What's Happening
Events
Explore events happening in and around the Halifax Innovation District - from pitch competitions and startup weekends, to hackathons and innovation challenges, to trainings and workshops.
Innovation Outpost
The Halifax Innovation Outpost works to address complex social, environmental, and civic needs and to foster innovation within Halifax companies, communities, and municipal government.
Projects
Check out all the latest projects the Outpost team and our partners have been working on with community organizations, startups and scaleups, and established firms.
Explore Halifax’s Innovation District
Located in the heart of Halifax, the innovation district is home to private, public, and post-secondary organizations driving R&D and commercialization in Halifax’s key industries.
2,100+
companies
15+ start-up
incubators, innovation hubs, and R&D facilities
Six
post-secondary institutions
District Resource Hub
Looking for the right connections to make your big ideas a reality? You’ve come to the right place to find the support you need in Halifax.
Halifax Innovation Outpost
The Halifax Innovation Outpost works with startups, scaleups, community organizations, and established companies to address social, environmental, and civic challenges.
Corporate Innovation
Fostering out-of-the-box thinking and collaborations.
Food Action
Creating solutions for a healthy, just and sustainable food system
Climate Action
Tackling climate change through green tech, building and jobs.
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We fast-tracked RimotHealth to provide contactless screening along with the real-time data and analytics for these business and government organizations to safely and cost-effectively manage in the new normal. These deployments with Halifax Partnership and Volta are another example of how we have benefited from being part of the Innovation District ecosystem.
Andrew Boswell
CEO, Rimot
News
SMU Entrepreneurship Centre Extends Reach
July 6, 2022
With its Exploration Fund and March Madness competition, the venerable organization is finding new ways to aid student founders.
ZeroIn Foods
June 15, 2022
When ZeroIn Foods CEO Edgar Sosa was working as a postdoctoral fellow in biomedical research at Dalhousie University, his pregnant wife and unborn child were diagnosed with gestational diabetes...…
Emera IdeaHUB Champions Founders Involved in Tough Tech
April 12, 2022
Dalhousie's Emera IdeaHUB is focused on product development. Erin and her team are focused on making sure tough tech is championed and supported through their unique challenges.