Congratulations to Tether, provincial winner of Innovacorp's I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition. Click here to read more, and check out the sights and sounds from the awards event.

I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition provincial award winner, Tether. L - R: Patrick Hankinson, Stephen Hankinson, Tim Burke.

I-3: Innovation, Idea, Implementation

The I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition is a competition for Nova Scotians with potential new knowledge-based businesses. The purpose of the competition is to foster and support the entrepreneurial spirit in the business community across Nova Scotia and to encourage the formation of new knowledge-based start-up companies. Innovacorp is looking for high potential export oriented early stage companies with commercializable products and/or services.

The competition will be held in five zones covering all of Nova Scotia. There will be a first and second place winner from each zone who will be presented with an award package worth $100,000 and $40,000 respectively. A provincial winner will be selected from the first place zone winners. The provincial award is a $100,000 HPi Microfund investment.

Click here to download the complete I-3 competition information kit.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the competition you must be a Nova Scotia-based start-up business venture with a new knowledge-based product or service. To qualify as a start-up business venture, the business should not have generated sales revenue for more than 24 months prior to October 8, 2009, the deadline for Round One entries.

To qualify for the competition you must be the majority owner (51 per cent or more) of the business venture and plan to work full time within the proposed business in your local zone.

How to Enter

In order to enter, you must complete the online submission form and submit a 3-5 page summary of your business venture by 5:00 pm AST on October 8, 2009. For details of all the required information for your summary document, click here.

Entering the I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition is easy. Just click here to complete the online submission form and upload an electronic version of your 3-5 page business summary in Microsoft Word or Abobe PDF format.

Following a review of all the submissions, a panel of judges in each zone will select a short list of entries to be invited to compete in Round Two of the competition. Complete competition guidelines are available in the I-3 competition information kit.

Key Dates

Confidentiality

All submissions will be confidential and will not be made available to the public. Only those directly involved in managing or judging the competition will view submitted documents. Business plan details will not be disclosed, however, Innovacorp reserves the right to announce publicly the names and brief descriptions of those who advance to subsequent rounds of the competition.

If you have any questions or require more information on the I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition contact:

April MacLeod
I-3 Project Manager
902.424.8670 ext. 1177 
1.800.565.7051
i-3@innovacorp.ca