HALIFAX, N.S. — EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fifth story in a five-part series. In Part 5, we examine Atlantic Canada's future in technology and innovation.
It can’t be done here.
For decades, that’s what sceptics would say as they quietly doubted plans to create a tech sector in Atlantic Canada.
Leave the innovation to Silicon Valley, Waterloo and big cities, some said. Stick to tourism, services and natural resources like fisheries, forestry and agriculture.
But the homegrown success of tech firms like Fredericton’s Radian6, Halifax’s GoInstant, St. John’s Verafin and Charlottetown’s BioVectra has changed the conversation.
