Bedtime reading for my 6-year-old son last week included a children’s book on space exploration by Mary Kay Carson. As I read out loud to him, one thing that caught my attention in this nicely done tome was the similarities in the childhoods of two pioneers in space rocketry, Konstantin ...

UPDATE: The Clean 15 website has been swamped with traffic the past few days, which has caused some technical difficulties in processing online applications. Those who submitted applications over the past three days need to re-apply by emailing info@clean15.com to receive an application form in Word format. Fill it out ...

Today Canadian Business and Drayton Weissenfels Inc. are kicking off the first ever Clean 15 competition in order to help aspiring clean tech companies bring their technology to market.

The goalie mask is as Canadian an idea as they come. Indeed, 71% of Canadians know that a fellow Canuck invented the face-saving device, according to a recent survey of 1,508 people by Leger Marketing.

Despite the economic uncertainty, companies aren't giving up on innovation. Although executives must be sorely tempted to focus on the severe and ever-changing challenges of the here-and-now, it seems that they are for the most part taking to heart the idea that research and development budgets should be protected from cost-cutting ...

The goalie mask is as Canadian an idea as they come. Indeed, 71% of Canadians know that a fellow Canuck invented the face-saving device, according to a recent survey of 1,508 people by Leger Marketing.

Journalists are inundated with press releases, but a sure-fire way to catch the attention of a scribe of the techie variety is to drop a Star Trek reference. Such is the case with a press release that landed in my inbox from the Canadian Triticale Biorefinery Initiative (CTBI) the other ...

Ontario's Ministry of Research and Innovation unveiled a new $250-million plan today to stimulate the province's moribund venture capital industry. You can read my story on the initiative here. Please comment below—whether you're an early-stage investor, entrepreneur, or just concerned about the innovation economy, I would like to hear your ...

Last week I interviewed Ottawa-based entrepreneur Terry Matthews as the national spokesperson for the Canada Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) and its "Innovation Nation" platform. While you can read his full lament for the state of that particular nation here, I wanted to highlight one comment:

I was gladdened to see Rudolph Kriegler named on July 1 to the Order of Canada. Kriegler, now a retiree at 75, was the gentle scientist credited with pioneering the fiber-optics line at Nortel Networks during the 1980s and early 1990s. To do this he “at times put his own ...