Nova Scotia - Open to the World
Nova Scotia Open to the World magazine celebrates brainpower. The issue highlights advances in biosciences, showing how investment in innovation, infrastructure, and technology transfer are resulting in biofuel expertise, specifically the fuel energy potential of microalgae. Other features include an inside look at the economic and social benefits of an aging population; how teamwork is strengthening and sustaining the province’s black business community; and how the Canadian Navy both creates and sources local technology expertise that is recognized as among the best in the world. Plus, the issue celebrates local food and an award-winning author describes the effect Halifax’s living waterfront has on his own creativity and cultural identity.
Two of this issue’s editor’s picks are:
What’s the connection between a shower curtain in a Las Vegas hotel room, a blood test at a lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, and battered fish fillets at a Piggly Wiggly grocery store in Nashville? As writer Kathryn Harley Haynes finds out, a lot more than you’d think. All three products demonstrate strategic marketing insights about international markets, confirming that a global business strategy is still rooted in the fundamentals of knowing your customers’ needs. Please follow the link below to read Foreign Affair.
The national Research Council’s Institute for marine biosciences uses its resources to help companies refine new technologies. “We have seen many success stories in Atlantic Canada,” says director general Joan Kean-Howie. “We judge how projects are going to be relevant to the partners and how we’re going to transfer that technology so it moves along the innovation chain.” Biofuel is a case in point, as NRC focuses its infrastructure and brainpower to study microalgae’s fuel-energy potential Please follow the link below to read in full bloom .
