Invest Nova Scotia Incubation Resident Companies

Invest Nova Scotia's incubation resident companies dataset lists firms housed within three specialized facilities. The Bays facility in Dartmouth targets clean technology companies, The Labs in Halifax focuses on life sciences, and the Start-Up Yard at COVE supports ocean technology commercialization. Columns suggest the dataset tracks company affiliation, facility details, and fiscal year.

Use Cases

• Analyzing sector distribution of incubated companies using Facility Name and Company columns
• Tracking occupancy changes across fiscal years using Fiscal Year and Company columns
• Comparing facility offerings and target sectors using Facility Name and Description columns
• Mapping the geographic focus of incubation support using Facility Name

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Open Canada signals official importance and reliability
• Dataset is licensed under OGL-CA-2.0, facilitating open reuse
• Description provides specific details on three distinct incubation facilities and their target sectors

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown across all sources
• Last updated date conflicts between sources (2026-04-17 vs 2025-04-25)
• Column list is incomplete; only Socrata provides the four column names

Provenance

Source

Invest Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia's business development agency)

Collection Method

Likely compiled from internal records of resident companies at its incubation facilities.

Freshness

2026-04-17 15:30:35.332190

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada (specifically Dartmouth, Halifax, and COVE)