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Assunta Krehl

New company enters growing brain fitness market - Canada Newswire - 0 views

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health care Board Members Ilse Treurnicht innovation Cogniciti

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  • Assunta Krehl on 02 Dec 09
     
    Baycrest, one of the world's leading cognitive science institutes announced today it has created a new company with MaRS, Canada's premiere innovation centre, to develop and market brain fitness products to help adults extend their memory and cognitive abilities longer in the lifespan. Baycrest will put its substantial cognitive science reputation behind a new for-profit company - Cogniciti - that will produce a suite of products, games and training protocols grounded in 20 years of aging brain research at Baycrest. Dec 2, 2009
Cathy Bogaart

Tech equalizer - NOW Magazine, June 24, 2011 - 0 views

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ict mobile women in business ncwk social innovation events mars in the media

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 27 Jun 11
     
    This article by Joe Wilson notes how women are leading "tech for change" in the developing world. All of the women interviewed were speakers at Net Change Week (which took place at MaRS in June) - and are truly leading this work globally.
Miri Katz

Globe and Mail: Time for action on innovation, not more study - 0 views

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innovation globe

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  • Time for action on innovation, not more study By BARRIE McKENNA From Monday's Globe and Mail If more recommendations from important 2008 federal report Compete to Win had been implemented, Ottawa might not still be talking about innovation deficiencies
  • If innovation was measured in the output of reports about innovation, Canada would be a world leader.We're not. We are a laggard. The report tracked Canada's progress over the past two years based on 24 different indicators, such as the percentage of GDP spent on research and development, R&D spending by businesses, investment in machinery and equipment, PhDs and high school test scores. Since the council's initial report in 2008, Canada's performance is down in 15 categories, stagnant in three and improved in just six.
  • Here's a passage from L.R. (Red) Wilson's seminal 2008 federal report, Compete to Win: "We rank poorly across almost all aspects of innovation: the creation of knowledge, the diffusion of knowledge, the transformation of knowledge and the use of knowledge through commercialization."
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  • The R&D focus should be on industry clusters that can leverage the country's natural resource wealth and traditional strengths. Think energy, water, agriculture, forestry, mining and manufacturing that serves vital Canadian needs.
  • In areas most closely linked to innovation, the progress is equally slow. Mr. Wilson, for example, urged Ottawa to look at creating tax incentives to encourage venture capital and speeding up the commercialization of intellectual property developed in universities.
  • The to-do list on the path achieving that objective is long. There's overhauling the Investment Canada and Competition acts, opening up the telecom and broadcast industries to more foreign competition, creating a national securities regulator, reforming copyright laws, eliminating remaining internal trade barriers and lowering personal income tax rates.
  • It may mean that government plays a larger role in some industries while leaving others to their own devices. That, at least, is how other similarly sized economies successfully leverage limited government funds.More study has become an excuse to put off these much tougher, but inevitable, choices.
Assunta Krehl

Three red cranes on Hospital Row signal a new future for MaRS construction - National P... - 0 views

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Tenants MaRS Phase II Phase 2 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research OICR PHO Public Health Ontario

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  • Assunta Krehl on 22 Oct 11
     
    MaRS Discovery District Phase II construction is now underway and scheduled for completion in September 2013. Public Health Ontario and Ontario Institute for Cancer Research will be the anchor tenants in the Phase II development.
Melissa Hughes

Closing in on the Crux of Impact Investing - Huffington Post - June 4, 2013 - 0 views

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 12 Jun 13
     
    "The surge of interest in impact investing is a relatively recent phenomenon, although the practice of deploying capital with the intent to create measurable social and environmental benefits encompasses and builds on decades of market-oriented international and community development, and microfinance. "
Assunta Krehl

Canadian discovers method to radically minimize scars - The Globe and Mail - May 7, 2012 - 0 views

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commercialization Rafi Hofstein Sick Kids The Hospital for Sick Children MaRS Innovation Tenants entrepreneurship life science and healthcare & life sciences

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  • Assunta Krehl on 07 May 12
     
    "MaRS Innovation (MI), The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and NovoTek Therapeutics Inc. (NovoTek, Beijing/China) have announced a strategic partnership to co-develop a therapeutic cream aimed at reducing scar formation post surgery."
Assunta Krehl

Baycrest builds cloud portal with SharePoint online - IT in Canada - January 6, 2012 - 0 views

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Baycrest MaRS collobration health care aging

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  • Assunta Krehl on 17 Jan 12
     
    Baycrest is a provides healthcare for elderly patients and is the research centre for the development of innovation on aging and brain health. Mary Allen, report from IT in Canada states "Baycrest places a good deal of emphasis on collaboration - with the University of Toronto to meet research goals, with the MaRS Discovery District for commercialization of products to maintain healthy cognitive functioning."
Assunta Krehl

What can Canada learn from Sweden's business culture? - IT Business - February 7, 2012 - 0 views

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entrepreneurship innovation MaRS Centre Sweden

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  • Assunta Krehl on 10 Feb 12
     
    A Swedish delegation comes to the MaRS Centre to share it's country challenges when it comes to fostering economic development and innovation.
Assunta Krehl

Building on Rio + 20: Canada's role and priorities in a global green economy -CPCA - Ma... - 0 views

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cleantech MaRS Advisors Jon Dogterom innovation collaboration

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  • Assunta Krehl on 02 Jun 12
     
    Th 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit to place in Ottawa and was intended to chart a course for global sustainable development. Jon Dogterom, MaRS Discovery District Lead Advisor, Cleantech was a member on the panel that discusses how canada was performing in "greening the economy."
Assunta Krehl

Toronto-based InGamer launches hockey playoff partnership that takes fantasy sports to ... - 0 views

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Clients & Tenants InGamer ICT Digital Media

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    InGamer Sports, a MaRS Client, has developed an innovative technology that takes fantasy-league sports players from "being general managers to being head coaches." According to Nic Sulsky, CEO of InGamer, the company launched "in partnership with The Hockey News and the NHLPA May 27 in time for game one of the Stanley Cup Finals -- does so by allowing gamers to interact with the games in real-time, while they are being played, using their computer or mobile device, and to interact with other gamers at the same time through social media apps."
Cathy Bogaart

Why We Need More Funding for Big Science - 0 views

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innovation economy funding government policy

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  • 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.
  • Cathy Bogaart on 24 Aug 10
     
    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.
Cathy Bogaart

OGI Invests in Personalized Medicine for Age-related Macular Degeneration - November 1,... - 0 views

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clients clients & tenants arcticdx life sciences health care diagnostics

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 02 Nov 10
     
    The Ontario Genomics Institute has given funding to MaRS life sciences client, ArcticDX. They'll use the money for studies in preparation for a Food and Drug Administration approval for their product. The funding comes through its Pre-Commercialization Business Development Fund (PBDF)
Cathy Bogaart

The Path to Prosperity - Creative Class - 0 views

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mars Innovation creativity economy

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  • How do we create the climate for innovation that will lead to new industries and jobs based on new goods and services we can sell the rest of the world?
  • We are not just calling for more creative class jobs, but for increasing the creativity content of all jobs - service as well as manufacturing and agriculture too
  • 3Ts of economic development. Technology is the first T
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  • wo other Ts - talent as Romer’s work points out and tolerance - or openness to new people and new ideas.
  • Cathy Bogaart on 27 Feb 09
     
    The Martin Prosperity institute believes that an innovation strategy has to be tied to creativity and place and the ecosystem ("city"). Here they critique a blog by David Crane which critiques the recent MPI report.
Assunta Krehl

Addictive Campaign Captures Mobile Award - eSource Canada Business News Network - 0 views

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awards & competitions 2009 MobileMonday Toronto Marketing Award MobileMonday Toronto

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  • Addictive Mobility and its Brisk iPhone campaign as the winner of the 2009 MobileMonday Toronto Marketing Award.
  • Mobile Media World 09 is one of the key anchor events of MOBILEINNOVATIONWEEK in Toronto September 12-16, 2009.
  • The September 8th award event was held at the MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto. Since announcing the partnership with MaRS in February 2009, MobileMonday Toronto has experienced explosive growth with monthly attendance exceeding 250+ attendees and has received general appreciation for the chapter's approach in supporting all stakeholders within the mobile industry which includes telecom providers, agencies, advertisers, device manufacturers, startups, venture capital and developers in addition to many industry verticals such as search, m-commerce, advertising, and media.
  • Assunta Krehl on 11 Sep 09
     
    Addictive Mobility and its Brisk iPhone campaign was the winner of the 2009 MobileMonday Toronto Marketing Award. The award event was held on Sept 8, 2009 at the MaRS Centre. Sept 10, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Ontario research organizations join forces - ITBusiness.ca - 0 views

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collaboration

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  • Three technology research centres in Ontario Monday said they have agreed to work together to help the province compete more effectively against countries like India and China.
  • Communitech is working with the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation, an economic development corporation located in the nation's capital, and the MaRS Discovery District, a Toronto-based not-for-profit geared towards the commercialization of scientific and technological intellectual property.
  • MaRS originally stood for Medical and Research Sciences, but has since shied away from that label, said Ross Wallace, director of corporate strategy. The organization doesn't want to be pigeonholed as being just a life sciences or biotechnology outfit -- it lends equal weight to information communications and advanced manufacturing. MaRS may be Toronto-based, but its mandate is province-wide, said Wallace. By joining forces with organizations in other parts of Ontario, MaRS is more likely to fulfill that mandate, he said.
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  • The three organizations have agreed their partnership will function under the name the MaRS Network. MaRS is by far the youngest of the three organizations – Communitech is almost a decade old and OCRI is about 25 – but has become a business force since it opened last year.
  • The three organizations aim to share best practices and contacts, and lean on the strengths of their respective regions. All three may have good venture capital resources, for example, but specialties that may be peculiar to a certain area.
  • Dale added that the MaRs Network is open to working with other Canadian technology organizations, including those with a national or a regional focus.
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09
     
    Communitech, the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation, and the MaRS Discovery District have ageed to work together to help the province compete more effectively against countries like India and China. These three companies partnership will function under the name MaRS Network. May 29, 2005
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09
     
    Communitech, the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation, and the MaRS Discovery District have ageed to work together to help the province compete more effectively against countries like India and China. These three companies partnership will function under the name MaRS Network.
Sarah Hickman

MaRS Discovery District - Recommended Resources - Funding & Financing Resources - The E... - 0 views

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economy innovation commercialization research & development finance venture capital

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  • Sarah Hickman on 08 Sep 09
     
    (Deutsch Bundesbank) This paper attempts to evaluate the macroeconomic impact of venture capital (VC). The authors test the assumption that Venture Capital is similar in several respects to business R&D performed by large firms and therefore contributes to economic growth through two main channels: innovation and absorptive capacity.
  • Sarah Hickman on 08 Sep 09
     
    (Deutsch Bundesbank)\nThis paper attempts to evaluate the macroeconomic impact of venture capital (VC). The authors test the assumption that Venture Capital is similar in several respects to business R&D performed by large firms and therefore contributes to economic growth through two main channels: innovation and absorptive capacity.
Assunta Krehl

Clean energy comes to the coffee table - Clean Break - 0 views

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cleantech Tom Rand

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  • Is green, renewable energy a sexy enough topic to be the centrepiece of a coffee table book? Tom Rand, who leads cleantech development at Toronto’s MaRS Centre, believes so
  • a book that will expose a broader section of the population to the issues, technologies and opportunities around renewable energy. Rand has written a soon-to-be-released book called Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies To Save Their World.
  • This is an accessible package, cleverly assembled and pleasant to look at, while at the same time making it enjoyable to learn about the technologies that, while seemingly “alternative” or “new” today, are destined to become a dominant and permanent way of energizing future generations and the economies that support them.
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  • The plan is to distribute it through mainstream outlets such as Starbucks to coincide with the big climate-change conference coming up in December in Copenhagen. It will be released in October.
  • Assunta Krehl on 03 Sep 09
     
    Tom Rand, MaRS Practice Lead in Cleantech, will be releasing his book called Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies To Save Their World in October 2009. This book will expose the broader population to the issues, technologies and opportunities around renewable energy.
  • Assunta Krehl on 03 Sep 09
     
    Tom Rand, MaRS Practice Lead in Cleantech, will be releasing his book called Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies To Save Their World in October 2009. This book will expose the broader population to the issues, technologies and opportunities around renewable energy. Aug 30, 2009
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