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![Insights Briefing - Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Cleantech in Canada]()
December 7, 2020 Article Insights Briefing - Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Cleantech in Canada Since the beginning of the pandemic, Canadian cleantech industry associations have jointly undertaken multiple surveys of their members to identify and quantify COVID-19 impacts to the cleantech sector. View Article -
![Foresight Announces Circular Bioeconomy Reverse Pitch Challenge]()
December 1, 2020 Announcement Foresight Announces Circular Bioeconomy Reverse Pitch Challenge The event is focused on providing opportunities and making connections for innovators with circular bioeconomy solutions across the automotive, construction and packaging value chains. View Announcement -
![Foresight Announces Strategic Advisory Board for Canada’s waterNEXT Cluster]()
November 10, 2020 Announcement Foresight Announces Strategic Advisory Board for Canada’s waterNEXT Cluster Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre (Foresight) announced today the formation of the waterNEXT Advisory Board, an esteemed group of scientific and business leaders in the water sector chosen to advise the waterNEXT pan-Canadian cluster on opportunities to maximize the impact of its programs and services. View Announcement -
![Foresight, Vestas, and Canada’s Trade Commissioner Service Launch an Open Innovation Challenge to Transform the Wind Turbine Industry]()
November 4, 2020 Announcement Foresight, Vestas, and Canada’s Trade Commissioner Service Launch an Open Innovation Challenge to Transform the Wind Turbine Industry Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre (Foresight) officially launched SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Connect, an open innovation challenge for innovators across Canada to solve industry challenges from around the globe View Announcement -
![Foresight & WaterSMART Announce the Acquisition of waterNEXT]()
October 6, 2020 Announcement Foresight & WaterSMART Announce the Acquisition of waterNEXT Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre (Foresight) and WaterSMART Solutions Ltd. (WaterSMART) announced today the asset acquisition of waterNEXT Innovations Inc. (waterNEXT) - Canada’s Water Accelerator. View Announcement -
![entrepreneurship@UBC & Foresight Announce New Collaboration to Energize Growth of BC Cleantech Ecosystem]()
September 29, 2020 Announcement entrepreneurship@UBC & Foresight Announce New Collaboration to Energize Growth of BC Cleantech Ecosystem Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre (“Foresight”) and UBC (“UBC”) announced today at Entrepreneurship@UBC Immersion Week, a Memorandum of Understanding (“the collaboration”) committed to creating pathways to commercialization for breakthrough innovations coming out of entrepreneurship@UBC’s (e@UBC) new Climate Venture Studio. View Announcement -
![Shining a Spotlight on Women in Cleantech]()
September 24, 2020 Article Shining a Spotlight on Women in Cleantech Foresight is an inclusive community of thought-leaders, innovators, and changemakers. We are proud to recognize #womenleadingcleantech. View Article -
![Foresight Expands Launch & Deliver Programs Across Western Canada with Exciting New Programs in Edmonton and Saskatoon]()
August 6, 2020 Announcement Foresight Expands Launch & Deliver Programs Across Western Canada with Exciting New Programs in Edmonton and Saskatoon Foresight, in collaboration with regional partners, is expanding their flagship Launch & Deliver programs to Cleantech entrepreneurs in Edmonton and Saskatoon, building off of success in Vancouver, and in Calgary with Platform Calgary. View Announcement -
![The Edge Effect - How Cluster Organizations Can Tackle Climate Change]()
August 4, 2020 Article The Edge Effect - How Cluster Organizations Can Tackle Climate Change The edge effect happens when you find yourself at the intersection between two places. The concept is based on the idea is that within these in-between places, think river deltas, biodiversity is often richer. View Article -
![Future Economy Series: Mining Webinar Recap]()
July 16, 2020 Article Future Economy Series: Mining Webinar Recap Mining innovation leaders from Teck, ABB and EELO Solutions joined our weekly webinar on Tues, July 14, 2020 to discuss the recommendations from The Road to 2050 – Bridging the Gap Between Challenges and Solutions in Mining report that outlines how we can meet near and long-term climate change targets in the mining sector. View Article -
![Ecoation - The Data Driven Grower Assistant and the Human-AI Sandwich]()
July 16, 2020 Article Ecoation - The Data Driven Grower Assistant and the Human-AI Sandwich It is clear that agriculture should have a pivotal role to play in meeting Canada’s climate goals, not just in cutting emissions and moving to renewable energy, but also in reducing atmospheric CO2 through the CO2 sequestration capacity of soil. View Article -
![FORESIGHT Annual Report 2019-2020]()
July 15, 2020 Article FORESIGHT Annual Report 2019-2020 Foresight is Western Canada’s Cleantech Innovation Centre. We fuel the identification and commercialization of technologies needed to address today’s most urgent energy, resource, and industry challenges. View Article
