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Cathy Bogaart

New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets - Conversation Starter - Harvard... - 0 views

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    Interesting research on the difference between twitter and other online social media. Men and women act differently here. Bottom line: (online) relationships are complicated!?
Cathy Bogaart

Canadian Immigrant : Top 25 Canadian Immigrants - 0 views

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    Tomorrow, MaRS hosts our 2nd extended citizenship ceremony. Sixty New Canadians along with their family and friends will take their oath right here in the MaRS Auditorium. Interesting to hear from one of our own community, Dr. Rosalind Silverman, a postdoctoral fellow with TGH and UofT Medicine, who won first-ever Top 25 Canadian Immigrants awards. Read her (and her sister, a a postdoc at UofT Medicine) story. This is why MaRS is involved in stuff like this: culturally diverse cities are also the most innovative (or so says Richard Florida). If we want to excel in the knowledge economy, we should all celebrate our cultural diversity!
Cathy Bogaart

Plucking 'low hanging fruit' on energy tree - with MaRS Advisor, Tom Rand - 0 views

  • The groundswell of geothermal interest among builders, developers and individual homeowners all over the GTA is mainly because it's what "green" venture capitalist Tom Rand calls "low hanging fruit" on the energy tree – easy to pluck and very cheap in the long run.
  • It has special appeal in large-scale operations, something Rand covers in a book he is working on. "I didn't think it was possible to go 100 per cent renewable but the studies support it.''
  • He claims that "if you drill 10 kilometres down to the really high temperatures, you can make enough energy to supply the whole U.S. with between three and 30,000 times more energy than it needs."
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  • It might be said that the Planet Traveler hotel in Kensington Market, in which Rand is a partner, is a bit of a test case. Although it appeared initially that geothermal wouldn't be possible on such a tight city lot, Rand approached the city about using the lane behind the hotel to sink his geothermal pipes.
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    The groundswell of geothermal interest among builders, developers and individual homeowners all over the GTA is mainly because it's what "green" venture capitalist and MaRS Advisor Tom Rand calls "low hanging fruit" on the energy tree - easy to pluck and very cheap in the long run. Tom talks about the opportunities available to enterprising, innovative businesses.
Cathy Bogaart

BiomedExperts: Scientific Social Networking - 0 views

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    BiomedExperts is a literature-based scientific social network. It brings the right researchers together and allows them to collaborate online. Collexis and Dell provide the BiomedExperts network of +1.5 Million pre-calculated profiles free of charge to researchers worldwide. There are maps of which scientists have worked with whom as well as a listing of their papers.
Cathy Bogaart

Milken Institute Publications - Research Reports - Capital Access Index 2008: Best Mark... - 0 views

  • infrastructures that support entrepreneurial activity by providing access to capital
  • Canada, with its stable equity market and a sound economic policy framework, was able to withstand some of the global credit market issues and moved to first place in the Milken Institute’s 2008 Capital Access Index.
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    Canada ranks #1 in global access to capital index from Milken Institute, apparently thanks to our stable equity market and sound economic policy framework. That means entrepreneurs here have more support than elsewhere in the world. And we're STILL complaining about lack of start-up money? Think about how hard it must be to be everyone else.
Cathy Bogaart

Stanford Social Innovation Review - 0 views

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    Stanford Social Innovation Review
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    Shares insights and practical experiences that will help those who do the important work of improving society do it even better. Strategies, tools, ideas for non-profits, foundations, socially responsible businesses.
Cathy Bogaart

wetoku - immediate video blogging - 0 views

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    A former MaRS tenant is now at an innovation lab in Seoul, Korea. He wrote to us and said that "Being around the great minds [at MaRS] while my poorly planned and funded venture fizzled was a great education for me." He's working on this, a site for bloggers to do interviews online in video.  The meetings are recorded, and the blogger can embed the meeting into a website instantly.
Cathy Bogaart

Entrepreneurs doing good | Saving the world | The Economist - 0 views

  • The temple has a conference room equipped with state-of-the-art audio-visual aids. Its board of directors includes several leading software billionaires and their wives, providing it with money as well as connections.
  • The monks are entrepreneurs as well as holy men, one moment talking about reincarnation and the next about sustainable delivery models.
  • he temple provides 200,000 local schoolchildren with free meals every day.
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  • purpose of feeding India’s rural poor. He invested $1m—and many years of his life—in breeding a superchicken
  • invented a “lapdesk” that sits on the child’s lap and provides a stable surface. The desks are covered in advertisements, so Mr Immelman is able to hand them out free,
  • In the long run, however, the best thing that entrepreneurs can do for the poor may be simply to see them as workers and customers.
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    The Economist shows how different entrepreneurs around the world are creating businesses with the goal of improving the world, while still making money: social entreprenuership
Cathy Bogaart

Tungle - Scheduling Made Easy - 0 views

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    Canadian (Montreal) start-up! Web based software that helps you schedule meetings with people on different calendaring systems.
Cathy Bogaart

Nonclinical IVDs: Growing interest in a growing field - 0 views

  • Manufacturers of human IVD technologies have been contributing their skills and knowledge more and more to the nonclinical and agricultural diagnostic markets.
  • To learn more about why IVD manufacturers are making the switch from human diagnostics and testing to agricultural and other nonclinical diagnostics, IVD Technology editor Richard Park spoke with Rocky Ganske, president and CEO of Axela Inc. (Toronto)
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      Axela is a MaRS client.
  • Axela sells to the $20-billion life sciences market with its current platform, focusing first on protein-research applications, and enabling and capturing applications for downstream personalized medicine and human diagnostics.
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  • Our technology allows us to work directly in a variety of sample types that are difficult for other technologies to detect pathogens in without some additional sample preparation. So that led to people who were doing BSE (mad cow)–type testing asking if we could do tests for protein directly in matrices like milk or brain homogenate, and people asking for testing in plant extracts and things like that because other technologies don’t have that capacity.
  • Because it’s an attractive market, you see large diagnostic companies like Bayer Animal Health move some of its testing platforms that it would use for diagnostics into animal health testing
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    MaRS Client, Axela, talks about moving from human protein testing into the agricultural markets -- the challenges and the opportunities.
Cathy Bogaart

teenentrepreneurblog.com - 0 views

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    RenegadeCEOs.com - all for youth entrepreneurs (under the age of 19). Complete with cool, down-to-earth words, videos, blogs, communities (invite-only, for the top-quality entrepreneurs!?) and other goodies. Love that this is for youth, but has GREAT stuff for ALL entrepreneurs and I love the no-BS straight talk.
Cathy Bogaart

The Path to Prosperity - Creative Class - 0 views

  • How do we create the climate for innovation that will lead to new industries and jobs based on new goods and services we can sell the rest of the world?
  • We are not just calling for more creative class jobs, but for increasing the creativity content of all jobs - service as well as manufacturing and agriculture too
  • 3Ts of economic development. Technology is the first T
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  • wo other Ts - talent as Romer’s work points out and tolerance - or openness to new people and new ideas.
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    The Martin Prosperity institute believes that an innovation strategy has to be tied to creativity and place and the ecosystem ("city"). Here they critique a blog by David Crane which critiques the recent MPI report.
Cathy Bogaart

GO2WEB20 Blog: Women in Technology - 50 Powerful Females - 0 views

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    Women in technology a list of bloggers.
kathryn mars

The Big Biofuels Blog - 0 views

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    Blog on biofuels
Cathy Bogaart

The Top 50 Social Entrepreneur Blogs To Watch In 2009 - 0 views

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    The Top 50 Social Entrepreneur Blogs To Watch In 2009 from Evan Carmichael. Includes Treehugger and Gristmill in the "News" section as well as the School for Social Entrepreneurship in the "Organization" section.
Cathy Bogaart

TO Revenue - 0 views

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    Discussing the Creation of Revenue Streams from Innovation and Technology - the unofficial blog of GrowthRoute Ventures, the independent consulting company founded by Greg Boutin to serve innovation-based ventures. Includes info on entrepreneurship, government programs, commercialization and funding for ventures.
kathryn mars

Canadian BioTechnologist2.0 - 0 views

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    Canadian Biotechnology
Cathy Bogaart

www.newbiologyventures.com - New Biology Ventures - 0 views

  • New Biology Ventures is a life-sciences focused venture capital incubator.   We invest in early stage opportunities through the creation and maturation of start-up companies that focus on the development and commercialization of therapeutic biopharmaceuticals. We change the economics of drug development through our unique combination of expertise in finance and structuring companies along with the capability to efficiently and effectively commercialize drugs.  
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    New Biology Ventures is a life-sciences focused venture capital incubator. They invest in early stage opportunities through the creation and maturation of start-up companies that focus on the development and commercialization of therapeutic biopharmaceuticals. They change the economics of drug development through their unique combination of expertise in finance and structuring companies along with the capability to efficiently and effectively commercialize drugs.
Cathy Bogaart

The Great Reset - The Atlantic (February 11, 2009) - 0 views

  • What economic crises do is reset the conditions for technological innovation and consumption and demand.
  • If you look at past crises—like the one in the late 19th century and the one that came with the Great Depression—they tended to last about 20 years from beginning to end. But most importantly, these are periods of great technological innovation, and they’re periods in which our economic geography gets completely and massively shifted.
  • we really have to invest in the creativity of each and every individual
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    Richard Florida, urban theorist and lead of the Martin Prosperity Institute housed at MaRS, wrote an article for The Atlantic and this his interview follow-up (web exclusive). He says that it's always been the economic upheavals that have caused the most innovation. Stop artificially supporting dead industries and let the innovative ones organically replace them.
Cathy Bogaart

Go to MaRS - 0 views

  • We measure our success through the companies that emerge after receiving help from MaRS
  • MaRS does not just provide research space, they are bringing business people, people with money
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    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.
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