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Ontario has announced new investments in eight promising high-tech companies. The funding comes from the $29-million Investment Accelerator Fund, which helps eligible start-up companies develop their technology and gain entrepreneurial expertise to bring their product or service to market.
Graduates' fresh ideas, enthusiasm can help develop new products
Small and medium-sized businesses facing limited budgets and resources for research and development can leverage the expertise at universities and colleges along with some funding to help stay ahead of competitors.
Toronto-based GreenCore Composites, a supplier of natural fibre composite materials, has announced that it has completed a successful financing round, securing $850,000 in private equity.
Tough economic times call for innovation and creativity. That's why a recession might be the perfect time to think about starting your own business, say some of the country's business leaders.
New federal dollars are expected to make a successful Ontario program even more successful. The new Centre for the Commercialization of Research was announced earlier today at IBM's Kanata offices on Palladium Drive.
Negotiating the chasm between a great idea and actually bringing it to market is not just crucial for Ottawa's R&D efforts, but for Canada's future as well.
An Ontario agency has given two inventors $100,000 each to help bring their projects to market.
Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) said Monday that Ameer Taha, co-founder of Certo Labs Inc., and Smart Rotor Systems founder Kostyantyn Khomutov were co-winners of a fellowship for technological entrepreneurship.
Applied research may not be the sexiest subject, but Canadian colleges conducting vital hands-on work for business and communities alike are pressing all the right innovation buttons.
A new solar-cell system could one day make power from the sun as cheap as electricity from fossil fuels
The Ontario Centres of Excellence is determined to get people talking Bio-Economy opportunities as a sustainable pattern of economic activity for the Northwest
Researchers studying the use of engineering technology to improve the health and well being of Canadians.
Cleanfield Energy Corp ("Cleanfield") a subsidiary of Cleanfield Alternative Energy Inc. (TSX VENTURE:AIR) announced today the appointment of Stephen Kooiman as its Wind Energy Specialist.
Speaking Notes for Jayson Myers
President Canadian Manufacturers & Expoters
High school students, participated in the opening session of a new Ottawa high school technology program, a pilot project between OCRI (the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation), the Ontario Centres of Excellence and IBM
Article Showcasing The invention of Certo Lab one of our 2008 Martin Walmsley Fellowship winners
Until recently, entrepreneurs who dreamed of successfully funding, developing and commercializing an innovation had few options than to jump into the sink-or-swim school of hard knocks.
Device has the potential to save lives and avoid potential overcrowding in hospital rooms.
July/August, 2008, Green Business Magazine - Clean Tech in China
China will drive the
development and adoption of
clean technologies because it
has to - to maintain its growth.
Will Canada be a player, or
watch from the sidelines
July 21, 2008, Windsor Star - Auto talk
The "greenest" cars on the market don't just burn less fuel, they also produce less pollution and emit fewer greenhouse gases.
McMaster University has recently been granted $4.1M for a Special Project in Photovoltaics by the Ontario Centres of Excellece (OCE) - Centre for Energy.
NCY Seed is an interesting fund focused on seed-stage technology companies in NYC. It sounds familiar to the IAF program by the Ontario Centres of Excellence.
Canadian energy companies are taking a serious look at the skies and seeing a golden opportunity in the sun's rays
Fortunately, failure can be a life-changing source, which would explain why last week's Discovery 08 conference, hosted by the Ontario Centres of Excellence, included a lively session titled, "Failures on the Road to Success."
RapidMind, makers of the RapidMind Multicore Development Platform was honoured with the 2008 Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) 'Mind to Market Award' which celebrates the best OCE supported, commercially successful collaboration between Ontario's most innovative research and industry partners.
Cleanfield Alternative Energy Inc. subsidiary, Cleanfield Energy Corp., was chosen as a finalist for the Ontario Centres of Excellence Mind to Market Award.
Connie Fraser has the pulse of the county's manufacturers. If her roles as plant manager of Sanoh Canada and president of Dufferin County Manufacturers Association (DCMA)didn't give her enough insight, a survey conducted by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce - with local assistance from the Greater Dufferin Area Chamber of Commerce - has fleshed out the picture.
From fuel cells and computer-guided surgical tools to a new centre for nurturing innovation, Kingston's broad research base will be showcased in Toronto later this month.
OCE announces the appointment of Charles Plant and Bryan Kanarens, as Managing Directors respectively for the Business Mentorship and Entrepreneurship Program and the Investment Accelerator Fund.
National outreach program helps elementary and high school students understand the importance of science.
Within the past 15 years, along with cutting funds and reducing taxes, Ontario's provincial government has encouraged private-public partnerships (P3s)as a core business strategy for economic growth.
In less than a year, the Accelerator Centre at the Waterloo Research and Technology Park has laid the groundwork for some of Canada's high-tech stars of the future.
Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), International Science and Technology Partnerships Canada (ISTPCanada) and The Canada-Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation (CIIRDF) have formed a strategic partnership to grow international research and commercialization programs in Ontario and across Canada.
Greediness is not usually an admirable trait, but early-stage companies need to explore every financing option and get their hands on funds from as many sources as possible. "Take more than you think you need," says Glenor Pitters, who has become a finance-raising guru after co-founding DMTI Spatial Inc., a mapping technology company based in Markham, Ont., in the mid-1990s. "Different sources will bring different values."
McMaster University professor Ray LaPierre holds up a thin wafer of silicon with a smooth, jet-black surface that, at first glance, looks like a typical solar cell.
Microscopic slivers, a thousand times thinner than a human hair, are excellent at trapping light, scientists discover.
Through support from the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), McMaster researchers are at the cutting edge of innovation in solar energy technologies.
The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Inc. recently announced an investment of $28 million into research and development for groundbreaking clean energy technologies. The money ($13 million from OCE and $15 million from its industry partners) will be invested in six projects that aim to create cleaner, more efficient ways for Ontario residents to generate, consume, and manage energy.
If you are looking for sources of the next big bang concept, it's a real possibility it might come through the assiduous and continuing efforts of the Ontario
Centres of Excellence (OCE) Inc. This could happen because of OCE's close-knit rapport between academia and industry.
Your company has an idea to commercialize a leading-edge discovery. But if you're a new business, or a growing company, or just don't have the resources to do the research and development (R&D), how can you accelerate the commercialization of that innovation? The answer may be The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE).
A group of students at Glebe Collegiate Institute will be working feverishly through the weekend to complete construction of a robot destined for an international competition.
The 11 new Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) focus on priority areas in research and commercialization and are a key element of Canada's Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy.
Research Collaboration between Catalonia and Ontario in the area of Photonics - the science and technology of light...
The Honourable Monte Solberg, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, today announce appointments to the National Council of Welfare.
Environmental biology Prof. Mike Dixon will be talking about the "Martian Garden", the prototype he and other Guelph researchers developed of special environment-controlled growth chambers that will one day allow people to grow vegetables on Mars.
Randall North is Executive in Residence at PARTEQ and Business Development Manager for the Ontario Centres of Excellence.
Southwestern Ontario took a great stride forward in strengthening its technology sector with the creation of five new start-up companies, thanks to funding from the Ontario Centres of Excellece.
The Department of Engineering Physics at McMaster University, Cleanfield Energy and the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) have formed a partnership to pursue the commercialization of nanowire technology in the production of solar cells.
Cleanfield Alternative Energy Inc. is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cleanfield Energy Corp, has developed a strategic partnership with McMaster University's Department of Engineering Physics by way of a research collaboration agreement between Cleanfied, McMaster and the Ontario Centres of Excellence.
A U.S. university is going to begin clinical trials of a device invented by McMaster University students that shows users how to correctly perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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Tosh Tipler of Waterloo and Yang Wang of Kitchener, students in postgraduate programs at Conestoga College, earned second-place standing recently at a competition presented by Agfa HealthCare. The contest was open to health informatics students of Conestoga and the University of Waterloo, and attracted 30 student teams.
Toronto-based REGEN Energy has been selected as a 2008 - 2009 Cleantech winner in Canada's annual Top 10 Competition. With support from the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), REGEN developed an innovative technology that provides immediate savings of up to 30 per cent on monthly peak energy demands, resulting in huge savings for potentially thousands of industrial factories and commercial facilities across Ontario
Biogas startup goes for the green; Toronto-based company weighs risks,
returns and loss of control...and gambles on $350-million in private
equity backing to build ambitious series of environmentally friendly
power generators in North America
Spongelab Interactive Inc, an Ontario-based educational gaming company, was awarded first prize in the Interactive Media category from the Science and National Science Foundation’s Visualization Challenge 2008. This award is published in the September 26, 2008 issue of the journal Science (Science: Vol. 321. no. 5897, p. 1767) and featured on the National Science Foundation’s website.
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