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South Korea looked at how it could compete in Asia against much larger technology players like Japan and Asia and it decided that culture and music was an area it could do well.
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Finding investors for agriculture technology

Agriculture hasn’t attracted the venture capital in Canada to help move local companies to global status, but that could be changing

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There’s been a lack of investors willing to be patient with agriculture technology companies. Malcolm Campbell, vice president of research at the University of Guelph says that’s true especially around the early development stage. University of Guelph’s Gryphon’s LAAIR program helps researchers get to the start-up stage, but he says it could use 10 times […] Read more
Organizations, businesses, and universities are considering a more collaborative incubator model for ag tech.
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Hatching new technology

Can organizations, business and universities come together to create a more efficient incubator of ag tech in Ontario?

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Like many long-time players in Ontario’s agriculture innovation space, Dave Smardon is well aware that the space is crowded, efforts are fragmented and innovators are starved for funding. The CEO of Bioenterprise, a non-profit organization that since 2003 has helped more than 2,500 companies commercialize agricultural technology, recognizes the value of competition to drive innovation, […] Read more
Getting new graduates onto farms proved helpful in making them comfortable in farm technology jobs.
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Recruiting outside of ag schools

New-graduate program brings in aggies and non-aggies

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A program that linked new graduates, many from non-agriculture programs, with agriculture companies, could provide lessons to the sector in how to recruit new employees. Why it matters: The agriculture industry has a chronic shortage of workers, with the University of Guelph reporting that each of its graduates usually has four jobs waiting for them. […] Read more
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Crops, Machinery

Farm tech investment drops off after record year

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Reuters — Investor backing for agriculture technology startups cooled in the first half of 2016 after record global investment last year, according to industry data released on Monday. Funding from venture capitalists and others totaled US$1.8 billion through the first six months of the year, down 20 per cent from a year earlier, while the number […] Read more

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