How to build an innovation economy

There are lots of ways to tell the world about scientific discoveries. The Ontario Innovation Trust has done it with a beautiful legacy report: Using our Heads: Building Ontario’s economy through research showcases some of the best recent research and discoveries that have happened right here in Ontario.

Not only does the book include feature articles about leading Ontario scientists and Q and A’s with some of this province’s most innovative leaders—it’s also spectacularly illustrated by 23 talented artists, painters and graphic designers and (perhaps best of all) it can be yours for the low, low price of zero dollars.

The OIT was created in 1999 to enhance the infrastructure needed for scientific research and technology development in Ontario. Over the past 10 years, the OIT, the Canada Foundation for Innovation and industry and institutional partners have invested over $2.1 billion in 1,250 projects at universities, labs and research institutions across the province. Using our Heads reports on this investment with 111 pages of words and pictures about the top-ranking scientific research to come out of the OIT.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a book about innovative research in Ontario without at least one mention of MaRS—in fact, there’s more than one.  Order your copy of Using out Heads at www.usingourheads.ca to read about:

• Dr. Aled Edwards: speaker at the MaRS Future of Medicine Conference 2009 and Chief Executive of the Structural Genomics Consortium
• Dr. John Evans: MaRS Founder, former President of the University of Toronto and founding dean of McMaster University Medical School
• Dr. Aaron Fenster: speaker at the MaRS Future of Medicine Conference 2009 and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering
• Gordon Nixon: Chair of MaRS’ board of directors and President and CEO of RBC
• Ontario Institute for Cancer Research: MaRS tenant
• Conclusion by Dr. Calvin Stiller: MaRS board member, Chair of the OIT and Chair of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
• And more…

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