When Nova Scotia Premier-Elect Tim Houston’s campaign made news for his past in the business world, it was his time as a corporate consultant in The Bahamas that drew headlines. But it is the nearly two years he spent running software startup Znanja that typify a broader trend in Atlantic Canada’s innovation economy.
A roster of Atlantic innovation-driven entrepreneurs have been phasing between the worlds of business and government, running for office and often winning major elections.
Houston’s Znanja developed an AI system for converting Word documents into a format compatible with