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Bering Media is offering digital direct mail marketing with a unique privacy-protection service.The company has attracted both investors and clients in its first 18 months of operation. Bering Media has received business development assistance from MaRS Discovery District.

Clean energy was mentioned in the Speech from the Throne. Tom Rand, MaRS Discovery District Clean Tech Practice Lead shares his views on what it means to marry jobs and the environment.

Dr. Calvin Stiller, Chair of Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Board Member of MaRS Discovery District and past chair of Genome Canada is a recipient for the 2010 Canada Gairdner Award.

This document provides the latest available internationally comparable data on patents. The patent indicators presented are designed to reflect recent trends in innovative activities across a wide range of OECD member and non-member countries.

"CBOC provides information on Canadian economic trends, public policy, and organizational performance. Three important subject matters covered are: Economic Performance Trends: Forecast indicators, Historical indicators, Custom services, Conference information, Dictionaries, and a link to the Canadian Tourism Research Institute. More specifically, the Economic forecast indicators focus on Canadian, Provincial, Metropolitan, and Industrial outlooks, as well as at U.S. forecasts."

"The United States spends more on health care-related research and development than any other country. In 2003, it was estimated that the Federal government alone spent over $26 billion. Pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers and other private companies invested over $10 billion more. At its best, the American health care system is capable of delivering care unsurpassed anywhere else in the world. Yet, a 1999 Institute of Medicine study estimated that as many as 98,000 Americans die each year from hospital related medical errors. A recent study by the Rand Corporation (a non-profit think tank) concluded that less than 50 percent of encounters with doctors and hospitals resulted in optimal, evidence-based treatment. Studies show that as many as 42 million Americans - almost 15 percent of the population - lack health care insurance. Surveys reveal that patients do not feel they have adequate information about their conditions, and that their experience with health care ranks below that of most other sectors, in fact below that of the post office. In the aggregate, the country is spending nearly $2 trillion on health care, and yet the nation's health care system does not meet acceptable thresholds for safety, quality, access or cost. In 2005, VHA Health Foundation's board of directors sought to better understand the reasons behind this paradox. The foundation commissioned Larry Keeley and his associates at Doblin Inc. to apply the rigorous analytical methods that are used in their evaluation of other American industries and companies. The project set out to discover when, where and how innovation was taking place in health care. It also sought to identify organizations that were developing model innovation processes, and to explore where opportunities for successful innovation might lay."

An in-depth review of the private equity market in Canada. This fifth installment in the series, produced in conjunction with McKinsey & Company, provides a fact-based perspective of the key trends shaping the Canadian private equity market Volume 1: produced by Goodman and Carr LLP, provides an in-depth review of key market facts. It describes the main characteristics of Canada's private equity market, the preferences of its participants, and the market activity over the past year.

"The Centre for Social Innovation is a place-based hub of ideas, people, services and strategies. In partnership with Urbanspace Property Group, they provide 18,000 square feet of shared workspace in downtown Toronto. The Centre for Social Innovation is home to a community of nonprofits, charities, social enterprises, artists, green businesses, and individual innovators. Working together, they lower costs, create synergies, and spark new ideas for advancing their shared interests. The Centre for Social Innovation explores new ideas in collaboration, social entrepreneurship and systems change. These interests guide their work. Their website only offers a subscription to their email newsletter, Social Innovator's Update. Join to receive information on news and events in this space."

MaRS Discovery District, brings individuals and companies with innovative ideas together with a roster of high-level advisers and mentors who provide guidance as well as contacts.MaRS is crucial for the viability of Canadian companies competing against larger foreign rivals. Oct 16, 2009

Shawn Micallef from Eye Weekly find the MaRS Discovery District on College Street between Elizabeth and University is composed of old and new. The most dramatic change is in the atrium. Nov 4, 2009

in this Maclean's article on the home renovation tax credits, MaRS cleantech practice lead Tom Rand is quoted as an expert in cleantech and business issues. He says that making buildings more efficient through such government incentives is "low hanging fruit on the carbon tree."

Maclean's magazine features Canadian cleantech start-up and MaRS client, Morgan Solar in their story about a lack of Canadian CEOs. MaRS CEO, Ilse Treurnicht talks about the gap.

"Matt Galloway spoke with Dana Greenberg a diabetic and Dr. Bernard Zinman, the Director of Diabetes Centre at Mt. Sinai Hospital at the MaRS Centre. "