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Bern Grush of Skymeter, a MaRS tenant and client, talks about metering car-use. Why is it the way of the future? Pay for your use of the roads, pay for your use of fossil fuels, pay for your contribution to city-road congestion. It's about making better cities and a cleaner environment. All it takes is the Skymeter satellite technology!

Bern Grush's company, Skymeter, makes a GPS-based system capable of tracking every inch a vehicle travels, how long the trip takes and where it is on the road.

Canada's Technology Triangle Inc (CTT) is a not-for-profit, public-private regional economic development partnership that markets the competitive advantages of the Waterloo Region to the world, and works to attract new businesses, investment and talent to the Region. As an information provider and business network facilitator, CTT is typically the first point of contact for enterprises outside the Waterloo Region interested in start-up, expansion, or relocation to the Waterloo Region. CTT's activity complements its partner municipalities, who focus on local business retention and expansion, and investment-related site location, business cost, servicing, and development approval considerations. CTT's municipal partners are the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, and the townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich.

The McGuinty government announced it is funding the creation and expansion of angel investor network to help Ontario's leading-edge start-up companies to grow and succeed.

The McGuinty government announced it is funding the creation and expansion of angel investor network to help Ontario's leading-edge start-up companies to grow and succeed. Oct 4, 2006

Public-private partnerships can change the world.

Public-private partnerships can change the world. Nov 7, 2007

The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC) is pleased to announce today's appointment of Gordon M. Nixon, president and chief executive officer of RBC, as Chair, and Zabeen Hirji, chief human resources officer of RBC, as Co-Chair of TRIEC. Sept 10, 2009

In Municipal Mind, Toronto's Poet Laureate offers a blueprint for building sustainable cities in a global era, predicated on city soul. By weaving bold and savvy strategies for urban creativity and civic prosperity together with a reasoned appeal for mutual respect, understanding and interaction among citizens, he persuades us that - in the delicate balancing of universal values and individual needs - cities can do far, far, better. Municipal Mind offers up a whole new way of civic being and thinking that puts wonder before commerce and nothing before human encounter.

Announcement of Dr. Benjamin Neel and Dr. John Wallace as the 2009 recipients of the Premier's Summit Award for Medical Research.

Social change and internet ideas are changing lives for Torontonians.

Social change and internet ideas are changing lives for Torontonians. Jan 30, 2009

Blog mentions of a presentation where Charles Plant spoke about Venure Capital and how you need to have a compelling business case to maximize and obtain favourable conditions from VCs. March 3, 2009

Blog mentions of a presentation where Charles Plant spoke about Venure Capital and how you need to have a compelling business case to maximize and obtain favourable conditions from VCs.

for those looking to start a tech biz in Ottawa region - a free program - apply now.

13 tips on building a start up: some inspiration, some tricks for entrepreneurs.

America still leads the world - comfortable with the risk-taking that is at the heart of entrepreneurialism and with some structural advantages built into their society and policies, they're continuing to lead.

The Canadian Patient Summit in Toronto will take place March 28 & 29, 2010. Location: March 28: Marriot (Yonge and Bloor) & March 20: MaRS (101 College Speak). At this event speakers will talk about their experiences in addressing the barriers to living well, as well as to present their ideas and recommendations about how to become engaged partners with healthcare stakeholders and government decision makers.

Vive Nano receives accolades for its clean tech approach. Its appeal is in its business model: to develop new processes and company-specific nanoparticles, then lease out their know-how to established companies who have both their own distribution networks and capability to deal with the various national regulatory hurdles that a small firm could never hope to manage.

MaRS client and Toronto nanotechnology upstart Vive Nano is featured in Yonge Street magazine as a good news story for innovative business in TO.

If you are starting out as a social entrepreneur or re-vamping your company, this book is for you. It holds insights on how to think like an entrepreneur, how to start an enterprise as a business not a charity. This book will teach you how successful social entrepreneurs: * Focus on community wants and needs * Match those with core competencies to provide the quality services * Assess risk and gauge opportunity * Develop new project ideas and test their feasibility * Write a business plan * Project finances in the plan * Tap into new sources of funding * Develop the idea of social entrepreneurship throughout the organization * Make sure that mission, not money, is the bottom line