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Assunta Krehl

Visionary Bill Buxton to keynote CAJ/CAJEF news innovation conference Jan. 30 - Canadia... - 1 views

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innovation media

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  • Assunta Krehl on 13 Jan 10
     
    Design and technology visionary Bill Buxton will outline the challenges facing news media and the opportunities they present in the closing keynote at a trailblazing conference in Toronto on Jan. 30. The event is geared for journalists, decision makers and members of the public.The conference is being held at the MaRS centre.
Assunta Krehl

Canadian Consulting Engineer - Ontario aims to become centre of water expertise - May 3... - 0 views

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Cleantech Water Environment

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  • Assunta Krehl on 04 May 10
     
    The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers held its second symposium related to climate change on April 29 in Toront,.Entitled, "Engineering in a Climate of Change: Making the Lakes Great." This event was held at the MaRS Centre, in cooperation with the ArcelorMittal Dofasco Centre for Engineering and Public Policy at McMaster University.
Sarah Hickman

SME Financing Data Initiative - Venture Capital Monitor - 0 views

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investors technology

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  • Sarah Hickman on 06 Oct 09
     
    As Government of Canada's quarterly publication on venture capital (VC), this site provides current information on Canada's VC industry and tracks trends in investment activity. It also reports on VC-related research and examines technology clusters where VC investment takes place.
Sarah Hickman

MaRS Discovery District - Recommended Resources - Global Market Reports - Conference Bo... - 0 views

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canada economy policy

shared by Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09 - No Cached
  • Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09
     
    "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."
Sarah Hickman

SIX - 0 views

www.socialinnovationexchange.org

social innovation social entrepreneurship collaboration

shared by Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09
     
    The social innovation eXchange (SIX) is a network that has been set up by a group of organizations to help build the emerging field of social innovation. They believe that many of the big problems that the world faces - from climate change to the care needs of an aging population - will only be solved by experiment, enterprise and innovation, and that innovation needs to tap into the creativity of every part of civil society, business and the public sector.
Sarah Hickman

Social Entrepreneurship Consortium, Inc. - 0 views

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social innovation social entrepreneurship

shared by Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09
     
    This Toronto based incorporation brings entrepreneurs, public and private companies, investors, non-profit organizations, academia, professionals, and government to promote the social value of innovation. SEC has an Advisory Board, a large global networking of business partners, a news feed, and a personal business model, to be found at http://www.seconsortium.com. Social individuals with business and management skills are welcomed to join the team.
Sarah Hickman

Ode Magazine - A New Homepage for Intelligent Optimists - 0 views

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social innovation

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  • Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09
     
    A Netherlands publication, Ode's claim to fame is profiling interesting individuals and innovators before they are known globally (such as Patch Adams and Deepak Chopra) and making alternative media mainstream. Since 1995, Ode's goal has been to promote social, economic, and environmental ideas that change the world for the better. Available in Dutch and English, Ode publishes novel ideas, profiles interesting individuals that are making a change today, makes for a great social networking tool, and reports on people, culture, science and health, responsible business, and environment.
Assunta Krehl

Showcase Exhibition Area to Feature Leading Companies at Ontario Innovation Summit: The... - 0 views

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The Ontario Innovation Summit: The Business of Aging Board Member Ilse Treurnicht ICT Healtcare

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  • Assunta Krehl on 12 Nov 09
     
    The Ontario Innovation Summit: The Business of Aging - Dec. 1-2, 2009 - will feature some of the world's top experts on the many issues that the aging of the global population poses for communities, governments, academic and health-care institutions, and businesses. The Summit's audience of technology, health care and business leaders will explore the profound public policy challenges as well as the growing opportunities associated with the aging demographic phenomenon. The Summit's Science & Technology Showcase will give organizations a unique opportunity for exposure to this influential audience. Nov 10, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Health care cash crunch - Toronto Sun - 0 views

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Aging health care events Business of Aging

shared by Assunta Krehl on 30 Nov 09 - No Cached
  • Assunta Krehl on 30 Nov 09
     
    Canada's aging population is about to drive medical costs sky high. The The Business of Aging event happening at the MaRS Centre on Dec 1 & 2, 2009. This event will explore the business of aging and look at public policy solutions to issues such as brain health, health care and pensions. Nov 29, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Private capital for public good: The power of impact investing - June 12, 2012 - 0 views

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social impact Centre for Impact Investing CII MaRS Board Members Ilse Treurnicht

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  • Assunta Krehl on 18 Jun 12
     
    KPMG announced their commitment to strengthening the Canadian impact investing marketplace and driving social innovation as a founding partner of the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing (CII).
Sarah Hickman

Front Page | Ashoka.org - 0 views

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social innovation entrepreneurship

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  • kathryn mars on 19 Feb 09
     
    Innovators for the public.
  • Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09
     
    Ashoka "strives to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world's citizens to think and act as changemakers." Ashoka supports social entrepreneurship, promotes group entrepreneurship, and builds infrastructure for the sector. Fields of work include environment, health, human rights, economic development, education, and civil engagement.
Assunta Krehl

Kicking out the jams - The Star - 0 views

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Skymeter ICT Wireless Communications

shared by Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • In November, Skymeter moved into the incubator at the MaRS Centre, where marketing expert Peter Evans has become their mentor and godfather. "Being surrounded by other entrepreneurs is inspiring and enlightening," Hassan says. "MaRS is an amazing place, with excellent speakers and events that are open to the public."
  • The father of Skymeter Corp. – which developed a BlackBerry-sized device that uses GPS signals; placed in vehicles, it meters the use of roads, parking and pay-as-you-drive insurance
  • Skymeter's black box will be attached to the windshield of cars so the box has a clear view of the sky. (Grush has figured out how to cope with tall buildings blocking signals.) The box contains a GPS receiver, some memory, a processor and a telecommunications chip. The satellite beams down to the earth, the GPS receiver computes where it is and uploads its history to a data centre to generate the bill. The vehicle measures its own use; the bill is itemized like a cellphone bill. If you prepay, the bill can be calculated on board.
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  • But the next steps – getting the Skymeter vehicle location billing system tested in Europe, the U.S. and Canada – are crucial to the realization of Grush's entrepreneurial dreams.
  • pay-as-you-drive insurance. He spent two years driving around, collecting data, writing a little software.
  • Another person at the Innovation Centre offered to "take me in and help write a business plan – for a 40 per cent stake in the business," Grush says. "Fortunately, I found Kamal."
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09
     
    As stated in the Toronto Star, "Skymeter Corp., a MaRS Tenant has developed a BlackBerry-sized device that uses GPS signals; placed in vehicles, it meters the use of roads, parking and pay-as-you-drive insurance. Skymeter's goal is to put a dent in urban traffic congestion."
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09
     
    As stated in the Toronto Star, "Skymeter Corp., a MaRS Tenant has developed a BlackBerry-sized device that uses GPS signals; placed in vehicles, it meters the use of roads, parking and pay-as-you-drive insurance. Skymeter's goal is to put a dent in urban traffic congestion." Feb 19, 2007
Assunta Krehl

Want to learn about innovation? Head to Toronto - Business Innovation Factory - 0 views

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Martin Prosperity Institute MaRS creativity

shared by Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Probably most impressive was The MaRS Centre - an old hospital converted into a non-profit innovation centre connecting science, technology and social entrepreneurs with business skills, networks and capital. The building is undeniably cool. Located in Toronto’s “Discovery District” -- two square kilometres have been designated as the city’s center of innovation. The MaRS Centre is a gateway of sorts to Canada’s largest concentration of scientific research. It’s anchored by major teaching hospitals, the University of Toronto and more than two dozen affiliated research institutes.
  • MaRS Centre from the outside
  • MaRS was created in 2000. The founding group raised significant capital (almost $100 million from all three levels of government and both institutional and individual private sector donors and an additional $130 million of debt and credit lease instruments were also secured) to support the development. What’s so clear is that leadership to drive public/private sector collaboration is required to effect real change. Many credit Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty for helping to not only create the MaRS Centre but also invigorate the region as a whole.
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  • Martin has transformed the Rotman School from a mediocre Canadian business school to a world-class institution. It’s one of the few business schools around with an innovative curriculum built around the fundamentals of design thinking. Martin believes designers approaches to thinking and problem-solving can and should be applied to all components of business (He calls it integrative thinking and business design.) Most of our own processes here at the Business Innovation Factory are firmly rooted in design thinking principles.
  • Martin also managed to lure Richard Florida to Toronto in 2007 to direct the Rotman School's new $120-million Martin Prosperity Institute. Spinning off from much of Florida's research, the institute's goal is to build a leading think-tank on the role of sub-national factors – location, place and city-regions – in global economic prosperity. By taking an integrated view of prosperity, the institute will look beyond economic measures to include the importance of quality of place and the development of people’s creative potential. I'm looking forward to ongoing conversations with our new friends at the Rotman school. I suspect there might even be a collaboration or two about to happen as well. Bottom line: if you want to learn about innovation, Toronto is the place to be.
  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    Chris Flanagan talks about the benefits of moving to Toronto and the great work happening at the MaRS Centre. Mention of Martin transforming the Rotman School to a "world-class institution" ... that has "an innovative curriculum built around the fundamentals of design thinking." There is also a mention of the Martin Prosperity Institute spin off.
  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    Chris Flanagan talks about the benefits of moving to Toronto and the great work happening at the MaRS Centre. Mention of Martin transforming the Rotman School to a "world-class institution" ... that has "an innovative curriculum built around the fundamentals of design thinking." There is also a mention of the Martin Prosperity Institute spin off. Oct 30, 2008
Cathy Bogaart

Flying surveillance robots coming soon from Aeryon | CNET News - 0 views

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Aeryon client aerospace robotics ICT

shared by Cathy Bogaart on 05 Aug 09 - Cached
  • At the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, Aeryon Labs President Dave Kroetsch gave a compelling pitch on his company, which makes a two-pound robot helicopter that has enough on-board intelligence and stability control to allow it to be flown by people who just point to locations on a Google Map-based interface.
  • sell to private security forces, and eventually police departments
  • other markets include construction (for site surveys), other public safety applications, and of course military.
  • Cathy Bogaart on 05 Aug 09
     
    CNet profiles MaRS client, Aeryon's flying robot technology, describing their potential markets. Aeryon presented at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit last week.
Sarah Hickman

Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What ... - 0 views

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best*practices public*sector government

shared by Sarah Hickman on 10 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • Sarah Hickman on 10 Aug 09
     
    Once a Harvard School of Business professor, an entrepreneur, a pianist, and currently a consultant, Kao describes the state of innovation in the US, depicting best practices and explaining how innovation works. Kao also puts forth a strategy proposal - to help the government.
Assunta Krehl

Media Alert/Photo Opportunity - Mayor David Miller to kick off Canada's first Advertisi... - 0 views

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creativity

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  • Leading Social Change - Public Sector Marketing, (SOLD OUT) MaRS Discovery District featuring: Dr. David Suzuki Representatives from the Obama campaign
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    Mayor David Miller will join a crowd of distinguished crowd of marketers from across the country and abroad at the opening ceremonies for Canada's inaugural Advertising Week. The Leading Social Change session will happen at MaRS.
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    Mayor David Miller will join a crowd of distinguished crowd of marketers from across the country and abroad at the opening ceremonies for Canada's inaugural Advertising Week. The Leading Social Change session will happen at MaRS. Jan 21, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Open-source politics breathe fresh air into the Big Smoke - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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social change social innovation

shared by Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Social change and Internet ideals have gotten hitched, and the results are going to change the way Torontonians live.
  • That prevalence of social networks is starting to have unexpected real-world results.
  • ools like Twitter, which encourage people to exchange small thoughts with each other in public, have helped knock Toronto's open-culture scene into high gear.
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  • Ryan Merkley, a senior adviser to Mayor David Miller, was working an easel in the basement of the MaRS building at College and University. Attendees of an un-conference called ChangeCamp — a collection of programmers, activists, politicians and media types — were shouting out suggestions for what municipal information they'd like to see the city put online.
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    Social change and internet ideas are changing lives for Torontonians.
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    Social change and internet ideas are changing lives for Torontonians. Jan 30, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Ever Been To MaRS? - Flickr - 0 views

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mars

shared by Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09 - Cached
  • This building, the old Toronto General Hospital, is now the home of MaRS - a public-private partnership designed to assist research, development, and technology initiatives and related entrepreneurs. The redone space is stunning - an open concept with glass offices looking out into a cavernous main foyer. The exterior, as seen in the photo, is pretty impressive too. Nice to see that they maintained most of the facade despite the fairly extensive internal alterations. 
  • Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09
     
    Blog has a photo of the MaRS Centre and briefly mentions about the attractiveness architecture of the building.
  • Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09
     
    Blog has a photo of the MaRS Centre and briefly mentions about the attractiveness architecture of the building. April 15, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Cleantech Sector World-Class - San Diego Business Journal Online - March 1, 2010 - 0 views

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Cleantech Solar

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  • Assunta Krehl on 01 Mar 10
     
    Shawn Lesser, author and president and founder of Atlanta-based Sustainable World Capital, identified critical characteristics of successful clean-tech clusters, including a region that has a thriving technology base, abundant entrepreneurial and management talent, access to capital, and a proactive environmental public policy. MaRS is listed as one of the other clean-tech organizations.
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