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Ontario Innovation Hubs
MARS DISCOVERY DISTRICT http://www.marsdd.com
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The MaRS Centre is in the Discovery District, between the country’s leading teaching hospitals and three major universities. It is the home to start-ups, mid-size companies, multinationals, investors, researchers, professional, service firms and retailers. With 700, 000 square feet of lab facilities and offices, MaRS has intentionally assembled a powerful mix of organizations to provide the environment for success to stimulate connections, investment and innovation.
OTTAWA CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION LIFE SCIENCES http://www.ocri.ca/lifesciences
OCRI is Ottawa’s lead economic development agency. OCRI leads the city in sustained economic development to build wealth and enhance our quality of life by nurturing innovation and accelerating entrepreneurial organizations; connecting business, research, education, government and the community; developing and attracting world-class talent and skills; enhancing the quality of education in the region through innovative and collaborative programs; and marketing the region’s capabilities globally. With over 740 members including start-ups, SME’s, multinationals, research laboratories, academic institutions and government, OCRI promotes sustainable economic development to maintain our high quality of life. OCRI’s Life Sciences programs address the challenges that face innovative life sciences organizations by helping them advance life sciences and health care research to commercial development; by enabling strategic partnerships and knowledge transfer; and by accessing integrated global networks.
EASTERN LAKE ONTARIO REGIONAL INNOVATION NETWORK http://www.elorin.ca
ELORIN provides business assistance through training, peer-to-peer networks and connections with the right financial and informational resources to reduce business risk and help accelerate growth for new and growing enterprises in Eastern Ontario
The Innovation Cluster is a not-for-profit corporation with a mandate to facilitate an economic environment in which high paying jobs are created, wealth generated, and an increased quality of life established in the Greater Peterborough Area. The Innovation Cluster assists in advancing life sciences, environmental, DNA and other innovative research in the Peterborough, Ontario region to help promote and sustain a strong local knowledge-based economy.
RESEARCH INNOVATION COMMERCIALIZATION (RIC) CENTRE http://www.ric-centre.on.ca
RIC Centre helps new entrepreneurs and seasoned business people take the next great idea to market in the fields of aerospace, advanced manufacturing, life sciences and emerging technology sectors through defined strategic actions: proactively connect industry, academia and investment to gain meaningful results that support commercialization.
GHBN is focused on driving innovation, exploiting bioscience resources and strengths, and forging new partnerships that will create jobs and investment. Working within an urban population of more than 1 million, the network has been a main player in funding and piloting a medical-device clinical trials program in Hamilton, building an emerging bioproducts economic cluster in Niagara, and in creating a life sciences coalition in Ontario to support the vital biosciences industry. ACCELERATOR CENTRE, WATERLOO RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK
http://www.acceleratorcentre.com The centre is a co-op consisting of the Federal and Ontario governments, the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, the City of Waterloo and the University of Waterloo. It is the site of a community-based initiative to foster innovation in the region.
SOBIN’s mission is to strengthen the economy of Southwestern Ontario by cultivating new bioproducts, fostering energy conservation and expanding alternative energy sources. SOBIN envisions progressive companies leading the world in growing all facets of the bioproducts industry in Southwestern Ontario leading to a vibrant regional economy.
INNOVATION INITIATIVES ONTARIO NORTH http://www.iion.ca
The vision of IION is to firmly establish itself as the regional ‘go-to’ address for innovation and commercialization at the public-private sector interface, particularly but not entirely exclusively in the areas of Bioscience and Medicine as well as Bioproducts from renewable and sustainable sources.
YORKBIOTECH http://yorkbiotech.ca
YORKbiotech is a catalyst organization within Ontario’s Regional Innovation Network that harnesses the wealth of intellectual, technical and commercial resources in York Region to foster economic development in knowledge-based industries such as Advanced Health Technologies, Biotechnology, Clean-tech, ICT, Digital Media, Pharma Research and Advanced Manufacturing.
GUELPH FOOD TECHNOLOGY CENTRE http://www.gftc.ca
GFTC is a non-profit, non-subsidized food technology centre providing technical solutions, training, consulting and auditing services to the Canadian agri-food industry.
The Stiller Centre for Technology Commercialization, located in UWO’s Research Park, is designed for startup life sciences and technology-based companies. Tenants are offered a range of business network services which include market research, mentoring and operations analysis by BioMBA graduates. With partner organizations, innovation at the Centre is promoted within local, national and international communities, helping bring their innovation to the market place.
WINDSOR-ESSEX ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION http://www. choosewindsoressex.com
WEEDC seeks to maximize economic diversity, growth and prosperity in the WindsorEssex Region. It also works to connect the region’s industry centres in advanced manufacturing technologies, R&D and engineering, agri-business and food processing and education and tourism.
COMMUNITECH (WATERLOO REGION TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION) http://www.communitech.ca
Communitech is a industry-led organization driving the growth and success of Waterloo Region’s technology sector through leadership, connections and promotion, with over 550 network members, many of whom are big names in the global technology industry.
CENTRE FOR PROBE DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIALIZATION http://www.imagingprobes.ca
The CPDC is located in the McMaster Innovation Park and is the world’s first facility focusing on all areas related to the development of molecular imaging probes – chemical compounds that provide a non-invasive means to diagnose disease at its earliest stage. GOLDEN HORSESHOE VENTURE FORUM http://www.ghvf.org/home.htm
The GHVF is a volunteer-run, non-profit organization aimed at fostering the growth and success of entrepreneurial ventures by creating an environment for them to network with the financial, professional and technical communities.
The University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus offers one of Canada’s only Master of Biotechnology programs.
The Western Greater Toronto Area Convergence Centre provides resources about health and life sciences as well as biomedical and biotechnological information to the health community. This will encourage both the healthcare professionals, keen learners and everyone else to get involved into forming a healthy society and to further enhance human resource and community health environments.
NSERC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MOBILIZATION PROGRAM http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ professors-professeurs/ rpp-pp/ipM-Mpi_eng.asp
MITACS ACCELERATE http://www.mitacs.ca/index. php
A national internship program managed by MITACS which connects companies and other organizations with the vast research expertise in Canada’s universities from applied sciences, engineering, social sciences and business to arts, life sciences and much more. Run in partnership with a consortium of leading Canadian research organizations.
SAULT STE. MARIE INNOVATION CENTRE http://www.ssmic.com
Focused on business incubation, support services to assist small to medium enterprises and market development projects. NORTHERN ONTARIO ENTERPRISE GATEWAY http://www.noeg.ca
An organization in the North created to stimulate increased investment by Northern Ontario investors into Northern Ontario companies. This is accomplished by improving the flow of investment capital and management expertise into high-growth potential northern companies through the creation of angel investor groups.
An international consortium on anti-virals dedicated to the discovery and development of anti-viral therapies for neglected and emerging diseases, through the international collaboration of scientists, governments and industry.
NATURAL RESOURCES DNA PROFILING AND FORENSIC CENTRE http://web.nrdpfc.ca
The centre strives to compile genetic information on many species of plants and animals in the Canadian ecosystem.
LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE http://www.lhrionhealth.ca
Lawson is one of the largest hospital-based research institutes in Canada and is the research arm of the London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care.
Guelph Partnership for Innovation uses the combined power of business, research and the public sector to build technologybased business in Canada’s most dynamic ag-bio region with strength in biomaterials, bio-based energy, nutraceuticals, functional foods, cleantech and related bio-based technology. Using cutting-edge tools from biotechnology and information sciences, Guelph has a global reputation as an agbio powerhouse, developing and commercializing healthier foods and nutraceuticals to reduce health care costs, creating novel materials for the auto and other industries and capturing bio-based energy to reduce reliance on petroleum and shrink carbon footprints, and using engineered life forms to clean up air, soil and water.
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