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The NIH Partner Collaboration slideshow from the MaRS Best Practices event. Speaker/Presenter: Mukul Ranjan, Ph.D, Office of Technology Development, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

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An investment group that promotes positive social change

Article concerning innovation and social needs

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The april fool's article for the nerdiest of entrepreneurs - take your kids to Econoland! Briliant! The Dow Jones roller coaster?! YES.

Dedicated to the Revolutions, a theatre show by Small Wooden Shoe at Buddies in Bad Times, March/April 2009. A show about the scientific revolutions that changed the world and their effect on our lives and how we think. These guys showed up a couple of years ago at MaRS to present "I Keep Dropping Sh*t" as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival -- this one about Newton's Gravity revolution. It was a riot and a real collaboration between science and art. The format is truly innovative. Definitely a good fit for MaRS.

Shows again how innovation could potentially help us out of the recession: BOOK REVIEW -Tapping the Riches of Science: Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth by Roger L. Geiger and & Creso M. Sá

America still leads the world - comfortable with the risk-taking that is at the heart of entrepreneurialism and with some structural advantages built into their society and policies, they're continuing to lead.

10 nonprofit models that are commonly used by the largest nonprofits in the United States. (See "Funding Models" on page 37.) Doesn't prescribe a single approach for a given nonprofit to pursue. Instead, helps nonprofit leaders articulate more clearly the models that they believe could support the growth of their organizations, and use that insight to examine the potential and constraints associated with those models.

Recommended by Tammy Sturge in her CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101 lecture on HR, so you know this is a good resource for up-start entrepreneurs. If you find HR issues challenging, you are not alone! To help you address these challenges we've compiled this collection of HR articles, links and reviews.

Canada's Technology Triangle Inc (CTT) is a not-for-profit, public-private regional economic development partnership that markets the competitive advantages of the Waterloo Region to the world, and works to attract new businesses, investment and talent to the Region. As an information provider and business network facilitator, CTT is typically the first point of contact for enterprises outside the Waterloo Region interested in start-up, expansion, or relocation to the Waterloo Region. CTT's activity complements its partner municipalities, who focus on local business retention and expansion, and investment-related site location, business cost, servicing, and development approval considerations. CTT's municipal partners are the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, and the townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich.

Brent MacKinnon consults with non-profits on using social media tools to effect change. Met through STT (Social Tech Training), he's based in Toronto.

Coordinating research to build the social economy

Articles on Social Entrepreneurship