A community-wide approach to building economic resilience and prosperity:

OUR Mission

Today, emerging technologies are signaling the start of a new economic cycle where regions that are effective in transforming technology innovation into commercial success will gain competitive advantage and enhance economic resilience.

Our Vision

To create, nurture and develop an integrated technology ecosystem in Canmore and the Bow Valley, culminating in the establishment of an internationally recognized, campus-style, Technology Innovation Park.

Our Goal

To support the development of entrepreneurial talent to create and develop new innovative technology products and market-driven companies transforming science and technology innovation into commercial success.

Our Focus

To build a vibrant community of researchers, developers and entrepreneurs to work, learn and collaborate together to develop their projects and to have access to the resources to expand to global markets.

To collaborate with existing local organizations, including the district school community, to establish an interdisciplinary technology education platform by providing programs for kids, teens and adults to develop the skills in coding, design and entrepreneurship to contribute to, and prosper in, the trans-formative social and economic systems of the 21st Century.

Our Beginning

Launched in Spring 2019 as a new, impactful economic development and diversification initiative, the Innovate Canmore Group is an integrated network of entities comprised of a Not-For-Profit corporation, primarily delivering technology education programs, together with a number of For-Profit corporations primarily involved in commercializing new technology projects.

The Group is founded and governed by local boards of directors, directing and collaborating with technology development and management teams with extensive professional backgrounds in education, computer and life sciences, AI and machine learning, technology product development, financial engineering, and the entrepreneurial venture cycle of startup, build out, and exit.

"The enduring competitive advantages in an economy lie increasingly in local attributes that competitors cannot match........
Knowledge, Relationships, Motivation

The focus should be on high growth, technology-driven innovation (Technovation) industries with high wages."
Michael Porter, Harvard Business School;
Economic Development "Cluster Strategy"

Our Business Model

View our Business Model here.

The Team

Read more about the cohort of Tech Talent at Innovate Canmore here.

Partners