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Social innovation practice lead, Allyson Hewitt was on Metro Morning February 22, in a discussion on "social good in business". This segment was inspired by the Civic Action forum about a week ago, in which MaRS was mentioned many times. Fitting, as the forum's focus on building a prosperous and engaged city.

Harper committed the cancer funding, starting April 1 2012, while visiting Toronto's MaRS Discovery District. The funding announced today will help doctors detect cancer sooner and give health care workers, support groups and survivors the help they need to fight back against cancer. The funding builds on the program's progress on prevention, diagnosis, treatment and hope, on a path to a cure.

"Scotiabank Nuit Blanche will include "Stepping back 100 years in time at the MaRS Building for Richard Purdy's interactive L'echo-l'eau log run."

The Nuit Blanche festival will feature 134 projects from over 500 local and international artists. A highlight will include "Stepping back 100 years in time at the MaRS Building for Richard Purdy's interactive L'echo-l'eau log run."

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche will take place Oct 1, 2011. The festival will feature 134 projects from over 500 local and international artists. A highlight will include "Stepping back 100 years in time at the MaRS Building for Richard Purdy's interactive L'echo-l'eau log run."

"Scotiabank Nuit Blanche will include "Stepping back 100 years in time at the MaRS Building for Richard Purdy's interactive L'echo-l'eau log run."

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche will take place Oct 1, 2011. The festival will feature 134 projects from over 500 local and international artists. A highlight will include "Stepping back 100 years in time at the MaRS Building for Richard Purdy's interactive L'echo-l'eau log run."

"Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is taking place Oct 1, 2011 and it  will include "Stepping back 100 years in time at the MaRS Building for Richard Purdy's interactive L'echo-l'eau log run."

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada provides free up-to-date access to local and global market reports (via subscription only). Market reports on the following industries are included: manufacturing, materials, aerospace and defense, agriculture (technology and food), arts, automotive, bio-tech, building products, chemicals, consumer products, electric power, environment, fish and seafood, forest, health, IT, metals, ocean tech, oil and gas, plastics, rail and urban transit, space, and tourism.

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.

A Canadian Federally Registered Charitable Organization since 1999, Homeland Int., Inc. seeks to provide housing and better-quality-of-living services to global communities. The non-profit organization seeks entrepreneurs, lawyers, mentors, philanthropists, corporate leaders, and others. These individuals and companies can donate their time, commitment, collective knowledge, management resources, and other skills towards assisting communities with social implementation strategies and many other community-building projects.

This is the kind of environment that Ontario is trying to build: The EuC2C partnership is an inter-sectoral group of organisations committed to making European businesses more innovative and competitive in the long term. The knowledge, skills and networks of the partnership complement each other, containing as it does a communications focussed SME, the world's most specialised firm in helping develop cluster-based programmes, a Europe-wide network of business innovation centres, a non profit national body for SME development, an independent SME training consultancy specialising in multimedia training and a specialist marketing communication company.

This article by David Crane references the Impact Group's paper "Understanding the Disappearance of Early-stage and Start-up R&D Performing Firms" to talk about what's wrong with our innovation/knowledge economy. Among many things, our VC environment is stunted and our businesses should work more closely with customers on addressing their needs rather than focussing on new technology. Read the original white paper at http://www.impactg.com/pdf/disappearanceofstartupsandearlystagefirms.pdf The article also references the paper by the Council of Canadian Academies which urged more business innovation. http://www.scienceadvice.ca/innovation.html

Creative Places and Spaces: Collaborative City Conference, day two was held at the MaRS building. Participants heard about the difference between invention and innovation. A strategy for implementation needs to be the next steps. Oct 30, 2009

The Creative Places and Spaces conference continued for a second day Friday, exploring how collaboration can foster innovation and lead to breakthroughs in city-building. Oct 31, 2009

"Traffic congestion in the Toronto region costs Canada $3.3-billion a year in lost productivity the Globe and Mail reports. An Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development report found included that governments should invest more in initiatives like Toronto'd MaRS Discovery District. Nov 10, 2009

Clean Energy Developments sells and installs geothermal energy systems. The technology not only heats and cools buildings cheaply and efficiently, but it's also environmentally friendly. Nov 20, 2009

Emerald Ventures' Scott MacDonald talks to the Financial Post about the promise of Canadian cleantech ventures. They'll be highlighting that in the event they're co-hosting at MaRS, "Building Successful Canadian Cleantech Companies" . It's all part of the latest MaRS Capital event series.

Out of the 100 largest economies in the world, about half are multinational corporations. Given their impact on global communities, it is increasingly essential that these large corporations execute responsibility to society, rather than rely on governments and non-profits to address difficult social issues alone

Peter Raaymakers from Open File states that "Sparks Street Mall benefit from some kind of enclosure ... old buildings covered by glass roofs would help preserve the facades ... one example of this is the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto).