New Cottage Industries & Co. is an education company focused on building practical creativity skills and everyday innovation capacity with our clients and students. We’ve found that the most successful and sustainable innovation model is inclusive and pragmatic. Ingenious problem solving becomes a daily practice embedded in a collaborative community culture.

Our workshops, programs, systems, tools and advisory services help people and organizations identify the innovation goals they are trying to achieve, assess for innovation talent, grow their creative capacity, master useful innovation methods, and deliver remarkable projects with excellence.

Our clients include:

  • 4iiii Innovations

  • Arcurve

  • ATB Financial

  • Benevity

  • CPA Alberta

  • Eneo Cameroon

  • Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning (Office of Research & Innovation)

  • Mount Royal University

  • Royal Roads University

  • The University of Alberta

  • YMCA Calgary

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An evolution in social values, economics, community politics, and distributed technologies have given rise to the “new cottage industry” — connecting the innovations of local entrepreneurs, creative makers, and innovative organizations to the global marketplace. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this change..