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Assunta Krehl

New company enters growing brain fitness market_FirstScience News - 0 views

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    Toronto's Baycrest centre is staking a claim to a piece of the booming brain fitness market with a new company, Cogniciti, and a new generation of brain games aimed at helping baby boomers keep their minds sharp and boost their productivity in the workplace well into old age. Alvaro Fernandez, a researcher on aging, says the new games are designed to keep older brains nimble. Hon. Milloy states "The McGuinty government is proud to support the work that both MaRS and Baycrest are doing to improve quality of life and tackle the challenges of an aging population. Ontario is supporting innovators across the province to ensure this kind of success is the rule, not the exception." Dec 2, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Ontarians honoured for achievement - National Post - January 26, 2010 - 1 views

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    Paul Godfrey, president and CEO of the National Post, War Child Canada founder Dr. Samantha Nutt, and businessman Lawrence Bloomberg topped the list of 29 Canadians named to the Order of Ontario yesterday. Lawrence Bloomberg is also a Founder and Director of MaRS.
Assunta Krehl

Google Landing @ MobileMonday Toronto Members - TMC Net - March 17, 2010 - 0 views

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    On April 5, 2010 MobileMonday Toronto invite you to listen to the insights of Alex Nicolaou and Punit Soni of Google who will be discussing the increasing utility and usage of mobile devices at the MaRS Centre.
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How to Make Wealth - 0 views

  • Remember what a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work faster. Instead of accumulating money slowly by being paid a regular wage for fifty years, I want to get it over with as soon as possible. So governments that forbid you to accumulate wealth are in effect decreeing that you work slowly. They're willing to let you earn $3 million over fifty years, but they're not willing to let you work so hard that you can do it in two. They are like the corporate boss that you can't go to and say, I want to work ten times as hard, so please pay me ten times a much. Except this is not a boss you can escape by starting your own company.
  • What is technology? It's technique. It's the way we all do things. And when you discover a new way to do things, its value is multiplied by all the people who use it. It is the proverbial fishing rod, rather than the fish. That's the difference between a startup and a restaurant or a barber shop. You fry eggs or cut hair one customer at a time. Whereas if you solve a technical problem that a lot of people care about, you help everyone who uses your solution. That's leverage.If you look at history, it seems that most people who got rich by creating wealth did it by developing new technology. You just can't fry eggs or cut hair fast enough. What made the Florentines rich in 1200 was the discovery of new techniques for making the high-tech product of the time, fine woven cloth. What made the Dutch rich in 1600 was the discovery of shipbuilding and navigation techniques that enabled them to dominate the seas of the Far East.
  • What a company does, and has to do if it wants to continue to exist, is earn money. And the way most companies make money is by creating wealth. Companies can be so specialized that this similarity is concealed, but it is not only manufacturing companies that create wealth. A big component of wealth is location. Remember that magic machine that could make you cars and cook you dinner and so on? It would not be so useful if it delivered your dinner to a random location in central Asia. If wealth means what people want, companies that move things also create wealth. Ditto for many other kinds of companies that don't make anything physical. Nearly all companies exist to do something people want.And that's what you do, as well, when you go to work for a company. But here there is another layer that tends to obscure the underlying reality. In a company, the work you do is averaged together with a lot of other people's. You may not even be aware you're doing something people want. Your contribution may be indirect. But the company as a whole must be giving people something they want, or they won't make any money. And if they are paying you x dollars a year, then on average you must be contributing at least x dollars a year worth of work, or the company will be spending more than it makes, and will go out of business.Someone graduating from college thinks, and is told, that he needs to get a job, as if the important thing were becoming a member of an institution. A more direct way to put it would be: you need to start doing something people want. You don't need to join a company to do that. All a company is is a group of people working together to do something people want. It's doing something people want that matters, not joining the group.
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  • When wealth is talked about in this context, it is often described as a pie. "You can't make the pie larger," say politicians. When you're talking about the amount of money in one family's bank account, or the amount available to a government from one year's tax revenue, this is true. If one person gets more, someone else has to get less.I can remember believing, as a child, that if a few rich people had all the money, it left less for everyone else. Many people seem to continue to believe something like this well into adulthood. This fallacy is usually there in the background when you hear someone talking about how x percent of the population have y percent of the wealth. If you plan to start a startup, then whether you realize it or not, you're planning to disprove the Pie Fallacy.What leads people astray here is the abstraction of money. Money is not wealth. It's just something we use to move wealth around. So although there may be, in certain specific moments (like your family, this month) a fixed amount of money available to trade with other people for things you want, there is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world. You can make more wealth. Wealth has been getting created and destroyed (but on balance, created) for all of human history.Suppose you own a beat-up old car. Instead of sitting on your butt next summer, you could spend the time restoring your car to pristine condition. In doing so you create wealth. The world is-- and you specifically are-- one pristine old car the richer. And not just in some metaphorical way. If you sell your car, you'll get more for it.In restoring your old car you have made yourself richer. You haven't made anyone else poorer. So there is obviously not a fixed pie. And in fact, when you look at it this way, you wonder why anyone would think there was.
Assunta Krehl

Physician melds research and entrepreneurship - The Globe and Mail - April 9, 2010 - 0 views

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    Carly Weeks, a Globe and Mail reporter interviews Dr. Calvin Stiller. "Dr. Stiller was named a recipient of a prestigious Canada Gairdner Award and always had a dire need to fix the imbalance of research and commercial development in the country's life sciences. He says he has always had an entrepreneurial spirit, which inspired him to work with colleagues to create centres such as the Toronto-based MaRS Discovery District."
Assunta Krehl

Cal Stiller answers more of your questions - The Globe and Mail - April 19, 2010 - 1 views

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    Dr. Cal Stiller, who was recently named a recipient of a prestigious Canada Gairdner Award, fielded questions from readers in an online discussion.
Assunta Krehl

Toronto took extreme measures to reach the top - Les Affaires - March 27, 2010 - 2 views

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    The story about the MaRS Discovery District as a super-incubator.
Assunta Krehl

It starts with sexy mice ... - The Globe and Mail - April 10, 2010 - 0 views

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    Calvin Still who helped founded MaRS Discovery District and was a Gairdner Award Winner recipient says "Canada lacks the venture capital needed to finance research for groundbreaking treatments." Dr. Min Zhuo, a U of T researcher is connecting the dots from sexual attraction to treatments for chronic pain.
Assunta Krehl

SiG at Waterloo presents Innovators in Action speaker series - University of Waterloo - May 4, 2010 - 0 views

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    Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of MaRS Discovery District, is one of the five Canadian leaders in the field of social innovation who will share their insights on how to deal with the root causes of social challenges at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Treurnicht will be speaking on June 16 about the growing importance of multi-sectoral collaboration which promotes the mutual exchange of ideas, values, talent and capital across sectors.
Assunta Krehl

New nation builders are here - National Post - September 3, 2011 - 1 views

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    Amoryn Engel stated "Galen and Hilary Weston celebrated our country's next generation of high impact entrepreneurs through a new and innovative program, The Next 36." Ilse Treurnicht, CEO MaRS Discovery District was in attendance.
Assunta Krehl

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

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    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

CIX Seeks Canada's Top 20 in Digital Media - Mediacaster Magazine - August 22, 2011 - 0 views

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    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

Canadian Innovation Exchange launches registration for 4th annual conference in Toronto Dec. 1 - Yonge Street Media - August 24, 2011 - 0 views

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    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

Business News Network - Business Day - MaRS Expansion - July 26, 2011 - 1 views

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    Glen Murray, Ontario Minister of Research and Innovation is interviewed by BNN regarding Ontario assisting MaRS Discovery District phase two expansion. 
Assunta Krehl

Day Two at Creative Places and Spaces: Collaborative City Conference - Spacing Toronto - 1 views

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    Creative Places and Spaces: Collaborative City Conference, day two was held at the MaRS building. Participants heard about the difference between invention and innovation. A strategy for implementation needs to be the next steps. Oct 30, 2009
Assunta Krehl

ARISE Technologies Announces Appointment of New Chairman and Changes to Senior Management Team - Canada Newswire - 0 views

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    RISE Technologies Corporation, a leader in high-performance, high-quality, cost-effective solar technology, today announced the appointment of Mr. Peter Harder as Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors. Mention of William White being on the Board of Directors for MaRS Discovery District. Nov 11, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Showcase Exhibition Area to Feature Leading Companies at Ontario Innovation Summit: The Business of Aging - Canada Newswire - 0 views

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    The Ontario Innovation Summit: The Business of Aging - Dec. 1-2, 2009 - will feature some of the world's top experts on the many issues that the aging of the global population poses for communities, governments, academic and health-care institutions, and businesses. The Summit's audience of technology, health care and business leaders will explore the profound public policy challenges as well as the growing opportunities associated with the aging demographic phenomenon. The Summit's Science & Technology Showcase will give organizations a unique opportunity for exposure to this influential audience. Nov 10, 2009
Assunta Krehl

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

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    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
Assunta Krehl

Richard W. Ivey joins Board of Directors at MaRS - Canada Newswire - 0 views

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    MaRS Discovery District has appointed businessman and philanthropist Richard Ivey to its board of directors. Feb 19, 2009
Assunta Krehl

MaRS Innovation appoints President and CEO - Canada Newswire - 0 views

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    MaRS Innovation appoints Rafi Hofstein as President & CEO. June 1, 2009
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