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Assunta Krehl

The Big Apple's 'silicon alley' architect comes to Toronto - IT Business.ca - July 17, ... - 0 views

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    According to IT Business, "Seth Pinsky who is spearheading the construction of a new $2-billion tech engineering campus in New York City ... shared his vision of cities as innovation hubs at the Innovation City conference that was held at the MaRS Centre, July 18 & 19 in Toronto.
Assunta Krehl

The collector vs. the director: Bob Rennie and the VAG - The Globe and Mail - August 11... - 0 views

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    Bob Rennie is among the most powerful people in Vancouver and is an art collector, a provocateur and a condo king. Rennie spoke at the Innovation City event that was held at the MaRS Centre. Rennie is interested in the health of a city and wants to city-build.
Assunta Krehl

The digital city: IBM's Guru Banavar on traffic, politics and Toronto - The Globe and M... - 0 views

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    Guru Banavar, CTO, Global Public Sector, IBM spoke at the Innovation City conference at the MaRS Centre on July 18 & 19, 2012 where he talked about how using data can help the physical infrastructure of a city.
Assunta Krehl

Which city's residents report having the best quality of life? - The Globe and Mail - J... - 1 views

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    According to an Angus Reid public opinion poll, Calgary is reported to have the best quality of life out of Canada's four largest cities. Acording to Jane Switzer, a report from The Globe and Mail, the "Angus Reid poll was commissioned for CityAge Media's The Innovation City summit." The summit will take place at the MaRS Centre, July 18 and 19th and will explore the new ideas, technologies and partnerships that will build the 21st century city, and why - and how - Metro Toronto and Canada will be a leader in this urban century.
Assunta Krehl

MaRS Discovery District - News - News Releases - 2009 - Toronto's MaRS Discovery Distri... - 0 views

  • Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District has combined the creative genius of science and technology with the drive of entrepreneurs and capital to create a marriage that will see more Canadian ideas commercialized in this country and for those efforts it has won the Canadian Urban Institute’s 2009 Creative City Award to be granted to MaRS on June 5 at the Urban Leadership Awards in Toronto.
  • “MaRS has found a creative way for science and business to collaborate rather than compete and to help Canada become a knowledge-based economy. This award recognizes them as a leader in stimulating the creative capacity of the city and advancing entrepreneurship, not only in science and technology but also in social ventures. 
  • Located in the Discovery District of Toronto, where billions of dollars of creative capital are created every year, the MaRS Centre first opened in 2005 in two new towers that bookend a heritage building that once housed the Toronto General Hospital. The three buildings, that total 700,000 sq. ft, house labs, companies of all sizes, business advisors and investors. Its professional services include hands-on advisory services, entrepreneurial programming and both structured and electronic networking. A second building phase of the MaRS Centre will add 750,000 sq ft and is planned to open in the next few years. “The underlining reason for creating MaRS is to capture the value of Canadian discoveries and to better commercialize these innovations at home in Canada,” said MaRS CEO Ilse Treurnicht. “Hub cities like Toronto are key drivers in shaping Canada’s innovation economy. MaRS works to strengthen the pull of that hub, acting as an accelerator and building the best ideas into companies that can compete on the world stage but are anchored here,” said Treurnicht.
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    "Mention of the the Canadian Urban Institute's 2009 Creative City Award being granted to MaRS on June 5 at the Urban Leadership Awards in Toronto."
Sarah Hickman

Municipal Mind: Manifestos for the Creative City: Amazon.ca: Pier Giorgio Di Cicco: Books - 0 views

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    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.
Assunta Krehl

The Emerging Leaders Network is set to showcase the projects and ideas of Toronto's up ... - 0 views

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    On Tuesday, Dec.15, 2009, the Emerging Leaders Network (ELN) will showcase both current and future projects and ideas of Toronto's up and coming city building leaders at a studio gathering at the MaRS Discovery District. The ELN studio event will bring together the highest potential city builders of tomorrow. The advancement of the City of Toronto - including building and networking-will be the main focus of the event. Dec 8, 2009
Tim T

Los Angeles Hires a Jobs Chief - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • Los Angeles Hires a Jobs Chief
  • unemployment stuck above 12%
  • Beutner will have broad powers. About half of city government departments -- from the Port of Los Angeles to the city's sprawling Department of Water and Power utility -- will report to him
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  • In a letter Mr. Villaraigosa sent to Mr. Beutner when hiring him, the mayor said, "I recognize we need a top to bottom revitalization and refocus of our economic development team here at City Hall to make certain job creation is the overarching focus at all levels and in all offices and departments."
  • Chief Deputy Mayor Jay Carson. "We have to view every decision we make through the prism of job creation."
  • Southern California's economy has been among the hardest hit in the country. The area's housing market was one of the first to collapse. And in Los Angeles, mainstays such as the film industry have suffered as other states woo productions away with rich tax incentives
  • Last week, the city was dealt a psychological blow when Northrop Grumman Corp., the last major firm of the region's once-dominant aerospace industry, announced it was moving its headquarters to the Washington, D.C. area
  • Los Angeles has slashed services as it tries to close an $80 million budget gap
  • His annual salary is $1.
  • Some major stores that sell big-ticket items have moved to neighboring cities to avoid the high cost and difficulty of doing business there, such as delays in obtaining building permits, and a range of fees and taxes higher than most other cities in the area, business leaders said.
  • "The hardest thing is going to be to change the mindset here," Mr. Beutner said. "For the first time in a long time the city is going to be forced to change the way it does things. The most fundamental thing is to change the mindset of those who work in the city [government]. We serve business. They're our customers as opposed to the other way around."
Assunta Krehl

Building a better city - Metro News - 0 views

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    Leaders gather to propose civic initiatives. A 150 participants of the Emerging Leaders Network, an offshoot of the Toronto City Summit Alliance, gathered at the MaRS Centre for a long-scheduled session, many talked about how David Pecaut's dream of collective leadership in the city could be the best possible tribute to the civic leader who touched so many with his projects and initiatives. Dec. 16, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Energy pricing key to sustainability of Canada's big cities - Design Product News - May... - 0 views

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    The Sustainable Cities Challenge took place on May 18th, 2010 at the Royal York Hotel which featured a panel discussion from industry experts as well as a keynote speech by Peter Robinson, CEO of the David Suzuki Foundation. Tom Rand, MaRS Cleantech Practice Lead was amongst the panelists.
Assunta Krehl

Science City - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

  • This is Toronto's research district, a maze of concrete and glass where the finest minds collaborate, turning the city into a global centre of biomedical discovery.
  • Nine research institutes employing 5,000 university faculty members, 2,000 graduate students and 1,100 postdoctoral and clinical fellows lie within a 20-minute walk of each other. This biomedical cluster at the heart of Toronto is one of the largest on the continent, and is one of the 10 largest in the world.
  • Tom Hudson from Montreal; cell biologist Ben Neel from Boston; and stem-cell biologist Gordon Keller, who came to Toronto in 2006, just months after New York magazine named him one of the scientists that city could not afford to lose. Toronto is also home to Tak Mak, who discovered the "key to the immune system" T-cell receptor, and John Dick, who discovered the first cancer stem cell in 1994 and last year grew a human cancer in a lab mouse for the first time.
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  • "There's an enthusiasm in the research community that's very exciting to be part of," says Dr. Keller, who now heads the McEwan Centre for Regenerative Medicine.
  • Dr. Hudson, who left Quebec to head the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, says the city's "tremendous power" is built on a strong history: Stem-cell research began here. "It's innovative," he says of Toronto. "I've never felt closer in my research career to thinking we will have an impact. I feel my goals are going to happen here."
  • Still, John Evans, board chairman of the non-profit MaRS Centre, which helps to turn research into viable businesses, envisages a day when research is seen as a social and economic driver, and the city shines as brightly as better-known centres such as Boston and Palo Alto.
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    Tenille Bonoguore, Globe and Mail features the MaRS Centre and meets 12 of its' "best specimens." MaRS is one of the 10 largest biomedical clusters in the continent.
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    Tenille Bonoguore, Globe and Mail features the MaRS Centre and meets 12 of its' "best specimens." Bonoguore states "MaRS Centre is one of the 10 largest biomedical clusters in the continent." Jan 5, 2008
Assunta Krehl

Building a better city - Directory of Vancouver - 0 views

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    150 participants of the Emerging Leaders Network, an offshoot of the Toronto City Summit Alliance, gathered at the MaRS Centre for a long-scheduled session, many talked about how Pecaut's dream of collective leadership in the city could be the best possible tribute to the civic leader who touched so many with his projects and initiatives. Dec 16, 2009
Cathy Bogaart

Building New York City's Innovation Economy - Center for an Urban Future - 1 views

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    Looks like Toronto/Ontario/Canada is not the only place having problems... A report released by the Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based think tank, finds that while New York City is home to several of the world's leading scientific research institutions, these universities and research centers have not yet become powerful catalysts for entrepreneurship and local economic development the way similar institutions have in a number of other regions. The study concludes that New York has long failed to harness the full potential of its pre-eminent academic research institutions to build a meaningful innovation economy; an enormous missed opportunity given that the city desperately needs to diversify its economy and cultivate new engines of job growth.
Cathy Bogaart

Philips Livable Cities - because cities can be better - 0 views

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    Have you got a simple idea that could improve the health and well-being of people living in cities? Enter this Philips initiative and you could receive one of three Award grants totalling €125,000 to help translate your idea into reality.
Assunta Krehl

Creativity, innovation and film festivals - The Star - 0 views

  • At the corner of College St. and University Ave. sits a growing monument to this kind of original thinking. MaRS – short for Medical and Related Sciences – is all about a building becoming much more than the sum of its users and programming. Already, MaRS has become a global leader in biotech research; it has certainly become a city builder, creating jobs and spawning companies; and, of course, it does all this by being a creative cauldron – just like the film festival.
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    TIFF is essential for Toronto's future but corporate support lags for its new home. Small mention of MaRS becoming a great global leader in biotech research, a great city building and creating new jobs. Sept 24, 2009
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    TIFF is essential for Toronto's future but corporate support lags for its new home. Small mention of MaRS becoming a great global leader in biotech research, a great city building and creating new jobs.
Assunta Krehl

Canada's cities better places to live and work thanks to award-winning citizens | Centr... - 0 views

  • MaRS Centre, Toronto, Ontario: The Creative City Award for building creative capacity.
  • Canadian Urban Institute’s Urban Leadership Awards June 5 in Toronto.
  • The CUI has judged dozens of nominations from across Canada and selected 18 exceptional “city builders” who tackle everything from reducing poverty in Hamilton and homelessness in Vancouver to beautifying historic riverbanks in Quebec and showcasing children’s art on buses in Toronto.
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    Mention of MaRS Discovery District as one of the Canadian Urban Institute's Urban Leadership Award winners.
Assunta Krehl

Friends of WI honoured with CUI awards - Wellesley Institute - 0 views

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    Mention of MaRS Discovery District receiving the Creative City Award through the Urban Leadership Awards from the Canadian Urban Institute.
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    Mention of MaRS Discovery District receiving the Creative City Award through the Urban Leadership Awards from the Canadian Urban Institute. April 9, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Daily Exchange - 0 views

  • On June 9-11, 2009, the Martin Prosperity Institute, in partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Culture, and the City of Toronto - Economic Development, Culture & Tourism Division, will be hosting the inaugural Placing Creativity Conference at the MaRS Centre, 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • The Conference brings together diverse stakeholders from government, the private sector and the academic world to explore the importance of mapping culture in relation to creative spaces and places.
  • "The mission of Placing Creativity is to advance the understanding and practice of cultural resource mapping by developing reusable maps that showcase the cultural sector in Toronto and that can be shared with other jurisdictions and groups," said Kevin Stolarick, Research Director, The Martin Prosperity Institute.
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  • The conference, featuring international speakers such as Richard Lloyd of Vanderbilt University, will investigate cultural mapping from a number of unique perspectives and disciplines, and will support the interaction of policy-makers, academics and new researchers. Richard is author of "Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City". Other Speakers include British-based cultural policy expert Colin Mercer. The conference is an extension of the Placing Creativity partnership which investigates the interconnection between 'Place' and 'Creativity' through a number of different lenses.
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    The Martin Prosperity Institute, in partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Culture, and the City of Toronto - Economic Development, Culture & Tourism Division, will be hosting the inaugural Placing Creativity Conference at MaRS June 9-11, 2009. The conference will look at the interconnection between 'Place' and 'Creativity' through a number of different lenses.
Assunta Krehl

London to power city with energy-saving street slabs for Olympics - Everyday Money - Fe... - 1 views

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    The city of London announced Monday it will be lining its town with power-saving slabs during the Summer Olympics in 2012.
Assunta Krehl

Pecaut's young leaders carry his torch forward - The Star - 0 views

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    David Pecaut, Toronto's next city builder is in our midst. 170 of up-and-coming leaders gathered at the MaRS Centre Tuesday, as the city grieved, had hoped their founder, mentor and cheerleader would be there to see them launch their projects. But they were determined to prove Pecaut's passion and values lived on. Dec 18, 2009
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