Our region thrives because of the support of investors, elevators, an extensive startup support system, and established and prominent research hubs. Innovation in the region is inclusive - it's happening across diverse sectors and includes social, cultural, sustainable and indigenous innovation.
The Edmonton Region is a place to challenge boundaries, unlock your potential, and achieve the unthinkable.
Since 1921, InnoTech Alberta been the heart of Alberta’s innovation engine as Canada’s premier applied research organization. From generating new ideas to testing, mitigating risk, and helping businesses and industries scale up their processes and products, their work has always focused on productive commercial applications. They have the capacity, tools, and expertise to solve whatever challenges their partners and clients face.
Edmonton Unlimited leverages, unites and promotes home-grown innovation as a gateway to solving the world’s most pressing problems. We harness the power of the private sector, ground-breaking academic research and purpose-driven investment to build a shared prosperity and open international markets. From sustainable climate solutions to public health and digital education, Edmonton is a leading global centre for inspiration, ingenuity and inclusion.
Innovation Masterminds (imYEG) is a pre-accelerator, designed to facilitate the launch of successful commercial ventures from academia.
The HIA is Alberta’s newest accelerator, with a focus on driving the growth of the hydrogen economy and ensuring regional companies benefit from this new opportunity in the energy sector. This program will support the growth of existing small to medium sized (SME) businesses by helping them identify new opportunities related to the hydrogen sector and operationalize them.
As an ecosystem of startups focused on growth, NABI offers a conduit for entrepreneurs to connect with regional, provincial, national, and international ecosystems, as well as to other business support organizations. Early-stage businesses can utilize NABI’s programs and services to build a strong foundation in a low-risk, supportive, and growth-enabling environment.
Plug and Play’s network consists of 50,000 startups, 500+ world-leading corporations, and hundreds of venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies across multiple industries. Together with their partners, they are creating a unique ecosystem designed to develop and implement the technologies of tomorrow.
Rainforest Alberta is a movement of people working together to improve Alberta’s innovation ecosystem. Rainforest is about bringing people together and facilitating those serendipitous collisions between diverse groups of people.
Smart Technology (ST) Innovations is a non-profit health technology development center for advancing health innovations from discovery to market. They are located at the University of Alberta (UofA) campus