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Assunta Krehl

Maxime Bernier itching to cut 2,300 small business 'irritants' - IT Business - November... - 0 views

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    According to Nestor Arellano from IT Business, "The small business and tourism minister, who also heads Ottawa's Red Tape Reduction Commission, says the government has been in entrepreneurs' pockets and backs long enough." Maxime Bernier, Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism spoke at the Small Business 2011 conference at the MaRS Discovery District.
Assunta Krehl

New Kid - Advisor.ca - October 1, 2011 - 0 views

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    According to May Jeong, reporter of Advisor.ca, "impact investment-is being recognized as the newest asset class on the financial block." The Centre for Impact Investing is designed to be the hub for all thing in social finance.
Cathy Bogaart

Why We Need More Funding for Big Science - 0 views

  • Why We Need More Funding for Big Science
  • fundamental research and technological development
  • Often wildly speculative, expensive, and with no explicit commercial purpose, this research nonetheless has a powerful spillover effect in the long term.
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  • We're riding on innovations that happened 20, 30, 40 years ago. One has to keep having ideas."
  • "You cannot have innovation without a fount of new knowledge -- and that is what research is about,"
  • has laid the foundation for much of America's economic growth over the past half a century.
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    R&D has laid the foundation for economic growth, giving us fuel cells, computer databases, the Internet, satellite navigation -- unexpected spillovers of R&D funding. To stay competitive in the innovative industries, government funding, it is argued, is required to continue.
Assunta Krehl

AGORACOM Founder, George Tsiolis, to Speak at Mesh, Canada's Leading Web Conference - R... - 0 views

  • George Tsiolis, Founder and President of AGORACOM will be speaking at Mesh, Canada's leading Web conference, being held at the MaRS Centre in Toronto on April 7th & 8th.
  • Mesh is the result of event organizers believing that Toronto deserved to have a world-class conference where people with an enthusiasm for the Web could talk about how it is affecting the media, marketing, business and society as a whole.
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    George Tsiolis, Founder and President of AGORACOM will be speaking at Mesh, Canada's leading Web conference, being held at the MaRS Centre in Toronto on April 7th & 8th.
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    George Tsiolis, Founder and President of AGORACOM will be speaking at Mesh, Canada's leading Web conference, being held at the MaRS Centre in Toronto on April 7th & 8th. April 6, 2009
Assunta Krehl

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

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    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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