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- July 21, 2010: The Daily Courier about ORIC Kelowna's Face-Time event with Shawnee Love: "Laws of Attraction, Recruiting for Entrepreneurial Companies"

- May 21, 2010: Penticton Western reports on Honorary Fellows of the Okanagan College.

- May 20, 2010: Article about SOS-LINK and ORIC.

- May 6, 2010: ORIC mentioned in an article in the Globe & Mail about rural business incubators.

- May 5, 2010: ORIC became a node in the Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN). See press release here.

- April 15, 2010: Feature story in the Kelowna Airport Magazine YLW Connection on the Okanagan Tech Sector (pdf).

- April, 2010: Article about ORIC in Penticton in Business Okanagan Thomson newspaper.

- April 4, 2010: Excellent article about ORIC and our Kelowna Innovation Centre in Kelowna Capital News: "Business Seeds Cultivated". Two of our new clients are featured: VP Process and Qasper.

- April 1, 2010: SOS LINK, ORIC Penticton Innovation Centre's sponsor company was featured in the Penticton Western News.

- February 25, 2010: Press clippings from the SIDIT cheque hand-over event for the expansion of ORIC Kelowna: Castanet; Kelowna Capital News; Kelowna.com and another at Kelowna.com, Okanagan Saturday

- February 24, 2010: Hosted an "Innovation Plaza" business networking event at ORIC Kelowna Innovation Centre with Kent Knaebel, PE, PhD. Dr. Knaebel is one of the world's foremost scientific minds and one of the world's leading "adsorption" experts, teaching short courses on adsorption technology in both the U.S. and Europe. Dr. Knaebel visited the Okanagan as a guest of local companies, WearAir Oxygen Inc. and WearAir Industrial Inc., and shared his insights and perspectives with members of the ORIC community on the topic "Carbon Capture Techniques via Adsorption". Coverage in Kelowna Capital News

-December 14, 2009: CAF funding announcement for ORIC Penticton in the Penticton Herald and in the Penticton Western News.

- December 11, 2009: Press Release Community Adjustment Fund supports High-Tech Incubator in Penticton

- December 10, 2009: Article in the Kelowna Capital News , Daily Courier and Kelowna.com about the Pushor Mitchell's legal round table at ORIC.

- November 20, 2009: Daily Courier article about "Winning relationships need work" reporting about an ORIC  seminar done by executive coach Charley Hampton.

- November 14, 2009: The Okanagan Saturday newspaper: Pushor Michell becomes ORIC's Knowledge Partner

- November 9, 2009: It is all good - Update from the Economic Development Officer Penticton

- November 4, 2009: Okanagan Business Incubator gets some legal help. More...

- October 21, 2009: "Centre sees high-tech on the horizon" in the Penticton Western News.

- October 14, 2009: Penticton Western News about ORIC and Penticton Okanagan College connection.

Media coverage related to the NRC-IRAP funding of ORIC's clients Vericorder Technologies and Vineyard Networks in Castanet, Kelowna Capital News, Penticton Herald, Government of Canada, Kelowna.com, High Tech Companies Bloom in Silicon Vineyard, CABI, Business Thomson Okanagan

- October 8, 2009: Vericorder in the news: high tech start up sales are abpout to pop - Kelowna Capital News

- October 2, 2009: Face Time with Barbara Davis (September 24) - Article in the Courier.

Penticton Western News round table announcement.

- September 23, 2009: Penticton Western News -Okanagan College in Penticton: Centre of Excellence construction begins with an embedded incubator for ORIC's clients and article in the Business Examiner

- August 16, 2009: ORIC Kelowna Innovation Centre supports Twitter Business Day (TwitBizDay) - an initiative to connect the Kelowna business community using social networking tools

- August 8, 2009:  ORIC Kelowna Director, Martin Yuill, quoted in an article in the Okanagan Saturday discussing the impact of the recession on Okanagan companies

- July 23, 2009: Pamela Nelson held a very successful face time seminar on marketing.

- July 10, 2009: Dr. Vincent Crabtree of UK Dialog Devices in an interview in the Daily Courier.

- June 2009: Article in the Okanagan about Basil Peters talk at ORIC Kelowna Innovation Centre on June 18th and article in Business Thomson Okanagan.

- May 2009: Interview with Martin Yuill in the Business Thomson Okanagan .

A New Take on Incubators - article in Entrepreneur.com

March 2009: Press Coverage of the Official Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony ORIC Kelowna Innovation Centre:
- Okanagan Saturday
- ORIC's press release
- WD press release
- Economic Development Commission Central Okanagan
- Ron Cannan mentions ORIC on his web site: Supporting R&D is Everyone's Business
- LifeSciences British Columbia
- Capital News
- Castanet
- Mayor Shepherd remarks
- Backbone Magazine

Article about ORIC Kelowna Innovation Centre in the Business Examiner. Interview with Martin Yuill.

September 2008: The Okanagan Saturday about ORIC Kelowna and the SIDIT grant (large file) and story in the Kelowna Capital News. A copy of the media release, posting at T-net, Economic Development Commission Central Okanagan

August 2008: The Okanagan Life Magazine Rainmakers 2008 edition has a story about ORIC's President (large file).

April 2008: The Okanagan newspaper: Silicon Vineyard Innovation Awards
Oliver Chronicle: DRAO and ORIC big winners at the Silicon Vineyard Innovation Award Ceremony

Jan/Feb 2008: Article in the magazine Okanagan Life talks about the future of the Okanagan

Media coverage after the official opening of ORIC on November 10, 2006:

- CHBC broadcast
- Western News Penticton
- Okanagan Saturday
- Press Release
- Okanagan Partnership Highlights 2006 (large file)

Past coverage:

- Penticton Herald
- Western
- Southern Exposure
- OSTEC Newsletter  Aricle about ORIC and Incubators October 2005
- Annual General Meeting of the Okanagan Partnership
- Memorandum of Co-operation with TRLabs signed
- ORIC mentioned in NRC's report to Parliament
- Feature Story in the Okanagan Life Magazine about DRAO and ORIC January 2006
- Article in the Oliver Chronicle on June 14, 2006
- Progress Report Okanagan Partnership Spring 2006
- ORIC and DRAO were featured in the Okanagan Business Journal in August 2006

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