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Assunta Krehl

Tammy Marquet Case - The Charles Smith blog: April 2009 - 0 views

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shared by Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The Osgoode Hall Law School has set up a superb program on expert forensic evidence in criminal proceedings and wrongful convictions to run in Toronto on Saturday May 9, 2009;
  • Location - MaRS Centre, 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario
  • Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09
     
    Expert Forensic Evidence in Criminal Proceedings: Avoiding Wrongful Convictions, is jointly organized by Osgoode Professional Development (the professional development program of York's Osgoode Hall Law School) and the Centre for Forensic Science & Medicine at the University of Toronto. Mention that the conference will be held at the MaRS Centre.
  • Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09
     
    Expert Forensic Evidence in Criminal Proceedings: Avoiding Wrongful Convictions, is jointly organized by Osgoode Professional Development (the professional development program of York's Osgoode Hall Law School) and the Centre for Forensic Science & Medicine at the University of Toronto. Mention that the conference will be held at the MaRS Centre. April 30, 2009
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County facing 'worst' budget scenario - LA Daily News - 1 views

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shared by Tim T on 12 Jan 10 - Cached
  • 2010-11 "will probably be the worst year for county services in recent history."
  • Hoping to close a $19.9 billion budget gap over the next 18 months
  • governor on Friday proposed $8.5 billion in cuts in health and social services and $4.5 billion in alternative funding and fund shifts
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  • If the federal government doesn't provide the state with an additional $6.9 billion requested by Schwarzenegger, the governor's budget calls for eliminating In-Home Supportive Services, CalWORKS welfare and Healthy Families programs, which provides services to millions of Californians.
  • "There are recommendations to cut more than $2.9 billion from social service programs," McIntosh said. "This action alone will further push families into poverty, putting them in a dire situation from which they may never recover."
  • Elimination of these programs will, in turn, impact other areas as well, including the criminal justice system, the homeless population and county welfare rolls. Elimination of the IHSS and CalWORKS programs would put 450,000 people out of work.
Cathy Bogaart

Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) - 0 views

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shared by Cathy Bogaart on 13 May 10 - Cached
  • Cathy Bogaart on 13 May 10
     
    ACE is a national charitable organization that is teaching and igniting young Canadians to create brighter futures for themselves and their communities. Working in partnership with business and higher education, ACE delivers experience-based programming that allows university and college students to move beyond the traditional path of post-secondary education. These students are challenged to address economic, social and environmental issues in their own entrepreneurial ventures and in their communities. ACE currently delivers two programs on over 50 university and college campuses across Canada with the involvement of over 1,700 student leaders and student entrepreneurs.
Sarah Hickman

Ministry of Research and Innovation - 0 views

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  • Sarah Hickman on 06 Oct 09
     
    MRI maintains the government's commitment to innovation. Its mandate is to: * develop an integrated innovation strategy and guide its delivery * invest in both policies and programs to deliver innovation strategy * foster a culture of innovation & showcase it to world MRI acts as: * listener to advice of experts * matchmaker between innovators and investors * supporter for researchers and innovators (school, culture, business) * promoter of research (lab to marketplace) * pursuer of big ideas (funds) The 4 main branches are: * outreach, promotion, and business development * innovation * research * commercialization
  • Sarah Hickman on 06 Oct 09
     
    MRI maintains the government's commitment to innovation. Its mandate is to: * develop an integrated innovation strategy and guide its delivery * invest in both policies and programs to deliver innovation strategy * foster a culture of innovation & showcase it to world MRI acts as: * listener to advice of experts * matchmaker between innovators and investors * supporter for researchers and innovators (school, culture, business) * promoter of research (lab to marketplace) * pursuer of big ideas (funds) The 4 main branches are: * outreach, promotion, and business development * innovation * research * commercialization
Cathy Bogaart

Jet Cooper launches Design in Residence program - Financial Post - Nov 7, 2011 - 0 views

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shared by Cathy Bogaart on 07 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Cathy Bogaart on 07 Nov 11
     
    Jet Cooper announces the launch of the Design in Residence program with Montreal's FounderFuel, Waterloo's VeloCity and Toronto's MaRS Commons. The new program - slated to start in January - will provide early stage companies at some of Canada's top startup accelerators with user experience design mentorship, resources and education.
Cathy Bogaart

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

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shared by Cathy Bogaart on 23 Sep 09 - Cached
  • 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

CNW Telbec | MARS DISCOVERY DISTRICT | Media Advisory - What do you get when you cross ... - 0 views

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Let's Talk Science All Science Challenge

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  • All Science Challenge - a science quiz competition for Grade 6, 7 and 8 students from over 15 schools in the greater Toronto area. Designed by students for students, it's a fun-filled day of competition and camaraderie that's part of a nationwide program to excite and inspire the next generation of scientists.
  • Tuesday May 19th, 2009.
  • Toronto ON.
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  • MaRS Discovery District (auditorium) at 101 College Street,
  • The Let's Talk Science All Science Challenge in Toronto
  • The All Science Challenge was developed in 2004 by Let's Talk Science outreach volunteers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., and is currently being held at 7 universities across Canada this month. The competition tests students in the subject areas of biology, biochemistry, chemistry, earth and environmental science, engineering, mathematics, psychology and physics. The top teams of students will go head-to-head to win the final elimination round, which will also feature guest judges from Pfizer Canada and the British Consulate.
  • Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09
     
    Mention of the Let's Talk Science All Science Challenge is taking place at the MaRS Centre, May 19. All Science Challenge - a science quiz competition for Grade 6, 7 and 8 students from over 15 schools in the greater Toronto area. Designed by students for students, it's a fun-filled day of competition and camaraderie that's part of a nationwide program to excite and inspire the next generation of scientists.
Assunta Krehl

Aggregate Therapeutics to play a key role in commercializing stem cell discoveries - 0 views

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Stem Cell Aggregate Therapeutics Inc MaRS Ilse Treurnicht

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  • Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09
     
    Biotechnologies au Canada: l'exemple de l'Ontario in Industrie Pharmaceutique, May 22, 2009 mentions that MaRS Discovery District is an Innovation Centre and mentions how it helps entrepreneurs to commercialize their research.
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  • Assunta Krehl on 13 Aug 09
     
    Cluster Growth Through Collaboration article in Ciencia Conocimiento Tecnologia, March 20, 2009 mentions about the MaRS story, MaRS' mission and programs and resources offered to entrepreneurs.
  • Assunta Krehl on 13 Aug 09
     
    Cluster Growth Through Collaboration article in Ciencia Conocimiento Tecnologia, March 20, 2009 mentions about the MaRS story, MaRS' mission and programs and resources offered to entrepreneurs.
  • Assunta Krehl on 13 Aug 09
     
    Cluster Growth Through Collaboration article in Ciencia Conocimiento Tecnologia, March 20, 2009 mentions about the MaRS story, MaRS' mission and programs and resources offered to entrepreneurs.
  • Assunta Krehl on 13 Aug 09
     
    From Mars to MaRS - Taking engineering innovation to the world from Globe and Mail Supplement. Article features MaRS and Krista Jones states "MaRS helps emerging start-up and entrepreneurial companies commercialize promising innovations." Jones states that "40% of MaRS Clients are engineering-based companies."
  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    Sowing the Seeds, Toronto Board of Trade member magazine, Dec 1, 2007. Skymeter Corp is working on a GPS technology for toll collection, parking management, and pay-as-you-drive insurance. The article talks about how entrepreneurs go about raising capital.
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09
     
    As stated in Burrill Canadian Biotech News, "MaRS Discovery Distruict and Canadian Stem Cell Network have entered into a partnership agreement to pursue long-term publc oro private financing for the translational development activities currently being undertaken by Aggregate Therapeutics."
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09
     
    As stated in Burrill Canadian Biotech News, "MaRS Discovery District and Canadian Stem Cell Network have entered into a partnership agreement to pursue long-term public or private financing for the translational development activities currently being undertaken by Aggregate Therapeutics."
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09
     
    As stated in Burrill Canadian Biotech News, "MaRS Discovery District and Canadian Stem Cell Network have entered into a partnership agreement to pursue long-term public or private financing for the translational development activities currently being undertaken by Aggregate Therapeutics."
Cathy Bogaart

Canada's non-profit maze - Wellesley Institute - 0 views

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shared by Cathy Bogaart on 17 Jul 09 - Cached
  • non-profit, charitable and voluntary organizations that provide programs and services
  • a troubling picture of the financial and regulatory burdens facing the third sector
  • Cathy Bogaart on 17 Jul 09
     
    The Wellesley Institute brings us a report on how the "third sector" (the sector of non-profit, charitable and voluntary organizations with programs and services) is doing in these economic and regulatory times. Chris Evans writes a blog on this report at http://blog.marsdd.com
Assunta Krehl

Do-gooders can earn a good living - 0 views

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shared by Assunta Krehl on 09 Jul 09 - No Cached
  • ore recently, Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy pledged $6-million to the Social Innovation Generation program at MaRS, established to provide social entrepreneurs with knowledge, contacts and capital.
  • Associations such as the Social Enterprise Council of Canada and the Causeway Social Finance Initiative are engaging civic and financial decision-makers to develop a more fostering environment for social enterprise.
  • Assunta Krehl on 09 Jul 09
     
    Social entrepreneurs carving out new and innovative ways of simultaneously yielding in financial, social and/or environmental returns.Canada does not have a distinct regulatory framework to guide and support social enterprises' hybrid activities. SiG at MaRS program established to provide social entrepreneurs with knowledge, contacts and capital.
  • Assunta Krehl on 09 Jul 09
     
    Social entrepreneurs carving out new and innovative ways of simultaneously yielding in financial, social and/or environmental returns. Canada does not have a distinct regulatory framework to guide and support social enterprises' hybrid activities.
Assunta Krehl

reportonbusiness.com: Failure and risk - 0 views

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Charles Plant failure MaRS entrepreneurship

shared by Assunta Krehl on 30 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Charles Plant, Managing Director of the Market Readiness Program for entrepreneurs at MaRS
  • Plant says that acceptance of failure is a cultural problem in Canada in that we tend not to reward the people who have failed. "We tend to punish people who fail whereas in Silicon Valley, they tend to reward people who have failed because they've learned lessons and can gain from that failure.
  • "I think you have to quickly acknowledge when something is a failure and have a back up plan of what you're going to do," says Plant. "Don't keep flogging a dead horse."
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  • "To make failure a learning experience, first you have to celebrate it by acknowledging in a very positive way, the person who tried something and failed. You can't hide it under a table," says Plant. "You've got to develop a system that both rewards for the attempt as well as the success. Frequently, we don't do that and that sends a bad message. The act of punishing people makes them want to stop innovating."
  • We also need to build more accountability into failure, according to Plant who says that when failures are detrimental to the economy, we can't pretend that nothing happened. "Right now, some people are being rewarded for absolutely hideous failures, such as in the banking system," says Plant, who is also a Chartered Management Accountant. "Part of the problem is accounting which does a very poor job of measuring risk. Never leave anything up to the accountants!"
  • "You have to allow people to fail in this economy," says Plant. "It's failure that leads to productivity gain and innovation."
  • According to Plant, there's a different risk tolerance in smaller companies versus big ones, although he doesn't see a real difference by industry. Whether a company tolerates or accepts risk depends largely on the nature of the company. "The more established companies probably don't tolerate failure as well so they don't actually incubate a culture of risk," says Plant. "Larger companies do a lot of things to make sure they don't fail. Smaller ones tend to favour risk because it's the only way they can get ahead. And if you're doing things that haven't been done before, then you're going to fail again and again."
  • "You need a culture that allows failure for success because without it, people become anti-failure," says Charles Plant. "Trying different things is the act of innovation. If you fail 14 times, hopefully you're going to succeed on the 15th try. Without failure, we're not going to be driving and growing the economy."
  • Innovation is the result of taking big leaps,
  • Innovation is the result of taking big leaps, but failure is often the downside of taking those leaps.
  • Cathy Bogaart on 30 Mar 09
     
    without failure, you can't drive productivity. without failure, there is no innovation. So we need to fail to improve the economy!
  • Assunta Krehl on 30 Mar 09
     
    The Globe and Mail investigates the failure and risks with businesses and innovation with business leaders, Tony Chapman, CEO of Capital C, a Toronto communications and advertising company, Charles Plant, Managing Director of the Market Readiness Program for entrepreneurs at MaRS, and Naeem 'Nick' Noorani, founder and publisher of Canadian Immigrant magazine.
Assunta Krehl

Urban Planner: December 15, 2009 - Torontoist - 0 views

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  • Assunta Krehl on 16 Dec 09
     
    On Dec 15, 2009 the ELNStudio program launched, as created by the Emerging Leaders Network (ELN). This group is an initiative of the Toronto City Summit Alliance of 2006, consisting of leaders who work in the private, public, and non-profit sectors of Toronto, and who want to improve Toronto through creative city planning. Today's conference is all about networking with other emerging leaders, as well as exploring some of the projects that ELNStudio will be working on over the coming year. Dec 15, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Idea dearth at big money sustainability summit - Environment Forum - November 2, 2011 - 0 views

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Tom Rand Advisor cleantech United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative

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  • Assunta Krehl on 04 Nov 11
     
    Tom Rand, MaRS Senior Cleantech Advisor attended the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and blogs his take on the outcome of the summit.
Assunta Krehl

Startups: Investors give education technology firms the nod - Financial Post - Septembe... - 0 views

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JOLT education entrepreneurs clients accelerator funding

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  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Sep 12
     
    Education is one field that is seeing a meteoric growth in the past two years.Trevor Koverko, co-founder of Toronto-based eProf was part of the first co-hort of entrepreneurs in the JOLT program at MaRS Discovery District who are traveling to Silicon Valley in October to meet investors to tell their story.
Assunta Krehl

MaRS Announces New Technology Accelerator JOLT - Village Gamer - April 24, 2012 - 0 views

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JOLT ICE accelerator funding Sue McGill advisors technology

shared by Assunta Krehl on 27 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Apr 12
     
    MaRS announced the creation of JOLT, a new technology accelerator dedicated to building high-growth web and mobile companies that promise to transform the way consumers and enterprises connect, work and play. JOLT will select up to 15 high-potential startups annually, providing them with space, seed financing and mentorship, as well as access to partners and some of the top angel and venture capital investors in the industry. The goal of the program is to accelerate market validation and, in turn, help these companies secure the capital and talent necessary to scale efficiently.
Assunta Krehl

MaRS Launches JOLT, Canada's Newest Startup Accelerator Venture Capital, Private Equit... - 1 views

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Advisors Sue McGill JOLT Funding Technology accelerator MaRS

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 26 Apr 12
     
    Headed by Executive Director, Susan McGill, JOLT will select up to 15 high-potential startups annually, providing them with space, seed financing and mentorship, as well as access to partners and some of the top angel and venture capital investors in the industry.
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Apr 12
     
    MaRS announced the creation of JOLT, a new technology accelerator dedicated to building high-growth web and mobile companies that promise to transform the way consumers and enterprises connect, work and play. JOLT will select up to 15 high-potential startups annually, providing them with space, seed financing and mentorship, as well as access to partners and some of the top angel and venture capital investors in the industry. The goal of the program is to accelerate market validation and, in turn, help these companies secure the capital and talent necessary to scale efficiently.
Assunta Krehl

MEDEC appoints Peter Robertson as Chair of the MEDEC Board of Directors - Digital Journ... - 0 views

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  • Assunta Krehl on 04 Jun 12
     
    "Peter Robertson as Chair of the MEDEC Board of Directors. Peter Robertson is Vice President and General Manager of GE Healthcare Canada. Peter is also a member of the management board for MaRS' Excellence in Clinical Innovation and Technology Evaluation (""EXCITE"") program."
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