Tens of thousands of dollars are up for grabs in a competition for innovators who have ideas that could solve ocean industry problems. The Ocean Startup Challenge is a project of the Ocean Start-up Project, one of the projects developed by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster program.

The project aims to help entrepreneurs speed up the development of their ideas and get those new technologies up and running for the ocean industry. “We welcome applications with innovative solutions and perspectives that could have a major impact on the industry and the ocean economy,” said Don Grant, Executive Director of the Ocean Start-up Project. “The Challenge is an opportunity to identify, support, and grow the next Canadian ocean tech success stories.”

The ideas they want to encourage are ones that will solve some of the problems identified by leaders and companies in ocean industries. The challenges span aquaculture, fisheries, ocean transportation, bioscience, energy, healthy oceans and ecosystem services, energy, enabling technologies, and data analytics, Grant said.

Source Credit: The Chronicle Herald