A consortium that includes the Conference of Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Michigan Sea Grant and nearly a dozen others recently launched a program called "100% Whitefish."The program is designed to…
This week, the Iceland Ocean Cluster (IOC), a pioneering, aquatic startup incubator in Reykjavik, celebrated its tenth anniversary amid multiple milestones in its mission to develop a “blue economy” of investments in and around Icelandic waters. IOC, headquartered in Reykjavik Harbor, is a meetup and matchmaker for industry, R&D, startups, and venture capital investors. The presence and proactiveness of this harbor hothouse has played no small role in creating a culture of global entrepreneurship in the Icelandic ocean economy, a sector valued at around $5-6 billion, or 25 percent of Iceland’s total economy, but with plenty of room to grow.