Business Incubators
Business incubators can provide a wide range of resources for start-up companies, including access to office space, research facilities, technology and expertise. A number of business incubators are located throughout the greater Edmonton Region:
- Edmonton Research Park Incubators
- TEC Centre
- NINT Innovatin Centre
- novaNAIT
- Northern Alberta businss Incubator (NABI)
- Agrivalue Prcessing Business Incubator
Edmonton Research Park Incubators
The Edmonton Research Park incubators include the Advanced Technology Centre (ATC), the Research Centre One (RC1) and Biotechnology Business Development Centre (BBDC). The Advanced Technology Centre serves a first-stage business incubator for start-up companies, including month to- month leases and shared services. The Biotechnology Business Development Centre offers affordable office and wet-lab spaces. The Research Centre One also offers affordable office and wet-lab spaces for lease.
Number of companies: 40 (ATC 28, RC1 8, BBDC 4)
Size: ATC - 43,279 sq. ft. RC1- 41,027 sq. ft. BBDC - 67,358 sq. ft.
Number of staff employed by tenants in the 3 facilities: 333 www.edmonton.com/researchpark
TEC Centre
TEC Edmonton operates the TEC Centre, an incubation facility located in the heart of downtown Edmonton, on the fourth floor of Enterprise Square. The TEC Centre offers flexible lab and office lease space for tenants to conduct their business and develop their technologies. Benefiting from being in a cross- disciplinary environment, the tenants may access TEC Edmonton expertise and programs such as TEC Source Advisory Panel, Alberta Deal Generator, and the TEC Executives in-Residence.
Number of companies: 22
Size: 46,000 sq. ft.
Sectors: life sciences, ICT, nanotechnology, agriculture
Number of staff employed by tenants: 80 www.tecedmonton.com/
NINT Innovation Centre
Located on the fourth floor of the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) on the University of Alberta campus, the NINT Innovation Centre has 15 units of office and wet or dry laboratory space for companies with a nanotechnology aspect to their business. It can also provide access to scientific and engineering expertise and world-class equipment and facilities on a fee-for-service or other collaborative model.
Number of companies: 9 Size: 16,000 sq. ft.
Sectors: nanotechnology
Number of staff employed by tenants: 29
Resources include: meeting rooms, close relationship to NRC Industrial Research Assistant Program http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/facilities/nint/innovation-centre.html
novaNAIT
novaNAIT has two incubator facilities - a brand new centre in St. Albert and the Duncan McNeill Centre for Innovation (DMCI) on its main Campus. novaNAIT also works with the NAIT Shell Manufacturing Centre (SMC). The DMCI incubation facility has eleven suites available for early stage companies and entrepreneurs. The suites vary in size from one-person suites to fourperson suites depending on the needs of tenants.
The St. Albert facility now triples novaNAIT’s incubation capacity. The Shell Manufacturing Centre houses nine labs with $4.4 million of new equipment and $5.6 million of new software and facilities that include an Advanced Hydraulics & Pneumatics lab, two Mechanical Computer Assisted Design labs, and a Computer Integrated Manufacturing lab.
Number of companies: 5
Size: 13,369 sq. ft. in two facilities
Number of staff employed by tenants: 13
www.novanait.ca
Northern Alberta Business Incubator (NABI)
NABI operates two incubation facilities in St. Albert and provides a full spectrum of services. From programs and business coaching, office space and meeting room rentals, to reception, video conferencing and office technology services.
Number of companies: 55 clients (45 businesses in incubation facilities and 10 virtual clients)
Size: 41,000 sq. ft.
Number of staff employed by tenants: 146 www.nabi.ca
Agrivalue Processing Business Incubator
Located in the Leduc, Alberta, this multi-tenant facility provides infrastructure and services to support and enhance the establishment and growth of new companies and new business ventures in Alberta. Their purpose is: To assist with start-up of new food businesses, providing facilities and programs to help manage the transition from new product development, through commercialization, market launch and growth in sales, resulting in graduation and the establishment of their own facilities. To provide a centre of excellence for agrivalue venture scale up, which will assist established food manufacturers in new product/process development, refinement, testing and manufacturing of market entry product volumes. To attract product/process development initiatives of established food industry companies to Alberta Size: 75,000 sq. ft. with 32,000 sq. ft. of processing area comprised of eight privately access, fully-serviced processing suites of differing sizes. www.agric.gov.ab.ca/apbi
Disclaimer: Strathcona County is not affiliated with the business incubators listed.
Last updated: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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