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Turning Research into Innovation: SFU, UBC Help Launch Lab2Market Pacific Hub

January 16, 2025 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

In 2020, Dalhousie University partnered with Toronto Metropolitan University to pilot Lab2Market. Over the four-year pilot, Lab2Market delivered the program to participants from every province, reaching over 1,000 participants from 40 academic institutions across Canada, with more than 125 companies started by participants after completing the program. Post-pilot, Lab2Market has been awarded more than $32 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Lab2Market, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, UBC, VentureLabs

Why the Cleantech Industry Dominated Headlines in B.C. Through 2024

December 19, 2024 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

British Columbia continues to be a hotspot for innovation in the clean technology field. The province is anchored by the Vancouver area, which KPMG regards as a world-class cleantech cluster. There are hundreds of cleantech firms across the region. And we’ll mention dozens in this article alone as we highlight some of the year’s top […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arca Climate Technologies, UBC

Canada Pours $12M into Six B.C. Projects Advancing Local Cleantech Innovation

November 29, 2024 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

Carbon management technologies and alternative clean fuel sources play an important role in the decarbonization and competitiveness of Canada’s economy, the federal government believes, and says it is working to strengthen the country’s advantages in these areas. Canada announced $12 million in investments targeting clean technology projects in British Columbia, including $5M for Squamish-based Carbon […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arca Climate Technologies, Carbon Engineering, Highbury Energy, UBC

Circular Biotech Startup Mycofoundry is Growing Furniture from Mushrooms

November 21, 2024 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

A studio based in Vancouver is building a business around growing furniture rather than manufacturing it. Mycofoundry combines a “deep knowledge of spatial design” with modern bio-technology to build “enduring furnishings in partnership with nature.” The B.C. startup creates its products out of mycelium, which it describes as “an organism rooted in circularity.” More specifically, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Mycofoundry, UBC

Immersion Week at UBC: Innovators and Storytellers Unite to Drive Change

September 17, 2024 by Robert Lewis Leave a Comment

Immersion Week, powered by Innovation UBC, is coming up September 24-25 at UBC Robson Square. This annual celebration promises to bring together storytellers and movement builders from across the Vancouver ecosystem to share their insights on the strategies and tactics that helped them transform their innovation and ideas to impact. This year’s theme is Translating Inventions […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arca, CarboNet, entrepreneurship@UBC, SereGene Therapeutics, UBC, VulcanX

UBC Receives $9M from PacifiCan to Launch Two State-of-the-Art Innovation Spaces

August 15, 2024 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

The Government of Canada is supporting collaboration between industry and academia in an effort to bring more B.C.-made products to global markets. Through the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada’s Regional Innovation Ecosystems program, federal minister Harjit Sajjan this week announced nearly $9 million in funding for two projects based out of the University of […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: PacifiCan, UBC

Powered by Government Funding, UBC to Add 800 Spaces Across Tech, Science

April 15, 2024 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

The University of British Columbia is adding nearly 800 new spaces for its technology-related programs, the post-secondary institution announced this month. The significant expansion of UBC’s tech talent pipeline is partially powered by funding from the B.C. government. A grand total of $23 million was promised by the government, which will contribute to the addition […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: UBC, UBC - Okanagan

How Genomics Could Boost Resilience of Province’s Fragile Shellfish Industry

March 26, 2024 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

The shellfish industry is a salient component of British Columbia’s economy. This is particularly true in the Comox and Deep Bay area, a region which produces two-thirds of the province’s oyster production. But if fecal pollution is detected in BC waters, harvesting areas are shut down immediately. It’s a problem, and one exasperated by the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: BC Centre for Disease Control, Genome BC, UBC

UBC Receives $4M from Alberta to Innovate Carbon Fibre Technology

December 11, 2023 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

Alberta is investing $15 million across five Western Canadian organizations in order to help boost regional advancements in carbon fibre production technologies. Alberta Innovates and Emissions Reduction Alberta announced this week the funded projects representing Phase III of the region’s Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge. “Carbon Fibre is a significant opportunity . . . to diversify […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: NORAM Engineering, UBC

UBC Research Questions Risk-Reward Ratio of Popular Weight Loss Drug

October 10, 2023 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

A medical student at the University of British Columbia was motivated to learn more about adverse drug effects following an emergency room case where a man was vomiting up to 20 times per day. “Doctors couldn’t figure out what was causing it,” he recalls in an interview with CNN, “until they noticed he was taking […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: UBC

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