For a researcher to be awarded one I2I (Idea to Innovation) grant from the Natural  Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is considered quite the feat. To be awarded three I2I NSERC grants within 12 months is nearly unheard of. So it’s a resounding vote of confidence, from the federal NSERC office, in Dr. Walied Moussa’s promising nano-sensor technology, as it moves off the laboratory bench, through field research and now into prototype development. From research emerging out of his team’s MEMS/NEMS Advanced Design Lab, the University of Alberta mechanical engineering professor and researcher has received three Idea to Innovation grants of over $123,000 each. The funds have been used to build prototypes of Dr. Moussa’s unique nano-sized strain sensors, nano-sensor activated touch screens, and, most lately, a prototype nano-sized “energy harvester” from which the nano-sensors can be powered for wireless data transmission. “The NS ...

Deloitte's annual Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) predictions January breakfast is becoming a must-attend event in Edmonton, thanks to the quality of the information and the entertaining way in which forecaster Duncan Stewart shapes the presentation.   The first year Deloitte held the event, in January, 2011, a handful of people attended. Last year, about 100 came. This year, on Jan. 24, 2013, the ballroom at Sutton Place was full. TEC Edmonton was proud to be a sponsor of the event. Thanks to Deloitte's Jeremy Webster for his words of praise about our not-for-profit, start-up company incubator and accelerator.  "TEC Edmonton is a powerhouse in the city's technology commercialization world," said Jeremy. "TEC has expanded its assistance far beyond the University of Alberta. Laine Woollard (TEC Edmonton's in-house  legal counsel) has done more licensing deals than anybody else in Northern Alberta. And TEC's Executive-in-Residence prog ...

TEC Edmonton in the news: Winter 2012/13 "Research to make a difference":  In the lead story in the fall 2012 edition of  Research News, the house magazine of Alberta Innovates Health Solutions,  no fewer than five companies and Alberta researchers that are featured have been assisted in one way or another by TEC Edmonton. Dr. Breanne Everett's Orpyx Medical Technologies, featured on Page 12, won the TEC VenturePrize student business plan competition in 2012.  MTI Metabolomics Technologies Inc, featured on Page 20, is a TEC Edmonton client company. TEC Edmonton Executive-in-Residence Reg Joseph serves as CEO of MTI. On Page 22, Osteometabolix Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a TEC Edmonton client.. Finally, on Page 23, researcher Rui Zhou is featured. Ms. Zhou collaborates with Dr. Vivian Mushahwar, who has worked closely with TEC Edmonton on the setting up of Biomotion, a U of A  spin-off company developing  technologies to assist those with paralysis.   * * * Edm ...

  Med-HF story for TEC Edmonton’s TEC Talk blog  The front-line doctors have spoken.   Within just a few weeks of being available at the online Apple App Store, Med-HF, a medical app developed at the University of Alberta in collaboration with Alberta Health Services and the assistance of TEC Edmonton has seen 1,328 downloads around the world.   Cardiologist and U of A professor Justin Ezekowitz has been developing the medical instructional form, guiding physicians through a recovering heart-failure patient “check list”, for years.    Through a series of steps, Med-HF guides the physician in choice of medications, initiation times, monitoring drug reaction and many other aspects of guiding the recovering heart-failure patient back to full health.   Ezekowitz  and pharmacist/assistant professor Sheri Koshman started the project back in 2006, as a  University of Alberta and Heart & Stroke Foundation  of Canada joint effort. What o ...

TEC Edmonton is pleased as punch about recent recognition and achievements by many of its clients and the winners from the TEC Edmonton-produced 2012 TEC VenturePrize competition. Five clients and VenturePrize winners were recognized at the 23rd annual ASTech Awards Gala, held at Edmonton’s Shaw Conference Centre on Nov. 2, 2012. Three other TEC Edmonton client companies were recognized by Alberta’s leading business periodical, Alberta Venture. They were included in the magazine’s Top 25 Most Innovative Alberta Organizations story appearing in its November 2012 edition. Produced by the Alberta Science and Technology Leadership Foundation, the ASTech Awards are the province’s most prestigious science and technology awards. TEC Edmonton clients Innovative Trauma Care (for Outstanding Science and Technology Start-Up) and KMT Hepatech (for Outstanding Commercial Achievement in Alberta Science and Technology) won their respective award categories. Innovative Trauma Care ...

“Do I want to make them small enough to do the job?” Dr. Steve Kuznicki is thinking out loud. The University of Alberta scientist is world-renowned, responsible for 48 American patents, 12 world-wide patents and another 12 patent applications in process.    For the last eight years, Dr. Kuznicki has been in academia, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta, an Alberta Ingenuity Fund Scholar and the holder of several important research chairs.   U of A researchers, if they so wish, have the option to pursue the commercialization of their own inventions with the university as a partner. They are also offered the services of TEC Edmonton’s technology management, business services and entrepreneur training if they so wish.   Since joining the University of Alberta, Dr. Kuznicki has taken advantage of TEC Edmonton’s patenting and technology licensing expertise. Through TEC Edmonton, Dr. Kuznicki recentl ...

    September, 2012 TEC Edmonton, 4000 TEC Centre, 10230 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 4P6 Switchboard: 780 492 8977 www.tecedmonton.com Dear Friends of TEC Edmonton,   Welcome to the TEC Edmonton e-mail newsletter for September, 2012, a recap of a productive summer for Edmonton’s business incubator and accelerator for startup/ innovative/ knowledge-based companies, and a preview of the shape of things to come.   For updates on TEC Edmonton activities, follow TEC Edmonton on Twitter (@TEC Edmonton), LinkedIn (TEC Edmonton) or subscribe to TEC Edmonton’s TEC Talk blog . The TEC Talk blog is updated several times a week, with information and stories about startups, innovation and technology from a Northern Alberta perspective, whether related to TEC Edmonton or not.. TEC Edmonton Client Survey:  Wanting objective performance metrics to judge its impact on the early-stage companies it serves, TEC Edmonton s ...

  TEC Edmonton's Annual Report 2011/12: Creating Value, Diversifying Economies is now available online to all who care to view it. The report includes interesting facts like the number of contracted TED Edmonton clients in the latest fiscal year (80), revenue generated by 70 TEC clients in 2011/12 ($73.4 million) and the number of entrepreneurs and researchers advised by TEC Edmonton in 2011/12 (529). TEC Edmonton business clients highlighted in the report include Innovative Trauma Care (pg 6), the Edmonton Waste Management Centre of Excellence (pg.7), Drivewyze (pg. 8), Metabolomic Technologies Inc. (page 9), SinoVeda (pg. 10) and Namsor (pg. 11). What we do, and how we do it, can be found on a two-page spread covering pages 12 and 13. It's an excellent overview of TEC Edmonton's three divisions, Entrepreneur Development, Business Development and Technology Management and explains how they operate as one cohesive unit. TEC's volunteers and sponsors are acknowledged on Page 15, ...

TEC Edmonton is pleased to be sponsoring the University of Alberta Business Students Association's "Energize 2012" Conference, slated for Saturday Sept. 22.

Students with an interest in business, mark this one down on your calendars. The career conference is an opportunity to discover all the potential paths the BComm degree can take you down.

 

Energize features Edmonton-area corporate speakers whose areas of specialization reflect eight different majors within the School of Business.

In addition to the great learning opportunities Energize provides, you will also get the chance to interact with over 100 other business students, concluding with an after dinner social and bar events.

Details about the event - where, registration. etc. will be posted on the Business Students Association website as soon as they become availble.