The efficacy of business accelerators and incubators (BAIs) in advancing innovation is consistently challenged by a variety of players (e.g. media, funders, entrepreneurs, etc.) and it is very difficult to gather defensible evidence beyond anecdotal. CAIN, seen as a representative voice of BAI’s in Canada, is frequently approached to defend the value of BAI’s. BAI’s […]

The aim of this project is to determine whether renewable natural gas (RNG) is a feasible low carbon intensity (CI) fuel alternative which can be produced using existing production technologies (anaerobic digestion) and farm waste (corn silage and/or wheat, barley, oat straw) at an economically feasible cost within Canada. Driven by the introduction of Canada’s […]

When stars like our Sun reach the end of their lives, they become giants and eject a lot of their initial mass through a slow, dense outflow. These winds are driven by microscopic solid particles (dust grains) that condense in the cool stellar atmospheres. The dust is the product of a large number of chemical […]

Current therapies to manage pain either result in side effects or are insufficient and the associated medical costs and loss of work days come pose a tremendous socioeconomic burden. We recently showed that T-type channel activity is aberrantly regulated in inflammatory and neuropathic pain by the deubiquitinase USP5, and we have begun to explore this […]

Lumiio is recruiting a Business Development Intern to support our business development, product strategy, marketing, operations, and executive leadership team. The Intern will be joining the Lumiio team during a pivotal time in the company as we scale our operations and expand our product offering and global customer base. The Business Development Intern will guide […]

Lumiio’s purpose is to empower health communities through disruptive technology, combined with classical research methods at every level, to ultimately improve health and quality of life. This Business development intern will help Lumiio improve its operational processes to that are required for marketing to new and existing clients, inform sales strategies, and generate data needed […]

Willing People Inc is developing GetBizzy App – an app-based job portal that aims to lower the barriers to jobs and help newcomers to find jobs easily in Canada. This project is to help the company digitize the current operation processes and set up the proper email & sms marketing systems to communicate with its […]

Circle Neurovascular Imaging (Circle NVI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Circle Cardiovascular Imaging (Circle CVI) and a joint venture with the Calgary Stroke Program, is building a software as a service business aimed at providing physicians with an acute stroke decision aid tool, StrokeSENS™ that will leverage artificial intelligence (AI), advanced image-processing, and network connectivity […]

Healthy Cow is an agriculture biotechnology company with a primary focus on the dairy industry, although its research is applicable to all livestock. All of Healthy Cow’s research is based on healthy metabolome and microbiome.Healthy Cow has worked over the last five years to advance research out of the University of Alberta. The first technology […]

Wastewater testing can measure levels of COVID-19 in a population that is contributing to the sewer system being monitored. This testing provides an early warning signal of the burden of COVID-19 in municipalities, independent of clinical testing. Calgary based start-up company C.E.C. Analytics (CEC) has developed a compact wastewater autosampler that enables this kind of […]

Digitization and technology are becoming crucial to understanding and meeting customer needs, and ultimately surviving in this rapidly changing marketplace. As such, Criterium has recognized the need to build a more robust, innovative, and competitive consulting capability around digital transformation (a marketing and organizational innovation project). This is crucial for Criterium’s economic viability and growth […]

Learn the legal and regulatory obligations of companies that handle electronic patient health information (ePHI) and personal data as business associates or data processors of data custodians. For ePHI, my internship will focus on the requirements of the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) because the company’s customer base is mostly in […]