Alberta holding two venture capital events

Guest Contributor
September 16, 2002

Ventures capitalists from Canada and the US are congregating in this week to participate in two events organized by the provincial government. The first event is the Alberta-California Venture Channel Conference, which is being held for the first time in Alberta on September 19. It was created earlier this year at the recommendation of the Premier’s Advisory Council on Information and Communications Technology. The next stop on the venture capital (VC) tour is the Banff Venture Forum. The government has developed a strategy for attracting VC to its jurisdiction, including events like those mentioned above and the creation of Inno-Centre Alberta, a provincial node of the national Inno-Centre Canada mentoring firm. Alberta has historically had difficulty attracting VC due to its lack of tax incentives or other tax-related measures geared to lowering R&D costs….


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