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Assunta Krehl

CIX 2011 Opens Registration - Village Gamer - August 16, 2011 - 0 views

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MaRS events Canadian Innovation Exchange board members Ilse Treurnicht

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  • Assunta Krehl on 31 Aug 11
     
    The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) will be held at the MaRS Centre on December 1, 2011 and showcase an elite index of innovative companies. Ilse Treurnicht CEO of MaRS Discovery District will be present.
Assunta Krehl

Want eco-friendly towers? Start by digging deep - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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Cleantech Advisors Tom Rand

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  • Assunta Krehl on 09 Nov 09
     
    Four new luxury towers going up in downtown Toronto have missed the opportunity to tap into geothermal energy - and reduce their energy footprints accordingly. Tom Rand, the clean-tech adviser at MaRS (the non-profit innovation institute in Toronto's downtown hospital district) is the owner of the Planet Traveller eco-hotel soon to open just west of the MaRS complex, on College Street.Rand had grown cynical about the "greenwashing" of the hotel industry (properties trumpeting themselves as eco-friendly because they provide daily new towels and sheets only on request). He determined, instead, to create a low-carbon hostel for young travellers. Nov 6, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Sparks Street with a roof: Why not? - 0 views

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MaRS

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  • Assunta Krehl on 22 Oct 11
     
    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).
Assunta Krehl

MaRS opens a new home for Toronto startups - Techvibes.com - October 28, 2011 - 0 views

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ICE MaRS Commons MaRS entrepreneur

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  • Assunta Krehl on 29 Oct 11
     
    "The Information technology, Communications and Entertainment (ICE) practice at MaRS announces a new home for the most promising emerging companies, the MaRS Commons. The MaRS Commons provides both a physical space and a community that supports entrepreneurs in growing successful global businesses."
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Video: Wilf Dinnick talks J-Source Award win | J-source.ca - 0 views

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client open file marscommons ice award

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 01 Feb 12
     
    #MaRSDD congratulates @WilfDinnick on his Newsperson of the Year Award
Assunta Krehl

MobileMonday Toronto Hosts Global Mobile Leadership Summit - Marketwire - 0 views

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mobile MobileMonday Global Mobile Leadership Summit

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  • On October 5th, MobileMonday Toronto will host a Global Mobile Leadership Summit with a panel of veteran business leaders who will share their knowledge, thoughts and experiences on opportunities and challenges for Canada to become more of a global leader in mobile and communications.
  • The panel of three leaders will be led by a moderator with questions and answers open to the audience. The event is being held in conjunction with MobileMonday Toronto's partnership with MaRS.
  • The October 5th meeting will take place at the MaRS facility, located at 101 College Street (south east corner of College and University) The meeting starts at 6:00pm. To attend, please RSVP at www.mobilemondaytoronto.com.
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  • MaRS (www.marsdd.com) is a non-profit innovation centre connecting science, technology and social entrepreneurs with business skills and capital to stimulate innovation, entrepreneurship and the creation of successful Canadian companies.
  • Assunta Krehl on 29 Sep 09
     
    On October 5th, MobileMonday Toronto will host a Global Mobile Leadership Summit with a panel of veteran business leaders who will share their knowledge, thoughts and experiences on opportunities and challenges for Canada to become more of a global leader in mobile and communications. The event will be held at the MaRS Centre. Sept 28, 2009
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

Open Business: Top 150 Blogs for Entrepreneurs - 0 views

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blog entrepreneur best practices

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  • 100 http://blog.marsdd.com
  • Here is the list of the top 150 blogs that I find relevant for entrepreneurs in general, with a bias for high tech and social entrepreneurship and a special interest on the funding side.
  • kathryn mars on 19 Feb 09
     
    Top 150 blogs for entrepreneurs - Note MaRS made the list!
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  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    MaRS Blogs ranked 100 in the Top 150 Blogs for Entrepreneurs. The top 150 blogs contain relevant information for entrepreneurs in general, with a bias for high tech and social entrepreneurship and a special interest on the funding side.
  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    MaRS Blogs ranked 100 in the Top 150 Blogs for Entrepreneurs. The top 150 blogs contain relevant information for entrepreneurs in general, with a bias for high tech and social entrepreneurship and a special interest on the funding side.
  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    MaRS Blogs ranked 100 in the Top 150 Blogs for Entrepreneurs. The top 150 blogs contain relevant information for entrepreneurs in general, with a bias for high tech and social entrepreneurship and a special interest on the funding side.
Assunta Krehl

Kicking out the jams - The Star - 0 views

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Skymeter ICT Wireless Communications

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  • 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
Cathy Bogaart

Rotman Initiative for Women in Business | Next Steps: A Program for Experienced Women E... - 0 views

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education women in business business entrepreneurship leadership

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 23 Sep 09
     
    The Next Steps program gives you the confidence and skills you need to take your business to the next level. Interact with a senior-level advisory panel of accomplished women entrepreneurs, and gain knowledge from peer mentors who have shared your business challenges. The six-module format allows you to take what you learn and apply it immediately.
Assunta Krehl

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Lisa Torjman Net Change Week social technology

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  • Net Change is a week-long event, June 8-12, 2009, designed to explore how social technology can bolster social change. Presented by the Social Innovation Generation team at MaRS (SiG@MaRS), Net Change Week will tap into the potential that exists when new methods of communicating, organizing and mobilizing are brought to bear on chronic social issues.
  • Eli Malinski sounds off on Net Change: "Social technology is revolutionizing social change.
  • Net Change is the banner under which all sorts of partners are hosting events, discussions and workshops that align with the core mission of exploring the intersection of social change and new media.
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  • * Social Tech Training, or My Charity Connects * Innovation Parkour * Social Mastermind // Social Media for Social Change * The Skills Exchange * Defining and Measuring Social Success And in the evenings, Net Change brings unique community collaborations like: * Mobile Monday takes a social change perspective * Toronto's Internet Town Hall at the Gladstone Hotel * Cocktails and Inspiration: a discussion on profound innovation and social change with Eric Young in conversation with Bill White. * Wired Wednesday gets a dose of Web of Change * Refresh Events encourages collaborative partnerships
  • Net Change's ticketed and free events are taking place at the MaRS Centre. For more information on events and how to be involved, check out http://www.netchangeweek.ca.
  • Assunta Krehl on 07 Aug 09
     
    Lisa Torjman's blog on Net Change Week happening June 8-12, 2009 which is designed to explore how social technology can bolster social change.
Assunta Krehl

Year in ideas: Stem-cell science grows up - National Post - 0 views

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stem cell therapeutics

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  • Gordon Keller, a senior stem-cell scientist who works out of Toronto's MaRS centre, also pointed to the potential for studying genetic diseases in a culture dish.
  • cientists have been working at a rapid pace over the past year to refine a process that allows them to replicate human embryonic stem cells, without the controversial use of a human embryo. It involves genetically reprogramming adult stem cells to an embryonic, or pluripotent, state.
  • Embryonic cells remain the "gold standard,"
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  • scientists have pinpointed a number of advantages IPS cells could have over embryonic cells.
  • Indeed, the International Society for Stem Cell Research teamed up with a number of leading scientists in September to issue an open letter reiterating the need for government support of all types of stem-cell research. The letter points out that research efforts on both embryonic and IPS cells "are in fact complementary and synergistic," noting that without the past decade of human embryonic stem-cell research, scientists would not have been able to realize their recent successes in reprogramming adult cells.
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    Scientists have been working at a rapid pace over the past year to refine a process that allows them to replicate human embryonic stem cells, without the controversial use of a human embryo. Mention of Gordon Keller, a senior stem-cell scientist working out of the MaRS centre.
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    Scientists have been working at a rapid pace over the past year to refine a process that allows them to replicate human embryonic stem cells, without the controversial use of a human embryo. Mention of Gordon Keller, a senior stem-cell scientist working out of the MaRS centre. Jan 2, 2009
Assunta Krehl

T.O. Tidbits - Sunday February 1st - Taste T.O. - 0 views

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Mercatto

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  • The long-planned third location of casual Italian eatery Mercatto (110 College Street) should finally be open in April in the north-east corner of the MARS Building
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    Mention of Mercatto in the MaRS Centre.
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    Mention of Mercatto in the MaRS Centre. Feb 1, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Ever Been To MaRS? - Flickr - 0 views

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mars

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  • 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
Tim T

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Apple App Store

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  • Monthly app store report
  • T-Mobile announced it will enable customers on post-paid accounts with devices running Android 1.6 to pay using their T-mobile account
  • Beginning December 9th, customers will receive an update to Android Market that enables them to choose between paying using their Credit card or T-mobile account
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  • customers will only be able to pay for applications using operator billing when the application developer has set the price in USD
  • Motorola will launch its own app store for its Android based phones
  • Shop4Apps
  • This is not the first store that will offer Android applications outside Google’s Android Market
  • Already several independent stores for Android are available, but Motorola is the first big handset vendor to launch one.
  • MotoAppstore
  • Since Android is an open platform, it is possible to install stores besides Google’s Android Market
  • The problem however is that most of the new independent Android stores are not pre-installed on the device
  • The Orange Application Shop was launched this week during the Le Web conference in Paris
  • Samsung Bada applications are coming in the first half of 2010 and will very likely be distributed via the Samsung Application Store
  • The Nokia Ovi Store is reaching close to 1 million downloads per day
  • Apple promoted a set of applications in the App Store during Black Friday. This promotion greatly influenced rankings and downloads of the featured applications
  • Samsung is holding a launch event in London next week December 8, to kick-off Samsung Bada
  • Tim T on 20 Dec 09
     
    Apple App Store
Tim T

iPhone Dev Center: iPhone Human Interface Guidelines: Human Interface Principles: Creat... - 0 views

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iphone ICT

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  • A great user interface follows human interface design principles that are based on the way people—users—think and work, not on the capabilities of the device
  • a beautiful, intuitive, compelling user interface enhances an application’s functionality and inspires a positive emotional attachment in users.
  • model your application’s objects and actions on objects and actions in the real world.
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  • This technique especially helps novice users quickly grasp how your application works. Folders are a classic software metaphor. People file things in folders in the real world, so they immediately understand the idea of putting data into folders on a computer.
  • iPhone OS users enjoy a heightened sense of direct manipulation because of the Multi-Touch interface. Using gestures, people feel a greater affinity for, and sense of control over, the objects they see on screen, because they do not use any intermediate device (such as a mouse) to manipulate them.
  • An iPhone application is better than a person at remembering lists of options, commands, data, and so on. Take advantage of this by presenting choices or options in list form, so users can easily scan them and make a choice. Keeping text input to a minimum frees users from having to spend a lot of time typing and frees your application from having to perform a lot of error checking. Presenting choices to the user, instead of asking for more open-ended input, also allows them to concentrate on accomplishing tasks with your application, instead of remembering how to operate it.
  • Your application should respond to every user action with some visible change.
  • Keep actions simple and straightforward so users can easily understand and remember them
  • Whenever possible, use standard controls and behaviors that users are already familiar with.
  • appearance has a strong impact on functionality: An application that appears cluttered or illogical is hard to understand and use.
  • Aesthetic integrity is not a measure of how beautiful your application is. It’s a measure of how well the appearance of your application integrates with its function. For example, a productivity application should keep decorative elements subtle and in the background, while giving prominence to the task by providing standard controls and behaviors.
  • An immersive application is at the other end of the spectrum, and users expect a beautiful appearance that promises fun and encourages discovery.
  • appearance still needs to integrate with the task.
Assunta Krehl

Some good news in Canada's investment community, but there's a lot of bad too - Backbon... - 0 views

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investment MaRS Centre

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  • Assunta Krehl on 08 Sep 11
     
    Mark Noonan and Bruce Chin from Deloitte Canada state, "Canadians must be willing to look at a wide set of reform options, and work to open our borders to foreign investment." In addition, John Ruffolo, the senior vice-president of knowledge investment at OMERS, who spoke at the Innovations Across Borders conference in March 2011 at the MaRS Centre states, "There are two types of investment. Straight common shares or very simple preferred shares. Every other complexity will be eliminated. This is focused on the upside, rather than downside protection."
Assunta Krehl

Toronto's Creative Places and Spaces opens doors to entrepreneurs - National Post - 0 views

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Creative Places + Spaces creativity

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  • Assunta Krehl on 26 Oct 09
     
    Creative Places + Spaces is one of the world's leading forums on creativity. This year's event will engage global perspectives on collaboration and connect them with local change makers. Oct 26, 2009
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.
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