On June 6, help us cheer on our finalists as they pitch for the 2019 Rhyze Awards! Register online: https://rhyzeaward.eventbrite.ca The Rhyze Award program not only provides funding for women entrepreneurs to finance their businesses, but the mentoring and support they need at key stages of their development to [...]
"Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something." — Carl Sagan This post is the second in our Taking the Pulse of Local Business [...]
Our MotivationIn order to best help our current and future clients, it is important for us to understand what motivates and challenges businesses when it comes to issues of environmental sustainability. To acquire our desired insight, we reached out to approximately 188 businesses in the Guelph-Wellington area [...]
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, [...]
