Entrepreneurs Educating Entrepreneurs

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TiE Institute will offer workshops of 3-hour each starting from September 15th.  The participants will receive 1-on-1 mentoring from successful entrepreneurs and also get opportunities to present their projects to venture capitalists. This is designed specifically to improve their entrepreneurial success by refining their skills and ideas.  Here is a link to our  TiE Institute [...]

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Jean-René Halde, CEO of BDC, Delivers Keynote “Competitiveness Starts with Innovative Entrepreneurs”

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Part of BDC’s Small Business Week Oct 16-22 Panel Discussion Moderated by John Switzer, RIC Chair. Jean-René Halde, president and CEO of the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), says competitiveness starts with entrepreneurs. “They’re ambitious for their firms. And they define innovation broadly – creative, incremental improvements of many kinds that can take many [...]

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RIC’s Innovate or Die a Success!

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Keynote speaker Andrew Maxwell shared insights into the top ten reasons why companies fail to innovate successfully and how to cultivate an atmosphere that fosters innovation at all levels of an organization, regardless of its size or stage of business. The session was a prelude to U of T School of Continuing Studies Certificate in [...]

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2011 National Angel Summitt – Nov 28-30

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Join NACO in Canada’s capital city for the Angel community’s premier national event! Share ideas, opportunities, best practices and challenges with your colleagues, and learn from thought leaders in the Angel community. “Early Bird” tickets are on sale until September30th! Register today to save 20%! Dates: November 28th to 30th CLICK HERE FOR THE DRAFT [...]

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Former ‘Dragons’ Den’ co-star W. Brett Wilson invests in ‘Risky Business’ series

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TORONTO – Former “Dragons’ Den” co-star W. Brett Wilson says he’s proud of his work on the CBC-TV business investment series, and he’s thankful for what the show did to raise his brand. But the Calgary-based businessman and philanthropist feels his new Slice series “Risky Business” falls more in line with his personal principles than [...]

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Webinar: Creating Business Value with Toxics Reduction

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Summary The Bloom Centre for Sustainability (BLOOM) is hosting a complimentary webinar to demonstrate how toxics reduction planning can enhance business value for Ontario’s manufacturing sector. Find out how BLOOM’s on-site technical assistance with cost-shared funding can help manufacturers address their environmental priorities, including toxics reduction, and improve their bottom line. The funding assistance for [...]

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Action Plan for Innovation

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Mississauga Urged to Embrace Innovation: Report MISSISSAUGA, ON – WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2011 – A 10-point “Action Plan for Innovation in Mississauga” submitted today to the City of Mississauga and the RIC Centre in Mississauga is a milestone as the City takes steps to become a global centre for creativity and innovation. Pam Banks, executive [...]

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The ecoENERGY Innovation Initiative

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The Next Phase of Canada’s Economic Action Plan is marked by the newly launched ecoENERGY Innovation Initiative (ecoEII) – a new program that received $97 million in funding from the Government of Canada. ecoEII is intended to support energy technology innovation in five key areas: energy efficiency, clean electricity and renewables, bioenergy, electrification of transportation, [...]

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Popular eBusiness Course Now at UofT Mississauga

If you’re looking to tap into the growing potential of eBusiness, the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies (SCS) is now offering the popular SCS 2115 Tools & Fundamentals of eBusiness course at the UofT Mississauga campus starting Sept 14th. E-Business & Web Marketing are at the heart of a rapidly expanding, innovative revolution [...]

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SmartFutures: Student Design Competition

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Do you have an idea for a smart device app for electric vehicles and charging stations? Here is your chance to put it into motion….. For the second year, there is a student competition associated with the DSEA conference. The 2011 conference is scheduled for November 2 -3, 2011 and is titled “SmartFutures: Connecting Energy, [...]

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Roche Canada invests $190 million in Global Pharma Site in Mississauga

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Roche makes significant investment to establish a global site for Pharmaceutical Development in Canada Ontario Government helps create 200 highly-skilled jobs in life sciences Mississauga – August 16, 2011 – Roche Canada is pleased to announce an investment of over $190 million over the next five years in a global development site, [...]

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August 2011 Issue of Regional Innovation News

The August 2011 issue of Regional Innovation News is now available online.  Click here to read the full issue or click on the links below to read items of particular interest. News from TRRA: TRRA publishes first comprehensive summary of the Toronto Region’s ICT cluster industry, academic and research strengths Survey results: Understanding the factos that [...]

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RIC Centre hosts Innovate or DIE!

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How do you increase your profitability? Raise your productivity? Ramp up workplace engagement? What differentiates success from survival in the business world? Successful innovation! RIC Centre invites you to a can’t-miss evening to introduce principles that demystify some of the conditions and processes that produce cutting-edge innovation. Keynote speaker Andrew Maxwell will share insights into [...]

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Ontario Government Appoints WaterTAP Board Chair and Members

  Minister of Research and Innovation Glen Murray has appointed the chair and board members of the Water Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP). The chair is Nicholas Parker, co-founder and Chair of the Cleantech Group.  Seven other board members have been appointed from the private and public sectors. WaterTAP was established under the Water Opportunities and [...]

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Build a Winning Application for the SDTC’s Sustainable Development Tech Fund

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How to Build a Winning Application The Statement of Interest (SOI) Workshops will provide prospective applicants with key information and practical guidance to prepare a quality SOI submission. During the workshop, the SDTC Applications team will present an overview of SDTC funding mandate, which includes the development and demonstration of new Canadian clean technology innovations [...]

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McGuinty Government Invests In World-Leading Research

NEWS RELEASE For immediate release July 25, 2011 NEWS Ontario is helping 531 leading-edge researchers in Toronto make new discoveries that will improve the lives of people around the world and continue to create jobs here at home. Ontario’s investments in world-leading life sciences, clean technology, information technologies and other strategic areas of research at [...]

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The Canadian Cleantech Colorado Connection Initiative

The C4 The Consulate General of Canada in Denver Invites You to Accelerate Your Growth… One Mile Above Sea Level! The C4 Initiative will assist Canadian cleantech entrepreneurs to grow their business, to get to the next level and to be successful internationally. The C4 Initiative was developed by the Trade Commissioner Service in Denver [...]

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Call for Proposals for Ontario-India Collaborative R&D Projects in Biotechnology

Description: International Science and Technology Partnerships Canada (ISTPCanada), the Ministry of Research and Innovation – Government of Ontario, and the Department of Biotechnology or DBT (India) are hosting a Call for Proposals (CFP) for collaborative R&D projects between Ontario (Canada) and India.   This includes (R&D) projects that: Bring together companies, research organizations, academics and [...]

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HTX’s Morris (Mickey) Milner Award Open for Nominations

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Mississauga Board of Trade’s 2011 Business Awards of Excellence

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An annual event honouring Mississauga’s finest businesses. A great way to gain recognition in the community and increase your organization’s credibility is to submit a nomination for MBOT’s Business Awards of Excellence. RIC Centre is sponsoring the Technology&Innovation Award. This award is given to a business in Mississauga which has shown growth through implementing  technological [...]

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Sanofi Pasteur Healthcare & Biotechnology Venture Challenge 2011

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It’s time once again for the Sanofi Pasteur Healthcare & Biotechnology Venture Challenge (HBVC 2011), presented by ventureLAB and the Schulich School of Business. For the past four years, talented Schulich MBA students have competed alongside some of the best innovators in the biotechnology and life science fields in a venture challenge designed to promote [...]

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June 2011 Issue of Regional Innovation News

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The June 2011 issue of Regional Innovation News is now available online.   In company news: GE Healthcare opened its new Pathology Innovation Centre of Excellence and DVS Sciences moved into new quarters in Markham.  OCE invested in P&P Optica and C2C Link to help commercialize their promising technologies Intel invested in SecureKey Technologies while Profound [...]

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Job Posting – Program Director – Regional Strategic Resource Centre Program (ReSRC)

MaRS Program Director – Regional Strategic Resource Centre Program (ReSRC) Posted June 14, 2011   Job Title: Program Director – Regional Strategic Resource Centre Program (ReSRC) Company Name: MaRS Position Type: Program Director – Regional Strategic Resource Centre Program (ReSRC) Location: ON – Metro Toronto Application Deadline: 2011-06-30 Category: Project Management   Position Overview: The [...]

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Induce Biologics Crowned Innovator Idol III Winner

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Thank you for supporting the finale of this season’s Growing Your Business breakfast with the experts – Innovator Idol III. Sean Peel from Induce Biologics is the winner for our third season. This was a fabulous event! The presenters were engaging and the panelists provided critically relevant feedback. We introduced real-time voting technology that uses [...]

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No Idle Time For Busy RIC Centre’s Innovator Idol III Finalists

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  Mississauga, Ontario – June 8, 2011 Pam Banks, Executive Director of the Research Innovation and Commercialization (RIC) Centre, a leading member of the Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE), announced the four finalists for the upcoming Innovator Idol contest. The high profile event, scheduled June 15th at Mississauga Central Library, will feature four finalist companies [...]

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