Imagine an event focused on celebrating women, where female entrepreneurs proudly share their wares and guests enjoy a wonderful dinner and an empowering keynote! That’s exactly what Ignite.Empower.Innovate delivered yesterday at the Hanlon Convention Centre in Guelph. Innovation Guelph, with the Partners for International Women’s Day, hosted [...]
Innovation Guelph’s Executive Director, Anne Toner Fung is part of a delegation of eight, with the City of Guelph, heading to the Global Food Summit in Munich, Germany. The Global Food Summit is a scientific conference featuring innovations in the food sector, taking place March 20 [...]
If you’ve read our previous blog post: “Are you protecting your most valuable asset? Why securing your intellectual property matters,” you’ll be familiar with the Canadian Government’s Intellectual Property Strategy. How does this strategy apply in the gig economy where it’s more common for freelancers and contractors [...]
We would like to introduce the round five Fuel Injection companies that have been selected from the 81 who applied. [...]
Puerto Vicente Guerrero is a small Mexican fishing community on the Pacific Ocean, about three hours away by car from Acapulco. It’s where Niel Palmer, a Core Mentor with Innovation Guelph, hooked one of his most memorable catches: a 50-pound rooster fish. “It took about 40 minutes [...]
Earlier this year, the Government of Canada announced a new strategy to help Canadians innovate, reach commercial success and create more jobs. It isn’t business training or more investment capital for entrepreneurs, though. Instead, the strategy is all about intellectual property (IP). Named the Intellectual Property Strategy, [...]
Joni Lien started SupperWorks with a very simple premise: to give families a little more “together time” in an increasingly busy world. What she didn’t realize? While she was helping her customers establish a better work-life balance, she was sacrificing her own. She remembered lying in bed, [...]
When Linda Horowitz’s son started learning drums, she decided she’d take lessons too. So, she picked up the bongos and djembe, a west African hand drum. The same thing happened when her kids started skiing. And scuba diving. “I said, why am I sitting here watching? I [...]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister Navdeep Bains each sent messages of encouragement and support; while MP Lloyd Longfield announced that Innovation Guelph and Bioenterprise will receive an additional $2.8 million to continue their partnership in delivering federal seed funding programs to [...]
Agriculture in Canada is kind of a big deal. It generates $113.8 billion, or 6.6% of our national GDP, according to the Agricultural Institute of Canada. It accounts for one in every eight jobs in Canada. As a country, we’re the fifth largest exporter of agri-food products [...]
