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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.

Raymond Hui, a principal investigator with the University of Toronto's Structural Genomics Consortium, has transformed himself from a robotics engineer to a genetic engineer and now searches for cures for some of the world's most devastating diseases.

Read up on the best innovation bloggers as voted by the readers of "Blogging Innovation".

Rich Bendis blogs and has a daily newsletter supporting the growth of the entrepreneurial innovation economy in America.

Thought the Internet was big for business? Just wait until clean technology takes off, says Tom Rand.

Will alternative energy ever take the place of traditional fossil fuels, or is our thirst for oil unquenchable? BNN asks Michael Economides, professor, University of Houston, and Tom Rand, practice lead in the Cleantech and Physical Sciences department in Toronto's MaRS Discovery District.

Ambit is headquartered in San Diego but they also have a lab tenanted at MaRS. And they've just raised $15 million! Congrats!

The Ontario Genomics Institute has given funding to MaRS life sciences client, ArcticDX. They'll use the money for studies in preparation for a Food and Drug Administration approval for their product. The funding comes through its Pre-Commercialization Business Development Fund (PBDF)

Accolades for MaRS ICT client OpenFile from Wayne MacPhail, a journalism prof and general news guru. He uses OpenFile with his students and says OpenFile is hyperlocal, fully engaging communities in their own coverage.

Which mobile social photo app should you use? Maybe MaRS client, Burstn. ReadWriteWeb compares the apps: their strengths and features and Burstn is looking good against the competitors.

Toronto and Canadian success story: MaRS plays an important role as Intel buys Canadian start-up CognoVision. CognoVision helps advertisers measure the effectiveness of in-store marketing.

GreenHeroes, a website and TV show, tells the story of people who are "venturing forth" to change the planet. In their blog, they talk about MaRS as a place where science, business and innovation collide in a riot with academia, government, community leaders, private and not-for-profit sectors. We're listed here as a resource for social innovators, in good company with other organizations who want to help entrepreneurs with a social mission.

This blog talks about the strong social innovation community in Toronto. About MaRS, they say : "it's the most popular tag for the MARS blog"

Lucas Samuels spotlights MaRS client, PushLife Inc, on their weekly radio show. Hear and watch what they say about this Toronto start-up.

MaRS client, Wave Accounting, launches their online accounting application that is the first integrated online application to track users' business and personal finances. TechVibes' Karim Kanji reports on the benefits to SMEs.

Mark Evans, Canadian digital strategist, talks about MaRS client, Wave Accounting. He explains and positively assesses the free online software for SMEs

MaRS client, Cognovision is acquired by Intel, reports TechCrunch. Cognovision creates digital signage technology for advertisers and retailers.

Matt Galloway spoke with Ilse Treurnicht. She is Chair of the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance which just released the report, Mobilizing Private Capital for Public Good.

Smart pricing of transport as embodied by MaRS client, Skymeter is one of Scientific American's "World Changing Ideas".