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Sarah Hickman

MaRS Discovery District - Recommended Resources - Social Innovation - Centre for Social... - 0 views

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social innovation

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  • Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09
     
    "The Centre for Social Innovation is a place-based hub of ideas, people, services and strategies. In partnership with Urbanspace Property Group, they provide 18,000 square feet of shared workspace in downtown Toronto. The Centre for Social Innovation is home to a community of nonprofits, charities, social enterprises, artists, green businesses, and individual innovators. Working together, they lower costs, create synergies, and spark new ideas for advancing their shared interests. The Centre for Social Innovation explores new ideas in collaboration, social entrepreneurship and systems change. These interests guide their work. Their website only offers a subscription to their email newsletter, Social Innovator's Update. Join to receive information on news and events in this space."
Assunta Krehl

Cleantech startups to watch - Financial Post - 0 views

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Skymeter Corp. clients & tenants Tom Rand Advisors cleantech transportation

shared by Assunta Krehl on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Assunta Krehl on 25 Nov 09
     
    Skymeter Corp eveloped a technology that uses GPS to trigger a small electronic meter fitted to the car and automatically sends the charges to the driver's account. The concept of charging works the same as automatic toll-road systems, which many people are already familiar with. However, the GPS technology is more versatile and enables the meter to charge according to zone or kilometre driven. Nov 23, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Clean Energy Developments - Business News Network - After Hour - 0 views

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cleantech energy Clean Energy Developments clients & tenants

shared by Assunta Krehl on 25 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Assunta Krehl on 25 Nov 09
     
    Clean Energy Developments sells and installs geothermal energy systems. The technology not only heats and cools buildings cheaply and efficiently, but it's also environmentally friendly. Nov 20, 2009
Assunta Krehl

DeckChair to provide Seneca College with e-learning assessment technology - Canada News... - 0 views

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education Innovation clients & tenants The Innovations Group at University of Toronto

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  • Assunta Krehl on 02 Dec 09
     
    Seneca College awarded $2.3 million in federal research funding to improve aviation education in Canada.DeckChair Learning Systems, an online learning company, will provide e-learning and assessment technology to Seneca's renowned School of Aviation and Flight Technology research team. The multi-year project will investigate innovative simulation technologies to train and test pilots. Dec 1, 2009
Assunta Krehl

High-tech helps cities track drivers - Financial Post - 0 views

www.financialpost.com/story.html

Skymeter Corp. transportation cleantech clients & tenants

shared by Assunta Krehl on 30 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Assunta Krehl on 30 Nov 09
     
    Skymeter on road to success with automatic fee system.
Cathy Bogaart

Guardly Turns iPhone into Personal Security Guard - GigaOm, Apr 7, 2011 - 0 views

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guardly ict mobile clients

shared by Cathy Bogaart on 08 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Cathy Bogaart on 08 Apr 11
     
    GigaOm features the launch of Guardly's mobile app. A MaRS client, Guardly's product provides a single-tap, multi-target alert system for iPhones or the iPod touch.
Assunta Krehl

How realistic is Wall Street meltdown movie Margin Call? We asked the experts - The Sta... - 0 views

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cleantech Advisors Tom Rand

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  • Assunta Krehl on 03 Dec 11
     
    Laura Stone, Toronto Star reporter, reviews the movie Margin Call where a young analyst discovers a fatal flaw in the company's system - one that threatens to bring down the entire American financial industry and evaluates how realistic it is by interviewing 3 experts. Tom Rand, MaRS Senior Cleantech Advisor is one expert that was interviewed.
Assunta Krehl

CABA announces BiQ award recipients - Cabling Network Systems Magazine - January 25, 2012 - 0 views

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MaRS awards & competitions technology Business Intelligence Quotients Awards BiQ

shared by Assunta Krehl on 09 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Assunta Krehl on 09 Feb 12
     
    "The Continental Automated Buildings Association this week announced the recipients of its inaugural Building Intelligence Quotient (BiQ) Awards. The annual awards recognize property owners and operators whose buildings achieve the highest rank using CABA's building technology assessment tool. MaRS Discovery District was one of the 2012 Gold recipients"
Assunta Krehl

Kicking out the jams - The Star - 0 views

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Skymeter ICT Wireless Communications

shared by Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • 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
Assunta Krehl

Science City - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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MaRS McEwan Centre for Regenerative Medicine Ontario Institute for Cancer Research John Evans

shared by Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • 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.
  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    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.
  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    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

Toronto's place in the "creative economy" - Excalibur - 0 views

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Creativity Clients_Tenants Martin Prosperity Institute

shared by Assunta Krehl on 25 Sep 09 - Cached
  • What is this creative economy? It is an economic system that relies most on ideas to serve as its major capital, instead of services or physical capital. Take Google for example. In an economy based on ideas, the potentialfor breakaway successes like Google is far greater.
  • According to Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class: And How it’s Transforming Work, Leisure,Community and Everyday Life, members of the creative class are very different from those who are employed in the manufacturing, service or agriculture industries. They contribute to our economy primarily by producing the new forms and ideas exploited by our various industries and decision-makers.   What Florida terms the “super creative core” of this new class includes “scientists and engineers, university professors, poets and novelists, artists, entertainers, actors, designersand architects, as well as the ‘thought leadership’ of modern society: non-fiction writers, editors, cultural figures, think-tank researchers, analysts and other opinion-makers.”
  • What sets a creative city apart from a non-creative city? Florida proposes that it is the “three Ts of economic development”: technology, talent and tolerance.
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  • Florida promote a drawback on new capital investments in such traditional creative staples as ballet, opera, symphony and museums. Although these are necessary public entertainment options to maintain, studies show the majority of university students and young to middle-aged professionals who make up the bulk of the emerging creative class, in fact, prefer more accessible venues.
  • Florida is not saying the city should fund the construction of all these venues, but should support them with entrepreneurial assistance, specified tax-cuts and governmenttools to ease operation, like streamlining the bureaucracy behind applying for liquor licences and permits for musical events and public attractions.
  • The MaRS centre, located at College St. and University Ave. in downtown Toronto, is a fantastic first step in better integrating the city’s creative talents in the technology and science fields. But more buildings and communities like this need to be developed to take advantage of all of Toronto’s creative economic potential.
  • Assunta Krehl on 25 Sep 09
     
    David Tal contributer to Excalibur exams what is the creative economy. Mention of MaRS being a fantastic first step in integrating the city's creative talents in technology and science.
  • Assunta Krehl on 25 Sep 09
     
    David Tal contributer to Excalibur exams what is the creative economy. Mention of MaRS being a fantastic first step in integrating the city's creative talents in technology and science. Sept 23, 2009
Assunta Krehl

"Good Intentions and Bad Investments: EHealth and the Reality of Market Forc... - 0 views

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Healthcare Medicine 2.0 Congress

shared by Assunta Krehl on 25 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship, and sociotechnical issues1:30-3:00pm MaRS CR2, Medicine 2.0 Congress, Toronto (Sept17, 2009)
  • "Good Intentions and Bad Investments: EHealth and the Reality of Market Forces"
  • "Good Intentions and Bad Investments: EHealth and the Reality of Market Forces"Presenters: Trevor D Van Mierio (Evolution Health- formerly V-CC Systems; Toronto/San Francisco, Canada), Rachel Fournir (Evolution Health, Toronto/ San Francisco, Canada), Breanne John (Evolution Health, Toronto, Canada)This presentation took more of a generic approach and discussed the state of eHealth in general without focusing on a specific product.
  • Assunta Krehl on 25 Sep 09
     
    The Medicine 2.0 Congress took place Sept 17-18. This conference in general talked about the state of eHealth in general. The presentation was held at MaRS and the topic was on consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship and sociotechnical issues.
  • Assunta Krehl on 25 Sep 09
     
    The Medicine 2.0 Congress took place Sept 17-18. This conference in general talked about the state of eHealth in general. The presentation was held at MaRS and the topic was on consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship and sociotechnical issues. Sept 17, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Made-to-measure road toll system - Canada's Most Trusted Auto Resource - Wheels.ca - 0 views

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wireless communications Skymeter

shared by Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Skymeter Corporation – a high-tech upstart that has perfected "financial-grade" GPS telematics – is being hailed as an innovator that has captured the attention of global giants such as IBM, Cisco and Siemens.
  • Hassan admits while North America may not be ready for road and congestion tolls, governments elsewhere are beating a path to his modest office at the MaRS business incubator at College St and University Ave.
  • While Skymeter is a relative flyweight (the company is estimated to be worth $10 million), it hopes to be the technology provider to large multinationals such as IBM and Siemens in the project tenders.
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  • Skymeter is poised to usher in smart metering and – if the execution holds true to the vision – tolls that directly fund roads that are in demand.
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    Skymeter Corporation - a high-tech upstart that has perfected "financial-grade" GPS telematics - is being hailed as an innovator that has captured the attention of global giants such as IBM, Cisco and Siemens. Mention of MaRS as a business incubator. Feb 14, 2009
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    Skymeter Corporation - a high-tech upstart that has perfected "financial-grade" GPS telematics - is being hailed as an innovator that has captured the attention of global giants such as IBM, Cisco and Siemens. Mention of MaRS as a business incubator.
Assunta Krehl

Skymeter protects all your driving secrets - IT Business - February 18, 2010 - 0 views

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cleantech transportation clients & tenants Skymeter Corp.

shared by Assunta Krehl on 19 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Cathy Bogaart on 19 Feb 10
     
    Visualize a global positioning system (GPS) device that knows where you've parked, and for how long. Imagine it can send this information directly to a company that will bill you, without allowing that company to spy on you. Skymeter, a MaRS client and tenant, is profiled in IT Business in a video interview.
  • Assunta Krehl on 22 Feb 10
     
    Skymeter has developed a GPS-enabled device that's in direct communication with a satellite orbiting the Earth. The GPS enables drivers to conveniently (and accurately) make good their bills for services such as parking, toll road use, and pay-as-you-go insurance.
Tim T

Wanted: A New Biz Model for Electric Power - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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Business Model

shared by Tim T on 20 Dec 09 - Cached
  • a radical departure from the traditional utility business model: making more money by selling more power
  • a smart grid that allows any entrepreneur to be a power generator or a vendor of energy-efficient systems, threaten utilities' monopolies
  • You are not making a lot of money anymore building big power plants," says Wellinghoff. "You have to figure out what business you are in
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  • Here's how a utility can make more by selling less. Instead of spending $2 billion on a new 1,000-megawatt power plant, say, the utility decides to spend $2 billion or less insulating homes, paying customers to install more efficient equipment, and making the grid smarter. Taking those steps would slash power consumption by more than 1,000 Mw, eliminating the need to build the power plant and cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the same time
  • $2 billion investment
  • Even though the price of electricity will be higher, customers who comply will be using much less power (and those who don't will effectively subsidize those who do)
  • The new model isn't a sure thing
Tim T

County facing 'worst' budget scenario - LA Daily News - 1 views

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economy business jobs

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.
Tim T

Web publishers left with little after middlemen split ad spoils | Marketing & Advertisi... - 0 views

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ICT advertising

shared by Tim T on 27 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • In a not-atypical scenario, a publisher may only receive $1 of a $5 cost-per-thousand media buy once all the middlemen have taken their tithes. Where does the rest go? According to an estimate from Tolman Geffs, co-president of investment bank Jordan Edmiston, it gets divided like this: The agency ($.75), ad network ($2), data provider ($0.75), ad exchange ($0.25) and the ad server ($0.25).
  • The space between advertiser and publisher has become jam-packed over the last decade, with literally hundreds of ad networks, data companies, yield managers, ad servers and exchanges all purporting to serve advertisers or publishers in some unique way; but all have their own business models that may or may not be adding value to either.
  • they're all dipping into the display-ad revenue stream.
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  • what parts of the online display-ad ecosystem, estimated by eMarketer to be worth $7.9 billion in 2010, are adding value for publishers or brands, and what parts are preventing the flow of brand dollars into the system.
  • While some publishers remain wary of Google as both a service provider to publishers as well as a competitor for display-ad dollars, Google's argument is that its motivations are virtuous. As VP-Product Management Susan Wojcicki said last week at the Internet Advertising Bureau's annual meeting, Google makes money when publishers do. That, and the set-up isn't much different from Microsoft, itself a seller of online ads as well as a service provider to publishers.
  • Any time you have companies talking about their secret algorithms or black boxes, it should raise a red flag, he said. For publishers and advertisers, the question should be: Do they make the whole thing bigger and better?
  • Tim T on 27 Mar 10
     
    AdAge - In a not-atypical scenario, a publisher may only receive $1 of a $5 cost-per-thousand media buy once all the middlemen have taken their tithes. Where does the rest go? According to an estimate from Tolman Geffs, co-president of investment bank Jordan Edmiston, it gets divided like this: The agency ($.75), ad network ($2), data provider ($0.75), ad exchange ($0.25) and the ad server ($0.25).
Cathy Bogaart

Advances in tooth decay and STD detection, solar power shown at MaRs innovation fair - ... - 0 views

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clients life sciences health care medical devices quantumdental xagenic

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 06 Apr 11
     
    MaRS clients are featured in the Globe and Mail on the occasion of the announcement of MaRS' addition to the Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE). Clients included in the gallery of technology : Quantum Dental's Canarie System, a non-invasive dental technology; Xagenic, with an advanced STD detection; Sustainable Energy Technologies with their solar technology.
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