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"Just do it! Enter VenturePrize! If you stumble and fall, get up, and enter again!" VenturePrize winner Meghan Dear of Localize Your Food
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The deadline to enter the all-Alberta 2015 VenturePrize Business Plan Competition is but six days away!  Entries must be submitted by midnight, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, including a business plan for your company. Up for grabs is over $200,000 in prizes, for any innovation-based start-up or early s...
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Technology Highlights (Feb. 2015)
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TEC Edmonton helps researchers protect, develop and commercialize new technologies.   New Patents Bacteriophage Compositions for Treatment of Bacterial Infections U.S. Patent No. 8,889,105 - Dr. Jonathan Dennis, Dr. Warren Finlay, Dr. Kimberley Seed, Helena Orszanska, Dr. Karlene Lynch   On Nove...
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Deloitte's Technology, Media & Telecommunications trends forecaster Duncan Stewart places his bets for 2015
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The always entertaining Duncan Stewart, head crystal ball gazer for Deloitte, was back in Edmonton last month at a full-house breakfast as part of his annual TMT (Technology, Media & Telecommunications) Predictions 2015 tour. Stewart’s talks follow a standard pattern: ·         A report card on t...
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Persistence pays off for Alvin Xu and AltaCarbon
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Persistence pays off for Alvin Xu and AltaCarbon
Alvin Xu, right, with partner Geoff Bekavas (left) and U of A business advisor Prof. Tony Briggs.   Photo by Leah Holoiday, courtesy Metro News. Alvin (Shaochen) Xu is the stuff entrepreneurs are made of. Still in his ’20s, facing a multitude of challenges, he continues to grow his promising new ...
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TEC VenturePrize Seminars Continue With "Your Product - Industry & Market Analysis"
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TEC VenturePrize mid-day seminars continue this Thursday, January 29, with Your Product – Industry & Market Analysis / Opportunities & Risk / Operational 5 Year Plan, presented by TEC Executives-in-Residence Kevin Ens and Ken Boutillier. Don’t miss this low-cost solution to brushing up your busin...
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TEC VenturePrize Seminars Start Jan. 23
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TEC VenturePrize mid-day seminars start this Friday!!! Don’t miss this low-cost solution to brushing up your business skills, while minimizing time away from your startup company! TEC Edmonton presents The TEC VenturePrize mid-day seminars (11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.), kicking off this Friday, Jan. ...
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TEC VenturePrize Seminars Launch
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TEC VenturePrize mid-day seminars start this Friday!!! Don’t miss this low-cost solution to brushing up your business skills, while minimizing time away from your startup company! TEC Edmonton presents The TEC VenturePrize mid-day seminars (11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.), kicking off this Friday, Jan. ...
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TEC VenturePrize - Far More Than A Competition
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If you’re thinking about entering your startup company in TEC Edmonton’s 2015 TEC VenturePrize Business Plan Competition, read on.
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TEC VenturePrize - Far More Than A Competition
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If you’re thinking about entering your startup company in TEC Edmonton’s 2015 TEC VenturePrize Business Plan Competition, read on.
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From U of A local Falling Walls research competition, Nermeen Youssef finishes second in the world at Berlin
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An excellent story in the YouAlberta Student Life blog entitled  Winning! How Young Academics Are making History at Falling Walls. It's about the three winning student research projects from the Falling Walls Edmonton Lab in September.  As winners, Nermeen Youssef, Zach Storms and D...
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