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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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Save The Date: VenturePrize 2015 (Apr. 29)
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Save The Date: VenturePrize 2015 (Apr. 29)
Save the date on your calendar: The 2015 TEC VenturePrize business plan competition and awards dinner will take place Wednesday, April 29, at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton.   Details about the 13th annual competition will be announced at the 2015 VenturePrize Launch and Celebration in En...
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Technology Highlights - December 14
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TEC Edmonton helps researchers protect, develop and commercialize new technologies.   New Grants NSERC I2I Phase I grant   TEC Edmonton has worked with Dr. James Harynuk in securing an NSERC I2I Phase I grant worth $125,000 to further the Harynuk group’s arson research and develop a fully fledged...
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Technology Highlights - December 14
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TEC Edmonton helps researchers protect, develop and commercialize new technologies.   New Grants NSERC I2I Phase I grant   TEC Edmonton has worked with Dr. James Harynuk in securing an NSERC I2I Phase I grant worth $125,000 to further the Harynuk group’s arson research and develop a fully fledged...
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Former TEC VenturePrize winner DataGardens featured in Calgary Herald
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An Interesting story in the Calgary Herald, entitled "DataGardens grows corporate IT security in cloud" by technology startup business columnist Lloyed Lobo (published in the Dec. 5, 2014  online newspaper edition) about former TEC Edmonton client and 2008 TEC VenturePrize Fast Growth Competiton ...
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Bloom Burton has high praise for the TEC Edmonton Health Accelerator
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It was what you could realistically call a ringing endorsement of TEC Edmonton’s new TEC Health Accelerator, from Canada’s top health care investment banking firm, no less. “Quite frankly, we first came to Edmonton secretly dreading the pitch we thought we’d hear from TEC,” said Brian Bloom, co-f...
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