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Dalhousie University’s MINDI hub makes microelectronic hardware development accessible for Nova Scotia innovators
Four years ago, in March 2021, then-premier Iain Rankin said he wanted to make Nova Scotia “a world-leading startup capital.” The statement came in a release from the premier’s office, announcing increased funding for university-level computer science programs. “World-leading startup capital” may be political hyperbole, but over the last decade or so the province has seen an increase in incubators and accelerators and hubs and catalysts and collaborative communities with ever-more-creative names.
Despite all that activity, Gordon Harling says there’s still a gap when it comes to connecting the work of researchers to the companies that can take advantage of their discoveries. “That’s a Canadian thing,” he says from the Munich airport, on his way to giving a keynote at the startup-focussed InnoVEX conference in Taiwan. “We spend a lot of money on research and not so much on commercialization.”
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