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Cynthia Goh, guest columnist, Globe and Mail states that the path of commercializing research is a "painfully gradual and meandering." Cynthia Goh, created "a lecture series to train scientist-entrepreneurs that later evolved into Entrepreneurship101 at Toronto's MaRS Discovery District - possibly the largest training program in Canada with about 1,500 registered participants each year. "

"Diamond Schmitt Architects will design research laboratory space for the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) at the MaRS Phase II west tower currently under construction in downtown Toronto." MaRS Phase II occupancy is slatted for 2013.

Toronto is a globally competitive centre for groundbreaking basic and clinical research, with historical and current strengths in areas including new cancer therapeutics, stem cell research and development, genomics, bioinformatics, and the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools for every imaginable disease process.

Ten people and businesses have been selected as the 2010 winners of Ontario's Premier's Innovation Awards. For the Summit Awards, the sponsoring institutions for the winners include MaRS Discovery District, The Hospital for Sick Children, and The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital.

Operating out of Toronto's MaRS Discovery Centre, Arctic DX's seven employees take existing research on genetic markers and develop diagnostic tests for disease.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a maker of scientific instruments and related technologies, has paid $260 million in cash to acquire Fermentas International Inc., an Ontario, Canada-based maker and distributor of enzymes, kits and reagents for molecular and cellular biology research.

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is applying the newest concepts in life sciences-stem cell therapies, personalized medicine-to one of the oldest diseases.

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is a new center of excellence. It is moving Ontario to the forefront of discovery and innovation in cancer research

Ontario is known for its groundbreaking science and it now starting to recognition for biotech. MaRS Discovery District is a nonprofit corporation founded in 2000 to help commercialize Ontario's research.

Kevin Stolarick has a four-point plan to make Atlantic Canada grow. The research director of Toronto's Martin Prosperity Institute says his process is not an easy fix of the region's trend of so-called brain drain, but he can offer some lessons from his travels.

Polar Mobile, Jigsee, MMB Research and Seragon are four MaRS Clients that were listed as part of the top 10 Canadian mobile and wireless companies to watch for.

Looks like Toronto/Ontario/Canada is not the only place having problems... A report released by the Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based think tank, finds that while New York City is home to several of the world's leading scientific research institutions, these universities and research centers have not yet become powerful catalysts for entrepreneurship and local economic development the way similar institutions have in a number of other regions. The study concludes that New York has long failed to harness the full potential of its pre-eminent academic research institutions to build a meaningful innovation economy; an enormous missed opportunity given that the city desperately needs to diversify its economy and cultivate new engines of job growth.

Michael J Fox introduced his Parkinson's disease foundation at the MaRS Centre in Toronto Sept 24, 2009.

Michael J Fox introduced his Parkinson's disease foundation at the MaRS Centre in Toronto Sept 24, 2009.

From the Policy Research Initiative, this is the federal government's policy paper on social innovation: defining it and the players within the sector.

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.

MaRS connects our clients with the Consulate of Canada in San Diego through a program called MarketLink. MarketLink connects large companies to start-ups with new technology. MMB Research and Talking Plug were able to pitch their cleantech IT technology to Sony.

Two MaRS cleantech clients, MMB Research and Talking Plug present their technologies to Sony.

MaRS, located across the street from the provincial legislature in a renovated former hospital, opened its doors five years ago next month, in the same year the Ministry of Research and Innovation came into being.

Newcomer Magazine writes about MaRS as a business incubator -- a place for newcomers to make connections, find a job, or start a business. They highlight tenants Kanata Chemical Technologies, AXS Biomedical Animations Studio and Clera Inc.

Coordinating research to build the social economy

Research at the University of Toronto