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Miguel Amante

Young Social Entrepreneurs of Canada are Launching Canada's First Social Venture Incuba... - 0 views

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social innovation social entrepreneurship ysec clients & tenants youth

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  • Miguel Amante on 04 Aug 10
     
    The Young Social Entrepreneurs of Canada will be launching Canada's first accelerator program helping young people aged 17-34 launch social ventures.
Miguel Amante

Never Mind the Valley: Here's Toronto - ReadWriteStart - July 29, 2010 - 0 views

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Toronto technology ICT entrepreneurship entrepreneurs social innovation

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  • Miguel Amante on 04 Aug 10
     
    "Obviously it's no Silicon Valley," says Sprouter Community Manager Erin Bury, "but it's definitely a thriving community with a ton of tech entrepreneurs, some great funding opportunities, and a hopping event scene."
Cathy Bogaart

We Are Media - Materials - 0 views

www.wearemedia.org/Materials

social media marketing strategy web ict

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 04 Aug 10
     
    Social media strategy templates: download the "tactical approaches and tools" and "strategy simulation game" . Made for non-profits, but applicable to for-profit businesses as well. From We Are Media's two-day intensive workshop.
Cathy Bogaart

Why Do So Many Companies Suck at Social Media? - Online Marketing Blog - 0 views

www.toprankblog.com/...companies-suck-social-media

ict web social media

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    You can suck. As long as you learn from it. As long as you: Listen. Create. Engage. Be open. Be brave. Test. Change. Make money. (Or achieve whatever your outcome is supposed to be.)
Cathy Bogaart

Philips Livable Cities - because cities can be better - 0 views

www.because.philips.com

policy awards & competitions innovation

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 10 Aug 10
     
    Have you got a simple idea that could improve the health and well-being of people living in cities? Enter this Philips initiative and you could receive one of three Award grants totalling €125,000 to help translate your idea into reality.
Cathy Bogaart

iStart - Biz plan competition software - 0 views

istart.org/home.php

web ict software awards & competitions

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 16 Aug 10
     
    Software for running and administering a business plan competition from the Kauffman Foundation.
George Botos

Mozilla Firefox Start Page - 0 views

www.google.ca/firefox

life-science financing Sentinelle

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  • George Botos on 17 Aug 10
     
    Sentinelle Medical is now a Hologic company! Way to Go Cameron!
Tim T

The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility - WSJ.com - 0 views

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Social

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  • Tim T on 23 Aug 10
     
    "The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility "
Cathy Bogaart

Social innovation: Let's hear those ideas | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/16789766

social entrepreneurship social innovation

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 23 Aug 10
     
    In America and Britain governments hope that a partnership with "social entrepreneurs" can solve some of society's most intractable problems.
Miguel Amante

MaRS centre signs commercialization agreement - 0 views

www.canhealth.com/News1467.html

MaRS Innovation life sciences

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  • Miguel Amante on 24 Aug 10
     
    MaRS Innovation (MI) has signed a co-funding agreement with the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science and Technology to capitalize and accelerate the use of Toronto-based life-sciences technologies during the early stages of pharmaceutical and medical device development.
Miguel Amante

IT company grows with Ontario aid - Simcoe.com - August 18, 2010 - 0 views

www.simcoe.com/...862735

ice ict investment accelerator fund iaf financing raising capital

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  • Miguel Amante on 24 Aug 10
     
    Barrie-based IT company gShift Labs qualifies for Investment Accelerator Funding.
Tim T

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine - 0 views

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Internet Trend

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    US Total Internet Traffic
Cathy Bogaart

Why We Need More Funding for Big Science - 0 views

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innovation economy funding government policy

shared by Cathy Bogaart on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Why We Need More Funding for Big Science
  • fundamental research and technological development
  • Often wildly speculative, expensive, and with no explicit commercial purpose, this research nonetheless has a powerful spillover effect in the long term.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • We're riding on innovations that happened 20, 30, 40 years ago. One has to keep having ideas."
  • "You cannot have innovation without a fount of new knowledge -- and that is what research is about,"
  • has laid the foundation for much of America's economic growth over the past half a century.
  • Cathy Bogaart on 24 Aug 10
     
    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.
Miguel Amante

Turning ideas into businesses - theVARSITY.ca - August 24, 2010 - 0 views

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clients_tenants commercialization innovation MaRS Innovation IPO

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  • Miguel Amante on 25 Aug 10
     
    The Varsity looks at the work of the Innovations and Partnerships Office, located in the MaRS Centre.
Cathy Bogaart

Distility CEO Axle Davids on BusinessCast, the podcast for entrepreneurs. - 0 views

www.distility.com/...-the-podcast-for-entrepreneurs

distility clients & tenants marketing branding

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 30 Aug 10
     
    Axle Davids, CEO of MaRS client and tenant, Distility, speaks on The BusinessCast, an iTunes podcast for entrepreneurs.
Miguel Amante

Leadership in Focus: Allyson Hewitt - Charity Village - September 7, 2010 - 0 views

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social innovation social entrepreneurship SiG advisors Allyson hewitt

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 07 Sep 10
     
    Allyson Hewitt, Practice Lead for the social innovation practice at MaRS, talks about leadership in the nonprofit sector. Find out what makes a leader great.
  • Miguel Amante on 20 Sep 10
     
    Charity Village interviews Allyson Hewitt, Director of Social Entrepreneurship at SiG@MaRS.
Cathy Bogaart

Voting for Innovation « Blog by Earl Miller | Vote Toronto 2010 - 0 views

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events Toronto policy government economy

shared by Cathy Bogaart on 07 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Cathy Bogaart on 07 Sep 10
     
    Earl Miller, Director, Strategic Partnerships at MaRS, writes on the Toronto Board of Trade about the upcoming mayoral debate at MaRS. In the aftermath of a global financial crisis, cities are looking for ways to generate growth. Find out how the mayoral candidates will support that growth at the September 8th debate at MaRS.
Miguel Amante

Pay-as-you-drive meter poised to enter market - thestar.com - September 4, 2010 - 0 views

www.thestar.com/...toronto-approaching-grush-hour

clients & tenants skymeter ICE transportation innovation

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 07 Sep 10
     
    Bern Grush of Skymeter, a MaRS tenant and client, talks about metering car-use. Why is it the way of the future? Pay for your use of the roads, pay for your use of fossil fuels, pay for your contribution to city-road congestion. It's about making better cities and a cleaner environment. All it takes is the Skymeter satellite technology!
  • Miguel Amante on 20 Sep 10
     
    Bern Grush's company, Skymeter, makes a GPS-based system capable of tracking every inch a vehicle travels, how long the trip takes and where it is on the road.
Cathy Bogaart

PushLife is music to RIM's ears - 0 views

www.financialpost.com/...story.html

clients pushlife ict mobile

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 13 Sep 10
     
    The Financial Post reports that PushLife is helping RIM level the playing field between it and the iPhone. They're now collaborating with a former RIM employee -- now an entrepreneur and MaRS client, Raymond Reddy of PushLife. The application allows customers to sync their existing music libraries on their PCs or Macs with new tunes purchased from mobile music venues without having to install a software program that replaces their existing media players such as iTunes.
Cathy Bogaart

THEREDPIN INC | TheRedPin.com Makes Buying New Condos in Toronto and The GTA Simple and... - 0 views

www.newswire.ca/...c9679.html

clients ICT web clients & tenants

shared by Cathy Bogaart on 15 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Cathy Bogaart on 15 Sep 10
     
    MaRS client, TheRedPin.com launches their new site for helping condo buyers in Toronto.
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