Posts Tagged British Columbia

Susan Olivia Poole: An Iconic Woman for the Bank of Canada’s new Banknote

Posted by academicentrepreneur in BC, Business Models, Canada, Commercialisation, First Nations Innovations, Immigrants, Immigration Policy, Intellectual Property, Inventions, Old Knowledge to New Things, Regional Innovation, Schumpeter, Vancouver, Woman Entrepreneurs on March 26, 2016

The Academic Entrepreneur has nominated Susan Olivia Poole (1889-1975), an immigrant slash indigenous slash inventor slash entrepreneur slash mom slash exporter slash musician, as an iconic woman for the new Bank of Canada Bank note to be printed in 2018. The reasons for this nomination are that Susan Olivia Poole was: –An immigrant She was […]

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The Comeback of Hardware in the West

Posted by academicentrepreneur in Business Models, Canada, Hackerspaces, Hardware Incubators, Incubators and Accelerators, Innovation Policy, Old Knowledge to New Things, Regional Innovation, Sooke, Uncategorized on April 11, 2015

The following article was reposted from the Sooke Pocket News and was published on 10-04-2015 The comeback of Hardware Innovation in the West presents opportunities for Sooke Posted on April 10, 2015 by SookePub by Michael Clouser Hardware innovation in the West is coming back. We’ll see a surge of new products being invented, especially […]

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Lessons from Iceland for Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver Island and Sooke

Posted by academicentrepreneur in alternative energies, Canada, China, Cornell University, First Nations Innovations, Green Economy, Higher Education, Horticulture, Iceland, Low Carbon Economy, Old Knowledge to New Things, Sooke, Sustainability, Technology, Triple Helix, University Policy, Victoria on April 11, 2015

This article is reposted from the Sooke Pocket News and was published on 11 April 2015. Lessons from Iceland for Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver Island and Sooke By Michael Clouser With the recent visit by Kinder Morgan to the Sooke Council, and the recent referendum in Sooke regarding the passage of oil tankers through the […]

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