The gross domestic product of all industries in Nova Scotia amounted to 33.05 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. Between 1997 and 2023, the gross domestic product rose by 11.9 billion U.S. dollars, though the increase followed an uneven trajectory rather than a consistent upward trend.

Invest Nova Scotia is Nova Scotia’s business development agency that works to promote economic growth and community economic development in the province by enabling business, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship. Early stage deep technology start-ups are a key focus area for Invest Nova Scotia. They are supported through venture capital, incubation facilities, expert advice, and other acceleration initiatives. Invest Nova Scotia makes equity investments through the Nova Scotia First Fund (NSFF), a venture capital fund backed by the Nova Scotia government. Venture capital-backed start-ups typically have a greater economic impact than their non-backed peers, demonstrating stronger growth in revenue, employment and assets. Invest Nova Scotia is driven by generating financial returns on its fund, and also seeks to leverage its deals with other venture capital and angel co-investors, attracting new capital and expertise for the region. The Amount Raised by Invest Nova Scotia Investment Portfolio Companies dataset shows the total investment dollars raised by Invest Nova Scotia’s investment portfolio throughout the year. The amount speaks to the strength of the companies in Invest Nova Scotia’s portfolio (i.e., their ability to attract capital) and Invest Nova Scotia’s ability to support them in those efforts.

Invest Nova Scotia is Nova Scotia’s business development agency that works to promote economic growth and community economic development in the province by enabling business, innovation, and entrepreneurship. From starting up and raising capital, to incubation and acceleration, export development and investment attraction, Invest Nova Scotia helps businesses seize opportunities.

Invest Nova Scotia is Nova Scotia’s business development agency that works to promote economic growth and community economic development in the province by enabling business, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Early stage deep technology start-ups are a key focus area for Invest Nova Scotia. They are supported through venture capital, incubation facilities, expert advice, and other acceleration initiatives.

This dataset gives information on Invest Nova Scotia’s major acceleration program awards for Nova Scotia start-ups.

Invest Nova Scotia is Nova Scotia’s business development agency that works to promote economic growth and community economic development in the province by enabling business, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Early stage deep technology start-ups are a key focus area for Invest Nova Scotia. They are supported through venture capital, incubation facilities, expert advice, and other acceleration initiatives.

Invest Nova Scotia makes equity investments through the Nova Scotia First Fund (NSFF), a venture capital fund backed by the Nova Scotia government. Venture capital-backed start-ups typically have a greater economic impact than their non-backed peers, demonstrating stronger growth in revenue, employment and assets. Invest Nova Scotia is driven by generating financial returns on its fund, and also seeks to leverage its deals with other venture capital and angel co-investors, attracting new capital and expertise for the region.

This dataset lists the companies Invest Nova Scotia invested in and the amount invested.

Invest Nova Scotia is Nova Scotia’s business development agency that works to promote economic growth and community economic development in the province by enabling business, innovation, and entrepreneurship. From starting up and raising capital, to incubation and acceleration, export development and investment attraction, Invest Nova Scotia helps businesses seize opportunities.

Invest Nova Scotia is Nova Scotia’s business development agency that works to promote economic growth and community economic development in the province by enabling business, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship. Early stage deep technology start-ups are a key focus area for Invest Nova Scotia. They are supported through venture capital, incubation facilities, expert advice, and other acceleration initiatives. Invest Nova Scotia makes equity investments through the Nova Scotia First Fund (NSFF), a venture capital fund backed by the Nova Scotia government. Venture capital-backed start-ups typically have a greater economic impact than their non-backed peers, demonstrating stronger growth in revenue, employment and assets. Invest Nova Scotia is driven by generating financial returns on its fund, and also seeks to leverage its deals with other venture capital and angel co-investors, attracting new capital and expertise for the region. The Amount Raised by Invest Nova Scotia Investment Portfolio Companies dataset shows the total investment dollars raised by Invest Nova Scotia’s investment portfolio throughout the year. The amount speaks to the strength of the companies in Invest Nova Scotia’s portfolio (i.e., their ability to attract capital) and Invest Nova Scotia’s ability to support them in those efforts.

Invest Nova Scotia is Nova Scotia’s business development agency that works to promote economic growth and community economic development in the province by enabling business, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship. Early stage deep technology start-ups are a key focus area for Invest Nova Scotia. They are supported through venture capital, incubation facilities, expert advice, and other acceleration initiatives. Invest Nova Scotia makes equity investments through the Nova Scotia First Fund (NSFF), a venture capital fund backed by the Nova Scotia government. NSFF’s overall objective is to generate a return for Nova Scotia. This is measured by the total value of the investment portfolio (i.e., realized distributions and unrealized changes in value) to the total amount contributed by the Nova Scotia government (Modified TVPI ratio*). This dataset gives Invest Nova Scotia’s annual TVPI ratios. * Invest Nova Scotia’s TVPI ratios represent only the gross performance of the investments; they do not account for the costs of managing the portfolio, which are included in the organization’s operating budget.

Invest Nova Scotia is Nova Scotia’s business development agency that works to promote economic growth and community economic development in the province by enabling business, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship. Early stage deep technology start-ups are a key focus area for Invest Nova Scotia. They are supported through venture capital, incubation facilities, expert advice, and other acceleration initiatives. Invest Nova Scotia makes equity investments through the Nova Scotia First Fund (NSFF), a venture capital fund backed by the Nova Scotia government. NSFF’s overall objective is to generate a return for Nova Scotia. This is measured by the total value of the investment portfolio (i.e., realized distributions and unrealized changes in value) to the total amount contributed by the Nova Scotia government (Modified TVPI ratio*). This dataset gives Invest Nova Scotia’s annual TVPI ratios. * Invest Nova Scotia’s TVPI ratios represent only the gross performance of the investments; they do not account for the costs of managing the portfolio, which are included in the organization’s operating budget.

Annual Provincial and Territorial Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at basic prices, by North American Industry Classification aggregates, in chained and current dollars, growth rate.

Invest Nova Scotia is Nova Scotia’s business development agency that works to promote economic growth and community economic development in the province by enabling business, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Early stage deep technology start-ups are a key focus area for Invest Nova Scotia. They are supported through venture capital, incubation facilities, expert advice, and other acceleration initiatives.

The Bays at Invest Nova Scotia in Dartmouth targets companies in clean technology and a variety of other knowledge-based sectors, and offers a reliable enterprise-grade voice and data network, redundant high-speed internet services, and a dependable server hosting facility. The Labs at Invest Nova Scotia in Halifax focuses on companies in the life sciences industry and offers specialized scientific infrastructure otherwise unavailable in the commercial real estate market. The Start-Up Yard incubation facility at the Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship (COVE) helps early stage companies commercialize their ocean technologies and succeed in the global marketplace.

This dataset lists the resident companies at Invest Nova Scotia’s three incubation facilities.

Invest Nova Scotia is Nova Scotia’s business development agency that works to promote economic growth and community economic development in the province by enabling business, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship. Early stage deep technology start-ups are a key focus area for Invest Nova Scotia. They are supported through venture capital, incubation facilities, expert advice, and other acceleration initiatives. This dataset gives information on Invest Nova Scotia’s major acceleration program awards for Nova Scotia start-ups.

The dataset provides information on industry specialization, industry structure and employment for Nova Scotia’s Functional Economic Regions. The data fields include: Functional Economic Region Name, North American Industry Classification (NAICS) - 4-digits; Category and Type of Industry; Location Quotient by Employment; and Level of Specialization category. Fields may be updated or change over time.

The number of Community Economic Development applications received, declined, and approved.

This polygon feature class outlines African Nova Scotian Communities in the municipality, giving planners geospatial data for strategic planning. It aids mapping and targeted efforts to support inclusive growth and economic prosperity.African Nova Scotian communities that correspond to any GSA Community Boundary are identified by the GSA_ID. Currently, this is a subset of the community boundary layer, but this may change as the ANS community boundaries are further refined.Metadata

A geographic shape file of Nova Scotia’s Functional Economic Regions based on the 2021 census data. The most widely accepted approach to identifying functional economic regions is based on self-contained labour areas (SLAs) - a group of two or more Census Subdivisions (CSDs) where at least 75% of the workers both live and work in the area. Using Census data, Statistics Canada has identified Census Subdivisions (CSDs) that can be grouped together into SLAs based on daily commuting flows. The Office of Planning and Priorities has mapped these areas and created a GIS shape file that is intended to represent Nova Scotia’s functional economic regions.

This table contains 173 series, with data for years 1961 - 1980 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2009-01-23. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (15 items: Canada; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; Newfoundland and Labrador ...), Income-based estimates (12 items: Corporation profits before taxes; Provincial gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices; Net domestic income at factor cost; Interest and miscellaneous investment income ...).

The dataset provides indicators for assessing “innovation-driven entrepreneurship’ in regional ecosystems (iEcosystems) based on Nova Scotia’s Functional Economic Regions. Each indicator includes a score of 1 to 10 on how a region performs against other regions across Canada. The data fields include: Index Year, Functional Economic Region Name, Indicator, and Score. Indicators are subject to change over time.

This graph shows the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Canada in 2023, by province. In 2023, Ontario added about 852.7 billion chained (2017) Canadian dollars of value to the real GDP of Canada.

Community Economic Development Investment Fund (CEDIF) historical amount raised under the Equity Tax Credit program. Data is available by tax year for each applicant.