Ottawa start-up, 360pi, has developed a cloud-based platform that delivers an unprecedented level of price transparency to retailers. Using proprietary web-crawling technology, their platform delivers continuous reporting on millions of product price points allowing retailers to gain a competitive advantage.

Advanced capabilities and proximity to Ontario’s automotive sector attracted global science and technology company 3M to collaborate with OCE and the University of Waterloo and McMaster University in developing new product applications for their films and adhesives. These new applications could potentially transform automotive manufacturing.

Over ten years ago, York University graduate, Steve McArdle, had a vision to combine remote sensing technology with mapping applications to create visual solutions for communicating location-based information.

University of Guelph’s AEM Healthy Foods in collaboration with Jersey Ontario and the Dairy Farmers of Ontario has developed a low-sodium, low-sugar chocolate milk product as part of University of Guelph’s Interdisciplinary Product Development class.

The Aeryon Scout is a hovering, unmanned flying vehicle that records digital images and video for a range of security and surveillance applications.

AMD, a global semiconductor design innovator with sales of US$6.5 billion in 2010, developed a new-generation Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), based on its “Fusion” architecture.

Athena D’Amato is an entrepreneur at heart. While a Master's of Business Entrepreneurship and Technology student at the University of Waterloo, D’Amato was supported through OCE’s Talent Entrepreneurship Development program.

In 2006, OCE was tasked by the Ministry of Energy to co-ordinate and manage a $4 milllion bio-energy research program (ABRC) associated with Ontario Power Generation’s Atikokan Generating Station in northwestern Ontario.

The need behind Benbria’s intelligent next-generation notification technology is straightforward to describe but complex to achieve: reliably notify large, dispersed groups in multiple locations with targeted messages, across a variety of communications channels.

Track level transit workers may soon benefit from improved job safety through research by Bombardier Transportation and the McMaster RFID (radio frequency identification) Applications Lab.

Carbon Control Systems (CCS) has developed a patented biochemical monitoring system that enables biogas plant operators to understand the health of their system in real time, even remotely.

Founded by Carlos de Oliveira, Cast ConnneX has developed standardized connectors that enable low- and medium-rise steel structures to better withstand earthquakes – potentially saving millions of dollars and, more importantly, lives.

Toronto start-up CellAegis Devices has developed a device that activates the body’s self-defence mechanisms to protect heart muscles in case of a heart attack, reducing damage to organs by up to 50 per cent.

Toronto-based Certo Labs has developed a device that could revolutionize the time and money spent by the pharmaceutical, environmental and food industries on extracting samples from drugs, foods and contaminated soils for analysis.

Chide.it develops software to aid organizations in gathering feedback from constituents and in analyzing that data in order to help them make business-critical decisions.

Clearpath Robotics specializes in the design and manufacture of unmanned vehicle solutions for academic, industrial, and military R&D applications.

When X-rays and ultrasound examinations were digitized it ended the practice of reviewing images on a simple light box. Medical images are now stored, managed and viewed on a picture archiving and communication system (PACS).

ClimateCHECK is a leading environmental services and solutions provider that encompasses greenhouse gas management and ecosystem services. It has its headquarters in Ottawa and offices across North America, plus a global network of partners.

To learn how new ideas transition from the lab to the marketplace, consider professor James Elder at York University – who specializes in how people see things – and whose work has resulted in multiple new companies and commercial products.

Ottawa-based EION Inc. has made a significant global impact on making rural communities digital by providing voice, video and data communication to emerging markets. To date, it has deployed more than 25,000 broadband wireless links in Africa, India, Latin America, the Middle East and North America.

Ottawa’s Elevator Cab Renovations (ECR), in conjunction with Algonquin College and the University of Waterloo, designed and built a Steiner Tunnel, a unique apparatus that allows ECR to inexpensively test new, more lightweight materials that make elevator interiors safer and more energy efficient.

Energent is a real-time energy informatics company in Waterloo that has developed a technology that predicts and manages a user’s energy consumption.

Every year in the U.S. alone, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and HPV cause infertility in 50,000 women and 13,000 cases of cervical cancer. Almost all these cases are preventable with regular screenings, but issues such as lack of access, time constraints, embarrassment and pain prevent many women from taking care of themselves.

Ottawa-based GaN Systems makes power conversion semiconductors from gallium nitride (GaN), generating unprecedented efficiencies over silicon, minimizing energy loss to one per cent.

Ottawa start-up, Giatec Scientific Inc. has developed a breakthrough hand-held device that detects areas of potential deterioration in concrete structures before it happens. The device provides an unprecedented level of accuracy, dramatically reducing maintenance costs and improving safety.

Toronto-based Gridcentric has developed Virtual Memory Streaming (VMS) software that improves the flexibility, speed and efficiency of cloud virtual infrastructures. It allows clouds to use fewer hardware resources, like servers and storage, and deliver operational cost savings by growing and shrinking in tight concert with demand.

If you’re like 80 per cent of internet users, when you review search engine results you rarely look beyond the top page of listings. For marketers trying to drive the business to their companies’ sites, it’s therefore essential to appear right at the top of those listings.

Timber has been harvested in Ontario’s Haliburton region since the mid-1800s, but only under the management of Peter Schleifenbaum, president of Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve, has a thriving wood-products business co-existed with a sustainable forest ecosystem.

Ottawa start-up, HousAll Systems Corporation, specializes in inexpensive, environmentally and socially responsible temporary structures for commercial, residential, military and emergency applications.

Houssein Ayach earned a Master's in Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Ottawa, with a specialization in image processing. That made him a perfect fit for a First Job internship with Visual Cortek, an OCE and University of Ottawa spin-off that develops intelligent video surveillance and security systems.