Tag: canada
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A strategy that will make Canadian innovation flourish
Wal van Lierop is President and CEO at Chrysalix Venture Capital. Despite a decade of policies meant to foster entrepreneurship, Canada’s technology industry remains frail. The Conference Board gives Canada a “D” on innovation, ranking us 13th among 16 peer countries. They are surpassing Canada in income per capita, productivity and quality of social programs. Canada is…
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Startup Canada Innovation Forum 18 may
Are you one of Canada’s top industry executives? Register to attend the Startup Canada Innovation Forum in Toronto on May 18, and build the future of Canada’s small business economy. This exclusive event brings together, celebrates and creates a platform for influential executives, high-growth entrepreneurs and government decision makers to share and spread ideas on the role of industry in building…
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Canadian Innovation: How to get back in the game
Lakshmi Raj had almost everything she needed to grow her company. She had the idea (a cloud-based time-tracking software for businesses), the money ($22 million raised since launching in 1995), and the tech talent (155 software engineers). But she was missing one very important component: a robust marketing team. Raj’s company, Replicon, is based in…
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BDC launches new program to help Canada move the needle on innovation
TORONTO , April 11, 2017 /CNW Telbec/ – The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) will launch a new Corporate Innovation and Venturing Program at the Canadian Corporate Innovation Summit held in Toronto , April 11-13 . Canada’s first ever Corporate Innovation Summit will connect global business leaders, international and Canadian executives, investors and government…
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Empty talk is killing on innovation is killing Canada’s economic prosperity
Jim Balsillie is former co-CEO of BlackBerry and co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. If overuse of the word “innovation” was our only problem, Canadians would not have much to fear. What we should fear is a stubborn reliance on 19th- and 20th-century policy strategies that have nothing to do with how wealth…
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Canada will launch a competition to invest $ 800 million in innovation projects
Justin Trudeau Canada’s federal budget will launch a competition to pick about a half dozen research clusters that will receive hundreds of millions in government funding, people familiar with the plans say. Innovation and skills training will be a key theme of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s second budget, due for release March 22 in…
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Innovation is thriving in British Columbia / Canada
Minister Bains concludes successful three-day tour of B.C., announces funding for local innovative businesses VANCOUVER, March 15, 2017 /CNW/ – Innovation is thriving across Canada, from developing clean energy technologies for creating alternative sources of fuel, to enhancing pharmaceutical discovery processes for combatting major diseases, to modernizing communications systems that will increase public transit safety.…
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City of Toronto launching Civic Innovation Office to procure tech solutions for city problems
The City of Toronto has announced the creation of a Civic Innovation Office, which will work with City divisions and agencies to identify major challenges that can be solved through innovative partnerships with external teams. External teams will work through 16-week stints to create solutions to challenges faced by Toronto residents, which can be procured…
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Innovation in Canada
More particle than wave A geeky prime minister wants to make the country more inventive ASKED by a journalist in April about Canada’s role in fighting Islamic State, Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, came back with a pithy lecture on quantum computing. “The uncertainty around quantum states,” he explained, lets quantum computers encode much more…
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The most innovative countries in the world in one map
HowMuch.NetThe U.S. is by far the most innovative country in the world. It may not be the most prosperous nor the smartest country on earth, but the U.S. leaves the rest of world in the dust in one important area—innovation. The map of the most innovative countries—as measured by the number of patents filed between 1977 to 2015—shows that when…
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