The Globe and Mail
Brett Bundale
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A remote East Coast community with roots in coal and steel might not seem like the setting for Canada’s high-tech future.
Yet some of the country’s brightest minds are leaving big-city labs in Toronto and Silicon Valley and travelling to eastern Nova Scotia to scale up cutting-edge biotechnology.
On the outskirts of Sydney, inside a carbon-neutral glass and concrete structure, entrepreneurs behind promising high-growth startups are testing innovations at scale using industrial equipment such as bioreactors, radio frequency dryers and fermenters.