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Originally Posted by roryn1
Here’s an unfortunate article ... their main reason for moving is the better climate. Any real thoughts on how to keep these companies in town? Our Innovatuon Place on campus has a pretty nice indoor setting but Kelowna’s apparently is downtown... you’d think the U of S has better services than UBCO to further their product - I know San Fransisco just banned this type of bioplastic since it doesn’t actually biodegrade.
Saskatoon based company moving manufacturing to Kelowna:
https://thestarphoenix.com/news/loca...d-4c4c559cef99 |
Sad to see home grown companies like that leave Saskatoon. Innovation place has a different vibe than other places.
In Victoria VIATEC is the local incubator, it is downtown in an old refurbished brick building. Most of the start up have migrated into the downtown core. The only ones that are sticking to the innovation park in Victoria are the ones the need special facilities. VIATEC is also more decoupled from the university than innovation place is in Saskatoon. In Vancouver, SFU has pretty much put all its programs targeting startups into the downtown core. This creates a very tech focused downtown.
I have been in that complex in Kelowna but don't know much about it. As for UBCO I don't think there is a strong competitive advantage one way or the other over the UofS. Sounds like they just want to have a university they can collaborate with.
I was talking to the person in charge of food procurement at UBC about two years ago. They stopped using the black bio-degradable utensils and plates because their research showed it did not biodegrade and there was no sense paying extra for it.
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