IN the latest edition
30 Under 30: Innovators shaping the future of Atlantic Canada
Innovation is a funny word—hard to define, but you know it when you see it.
Last year, for our first list of 30 Under 30 innovators in Atlantic Canada, we defined innovation as the commercialization of creativity and stipulated that winners had to be founders of their own companies.
The problem, we realized, is that the youth of our honourees wasn’t always compatible with business ownership. Our criteria eliminated incredible innovators who were still in school, working for someone else or in the process of launching a business.
This year, we tweaked the selection criteria to fix that error of omission. We redefined innovators as people turning their creativity and passion into a revenue stream, a slight but meaningful differentiation that opened the eligibility criteria to people whose ideas hadn’t yet achieved commercial success and/or were employed by someone else. Aside from that, our 30 Under 30 have to live in Atlantic Canada and they had to be 30 years or younger by the close of nominations last July...
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