was taught that for the best entrepreneurial results, you must seek to solve a problem in an industry rather than create something to chase an issue that might not actually exist. Seems simple, of course, […]

By Adam Kovac MONTREAL — A Montreal scientist’s invention is gaining attention for the role it could play in the fight against COVID-19. Read here…

By John Hepburn When innovation stops or stalls and graduates from advanced degrees lack opportunities to join industry and drive economic growth, prospects for those businesses and Canadians’ quality of life are at risk. Read more…  

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, 34-year-old Azadeh Dastmalchi found a new function for her existing work on a medical-grade smartwatch to detect and monitor for early virus symptoms. Dastmalchi’s start-up, Montreal-based VitalTracer, and its product the VTLAB smartwatch combines biosensors and artificial intelligence to measure human vital signs, blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory […]

Azadeh Dastmalchi’s search for a user-friendly blood pressure test triggered a decade-long research effort that ultimately spawned a groundbreaking wearable device and led the University of Ottawa PhD candidate to launch her own company. On Wednesday, the biomedical engineering student and budding entrepreneur earned some well-deserved time in the spotlight. Dastmalchi received the Mitacs Social […]

Not so long ago people would say Sheamus MacDonald has fishing in his blood. These days, however, MacDonald, 30, would more than likely be described as tech entrepreneur, albeit focused on the fishery sector. He’s the CEO of a Dartmouth-based startup, Sedna Technologies, which is developing systems that help optimize the supply chain in the […]

By Food in Canada Staff Vancouver entrepreneur Miayan Yeremi has launched new technology that gives winemakers the unprecedented opportunity to know exactly what’s going on behind the wooden slats of each oak barrel in a wine cellar. Read here…

UOttawa PhD candidate has made a groundbreaking medical-grade smartwatch. The first of it’s kind to continuously measure all five vital signs and provide cardiac monitoring on one device. Now the invention has earned her a prestigious award from a national non-profit. Watch here…

COVID-19 economic recovery depends upon innovation and small businesses Vancouver, BC — Mitacs recognizes five up-and-coming researchers-turned-entrepreneurs for their groundbreaking innovations that are helping to propel Canada’s economy forward — and ultimately, improve the lives of Canadians — amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mitacs Entrepreneur Awards celebrate start-up companies founded by outstanding former Mitacs interns, […]