How to train your commercialization dragon
 TEC Edmonton’s team has years of experience in moving technology to the marketplace. With this expertise comes lessons learned, and here are the “TEC Tips.”
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Personalizing breast cancer therapy
 Why do cancer therapies work better for some then others? Dr. Ing Swie Goping, assistant professor for the Department of Biochemistry, discovered the possibility of personalizing the treatment of breast cancer.
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Leveraging Technical Expertise Locally
Leveraging Technical Expertise Locally (LTEL) was a pilot partnership project with TEC Edmonton that had two objectives.
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Student techopreneurs compete
 Rising to this challenge students across Alberta submitted their business plans in either the northern Centre for Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise (CEFE) or the southern Alberta Student Technology Innovation Challenge (STIC) business plan competitions.
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Future fuel source in cattle renderings
 For David Bressler, a professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Alberta, timing is everything.
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Have you seen the light?
 Glass prisms aren’t the only things that produce colour patterns when light passes through them.
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Seek your own success
.jpg) In under a year from their big TEC VenturePrize win the co-creators of Seek Your Own Proof, have attracted $1 million investment from Foundations Equity II LP and a partnership with Discovery Communications.
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Manipulating the business gene
 Phil Halloran knows first-hand that there’s no easy way to get technology from the lab to market. Luckily, he hasn’t faced that challenge alone.
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Speed dating with a twist
 Have you ever been in the right place at the right time for serendipitous good fortune? Carla Spina, lab manager for Exciton Technologies Inc., had such an experience earlier this year that all started at a “speed dating” event.
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Vaccine Full of Promise
 Systemic fungal infections can cause severe illness and death in patients who suffer from weak, such as people with HIV/AIDS, cancer, or transplants.
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Hope for the dentist-phobic
 If you’re like many people around the world, the mere sight of the dentist’s drill sends chills up your spine – not to mention that long needle used to freeze your mouth.
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Where brick and mortar meet
 At a time when most are watching their pennies, many are turning to e-commerce to make savvy consumer decisions. After all, product information and consumer reviews are a mouse click away.
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TEC VenturePrize boosts budding tech firms
 Before ProExams decided to enter TEC VenturePrize in 2006, Chris LaBossiere and his business partner Don Riep were running their company as a hobby.
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Implant Tracking
 With hundreds of companies selling thousands of products for a multi-stage dental implant surgery, it is no wonder dental surgeons have a hard time keeping track of it all.
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One Sweet Deal
 Dr. Jianhua Zhu, CEO of BioNeutra started his company because he saw a need he could address and make a business of it.
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Beef Genomics
 You have probably heard of the Human Genome Project, where scientists spent years mapping out all the genes in the human body. Well, now researchers are doing the same thing with cattle. One of those researchers is one of our own.
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Lighting up Edmonton
 While most business connections start in boardrooms or conference halls, entrepreneur Guy Meyer and businessman Shaheel Hooda first connected at a birthday party.
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One Room Factory
 Exciton Technologies Inc., a TEC Centre tenant, has developed a machine that infuses silver into bandages.
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CAN Telematics get their "A Game" on
 Brent Moore, the CEO of CAN Telematics Inc., came to TEC Edmonton looking for help with the commercialization of several products. He found that help in the TEC Edmonton team, in particular, Shaheel Hooda, TEC Edmonton’s Libin Executive-in-Residence.
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Unusual vending machine earns TEC VenturePrize Screeners Award of Merit
 Since it first came into use in the 1880s to sell postcards in London, the vending machine has become a convenient way of dispensing everything from bubblegum to gym socks.
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Community support for TEC VenturePrize continues to grow
 Since its inception in 2002, more than 25 organizations now sponsor TEC VenturePrize and support its mission to bolster entrepreneurship in Alberta’s tech sector.
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Revolutionizing diagnostic medicine
 Imagine walking into your doctor’s office for your annual physical, blowing into a machine and, within minutes, finding out that you’ve got breast cancer.
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The finer points of tech entrepreneurship
 Ingenuity 601 and Science to Society help scientists, engineers and other professionals understand the nature of innovation and creating a tech venture.
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Bridging the Gap Between Lab and Market
 When one of the world’s leading cardiologists took a new post at the University of Calgary, he brought along a seedling company that had failed to take root in Germany.
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Improving the 'science-business interface
 Alberta is booming with talented scientists and exciting collaborations, but moving promising ideas out of the laboratory and into the market has continued to pose a challenge, despite the push for economic diversification.
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Internships nurture entrepreneurial spirit in Alberta’s rising stars
 Calgary’s UTI and TEC Edmonton internship programs spark creation of new ventures.
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Tiny silver balls mean big things
 Found on everything from the upholstery of new cars to state-of-the-art bandages, nanosilver’s tremendous value belies its miniscule size. Alberta Nanometals has discovered an economical way to generate small particles of metal on certain surfaces.
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Smartphone solution redefines client care
 Ling Huang, CEO of Technology North know firsthand the value of client care and the necessity for tracking its delivery - his youngest son received special intervention service for autistic syndrome.
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Chemical fingerprint - clue to colon cancer
 Every good detective knows that checking for fingerprints at a crime scene is an important step in finding the culprit. Like a skilled criminal, colon cancer chemical fingerprints that can lead to early detection.
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Tool for pancreatic treatment
 The 40 years of avant-garde cancer research by Dr. Carol Cass, has culminated in a new tool for personalized cancer therapy.
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Biosphere to the rescue
 Recycling, tree planting, carpooling. All over the planet people are taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint; however, mother nature is doing her part too.
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Keeping the bedridden healthy
 Some are born to commercialize, and some have commercialization thrust upon them. Vivian Mushahwar, a biomedical engineer who works in the area of pressure ulcers, was initially indifferent to the market potential for her research.
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Inhale, feel better
 Is it hard for you to swallow a pill? Do needles give you the heebie jeebies? Then Warren Finlay, mechanical engineering professor in the Faculty of Engineering, may have the solution.
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Wrangling research to market
 Getting technology into industry can be as difficult as rounding up a herd of unruly cattle. Luckily TEC Edmonton has the expertise to help drive technology to market in a timely manner.
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And the winners are . . .
 How do you cultivate entrepreneurship in students? Start a contest, encouraging students to think about the potential of their discoveries.
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Oil on ice
 The enormous power of ice, which through its freeze-thaw cycles can destroy roads, bridges and buildings, may soon also help boost oil and gas production.
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Baustista pushes kids online community to the next level
 As a kid, Ken Bautista was a big fan of Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? – an interactive computer game and television show that taught kids about geography.
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Pet project
 Like many entrepreneurs, Gordon McKinlay’s business started with a good solution to a frustrating problem.
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Guidance in Grants
 Dr. Luis Schang, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Alberta, wasn’t sure what to do. He had discovered an antiviral drug for Hepatitis C and other envelope viruses, but he ran out of funding to prove his discovery.
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Adding fuel to fire creates a spin-off
 At TEC Edmonton, our Market Analysts are the fuel and our Executives-in-Residence (EIRs) the fire.
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A student company makes it big
 Only a year into the business, the Ukalta Engineering team has already had their product on its way to the market.
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With expertise comes opportunity
 In December 2008, the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning (AICML) met with TEC Edmonton to decide what commercial applications could be found for the technologies they were developing.
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Growing pains? No problem.
 VibeDx, a potential University of Alberta spin-off company has developed a technology to help back pain sufferers. Dr. Greg Kawchuk Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and inventor of the VibeDx technology has been working with TEC Edmonton to grow the company.
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Some would call this recycling
 Recycling is usually associated with bottles and paper, but it’s also at the core of Dr. David Bressler’s cutting-edge research. He is master at transforming different agricultural byproducts – including wastes from beef production – into value-added products, especially biofuels.
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Glowing proteins find a home with a leading biotech firm
 Anyone who’s ever snorkeled in the ocean has admired the vibrant colours of aquatic creatures like jellyfish and coral – but for Dr. Robert Campbell, it’s the science behind their fluorescence that’s most captivating.
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Tumor starvation technology
 IMBiotechnologies Ltd. (IMBio), a local bio tech company, recently acquired Occlusin® 500 Artificial Embolization Device designed to treat liver cancer, kidney cancer, and uterine fibroids, from Paladin Labs.
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The business of building better
 Ben Bertrand, the founder of Innovequity, started out as just a regular, younger-than-average real estate developer who believed that there had to be a better way to build.
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Desktop searching made easy
 When engineer Mark Rosenberger of Calgary quit his job in telecommunicationsa year ago, his plans were fuzzy. But one thing was crystal clear: he had a solution to a problem that had plagued his work days for years.
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Sun shines on solar energy company
 Like many Albertans, Wouter d’Ailly of Okotoks cares about the environment – for years he dreamt of using alternative energy at home, but was deterred by the cost.
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Site helps students work smarter
 As a business student, James Matsuba was like most students – stuck in poorly paying part-time jobs that didn’t utilize his skills and education, and took up too much time.
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Datagardens
 Datagardens enables a single information technology administrator to build a flexible secure and cost-effective virtual data centre spanning many centres around the world.
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The next step
 When it comes to its incredible anti-microbial properties, silver is worth its weight in gold.
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System can help your computer predict your actions
 EzSeer Inc. has created behavioural recommender software that will allow your computer to passively observe your behaviour patterns to interpret or predict your current interests or intentions.
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Greening Transportation
 It all started when Brent Moore stood in a Grand Prairie field, watching empty picker trucks pass by.
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