Minister Announcement from TheInnovationCentre on Vimeo. The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), today announced a contribution of up to $4,999,575 for the Research Innovation Commercialization Centre that will provide graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) with the [...]
Government of Canada Invests in Jobs, Growth and Innovation in Southern Ontario
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PM, Finance and Industry to make innovation a top policy priority in 2012
February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In a recent Hill Times article on innovation and government policy, Andrew Maxwell, Chief Innovation Officer for the Canadian Innovation Centre was interviewed for his views on this subject. The article talks about the federal government’s efforts to stimulate innovation in Canada and the challenges of partisian politics on effectiveness of these efforts. Andrew credits Minister Goodyear for his focus on innovation [...]
The Entrepreneurial Effect Book and Award
January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
‘The Entrepreneurial Effect: Waterloo’ is a new book by James Bowen that contains a collection of articles and wisdom of over 30 people on how to launch a company in the Waterloo region. The Waterloo version of the book can be found here: http://www.entrepreneurialeffect.com/contact.htm The entrepreneurial effect is more than just a book. It is [...]
Roundtable on Effectiveness of Canadian Commercialization
December 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I had a chance to participate in a round table discussion organized by the Canadian Innovation Centre and the RIC Centre on the Effectiveness of Canadian Commercialization. In this discussion, Dr. Sorin Cohn, Chief Program Officer of i-Canada presented the preliminary results of the 2011 Commercialization study. This study uncovered a lot of interesting points [...]
Serial Entrepreneur, Marcel Lebrun to speak at CIX 2011
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By: Adam Vrankulj I recently read a book that takes place in the near future. It was about people who grew tired of the wasteful industrial cookie-cutter manufacturing we’re used to today, and the steps they took to re-define design and realize a modern sustainable living community of active innovators to breathe new life into [...]
Carry a Board of Directors in your Pocket!
November 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By: Shantanu Mittal A new book by James Bowen talks about the ‘Entrepreneurial Effect’ in the Waterloo region. ‘The Entrepreneurial Effect: Waterloo’ contains a collection of articles and wisdom of over 30 people on how to launch a company in the Waterloo region. Waterloo is Canada’s hotbed for innovation and the Canadian Innovation Centre is [...]
4th annual Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX)
November 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Join Canada’s innovation community at the 4th annual Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX)! Taking place Dec. 1, at MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, CIX gives you a front row seat to innovation. Use your exclusive Canadian Innovation Centre discount rate to attend CIX and connect with the leading Canadian and international investors, entrepreneurs and forward-thinking companies [...]
Search and you shall find [naught, you hope]
October 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Jacob Drory Reasons My previous posting (Sept. 9) elaborated on the novelty and unobviousness criteria of patentability, both assessed by the Patent Office in consideration of what has already been known in the field of the invention and in related fields—the “prior art”. Although technically an applicant is not required to conduct a prior [...]
Patent ability meets patentability – novelty and unobviousness
September 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By: Jacob Drory The statutory status of an invention and its utility, as discussed in my previous posting, are typically easy to ascertain. The applicability (inapplicability, one hopes) of patentability exclusions is also readily determined. What remains to be established is whether the invention is truly new and whether the inventive concept is likely to [...]
Network Building 101 – Attending a Networking Event Effectively
August 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By: Lucy Keating What makes a networking event effective? For most people and companies it is likely a combination of developing some useful contacts and gathering new or innovative ideas. To get the most out of any event you need to invest some time in planning. We usually look carefully at the presentations and workshops [...]
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