The initial focus of the Centre will be on commercializing new technology discoveries related to the environment, natural resources and energy; health and related life sciences; and digital media.
Investment
Accelerator Fund
Providing eligible technology-based
start-ups with up to $500K in seed investment. More...
Mind to Market Award 2008
The Mind to Market Award honours the best OCE-supported, commercially successful, collaboration between Ontario’s most innovative research and industry partners. This year's award, presented at the Discovery 2008 conference, went to RapidMind Inc. and University of Waterloo.
Developed from an astounding idea pioneered at the University of Waterloo, RapidMind is now able to push computer-processing power to achieve unparalleled levels of speed and performance. The RapidMind software platform enables other developers to harness the full untapped multi-core parallel processing power of the world’s multi-core computers. The result - a computer that operates as much as 140 times faster, with enormous potential for areas such as medical imaging, database transactions and image and video manipulation.
Their success has been documented in a video that outlines their collaboration and OCE's involvement. If the video does not play within this page, you can view it through
your Windows
Media Player by clicking
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2006
2007 Annual Report
Over the past year, OCE has been at the forefront
of Ontario's increasing focus on innovation. With
the significant challenges faced by many of
Ontario's key industry sectors from global
competition and a growing awareness that
environmental issues will force us to change
how we do things, it is generally recognized that
innovation holds the key to maintaining our economy
and ultimately our standard of living.
Mind
To Market Breakfast Series. This
series provides an early taste of the future and a glimpse of where "Next"
is happening. Explore new podcasts of past sessions.
Mind
To Market Award 2007 OCE presented the Award to two outstanding collaborations: BTI Photonics Systems ans Queens University ana SRI Petro Chemical Inc. and University of Guelph.
Mind
To Market Award 2008 Presented at Discovery08. This year recipient of The OCE Mind To Market Award is RapidMind Inc. and University of Waterloo.
