Four winners of the AVCC Agriculture Innovation Accelerator Award share their strategies. The Valley businesses featured here are all winners of the Agriculture Innovation Accelerator Award ─ offered each year by the Annapolis Valley Chamber of Commerce. To help...

Get ready for new opportunities to attract people and investment to your community. Read our blog about Develop Nova Scotia. Two key concepts for regional economic development were enshrined in provincial legislation in Fall 2018. The centerpieces of the new Develop...

  The “Data Runway” at the Acadia Institute for Data Analytics (AIDA) is ramping up to deliver technical advice and tools to a target of 10 businesses a year, to help them deploy data analytics.   A grant of almost $500,000 from the Invest Nova Scotia Fund, announced...

Manufacturers – large and small – sustain the economic base in the Annapolis Valley, contributing to nine percent of jobs. To support this significant sector, the Valley REN is leading the Valley Manufacturing Taskforce. Taskforce Launch  On August 16, at Michelin’s...

  The Valley REN is part of a province-wide community of Regional Enterprise Networks (“RENs”). In September this year, this broader network – comprising REN staff and board members, municipal officials and staff, and provincial partners and other stakeholders – came...

As a Regional Enterprise Network, the Valley REN has a unique perspective on economic development. While directly serving the needs of business – through our BusinessNOW program, for example – we also have a mandate to generate economic development benefits for the...

Agri-food and agri-tech businesses in the Valley take note! The deadline for the Agriculture Innovation Accelerator Award has been extended until Nov 15. Click here for the application guide and form. Since creating the Agriculture Innovation Accelerator Award in...