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Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.

Today’s Top Pick – “Winning the arms race over your cyber secret“. Find out more under Science and Innovation.

Ron Close, MaRS EIR

In the May 27th FP Executive Podcast, MaRS Entrepreneur-in-Residence Ron Close (also an Executive Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario) talks about his entrepreneurial journey and his work at MaRS helping entrepreneurs build their businesses.

Time for creative thinking

Favours from people are perfectly fine, especially when you’re changing the world.

After the excitement of the operating theater, the thrill of learning new science, and the novelty of writing patents – and of course, talking about all of the above – I am coming to appreciate the ability to execute. This is generally the job of the “businessperson”, which is one I, as a businessperson, had started overlooking. That has come to an end. The ability to determine the right questions, ask the right people, find the best answers and make decisions is critical to moving an idea forward.

For those of you who have not read this blog series before,  I’m a Fellow at Stanford’s Biodesign program, where we spend a year between the school of engineering and the school of medicine solving medical problems with devices. We’re designing devices for unmet clinical needs. The “we” is a team that began as four and has now become two pairs of two. The needs range from heart failure to incontinence. The gospel of the program is that innovation is a process. The tales I tell are my insights for the month.

For those of you who have read this blog before and expect it to be monthly: so did I! The one thing I will say about the time missed is that with funding declined, the government will become increasingly important as will large corporate partnerships or acquisitions. Ok, shall we begin?

Five Ontario-based companies have made the list of the “Ten Canadian Healthcare Solutions to Watch.” The list, compiled by IDC, a major market research firm, consists of 10 small privately held Canadian health care companies that have the potential to make an impact on the information and communications technology (ICT) solutions market.

Three companies are based in the Toronto area and are MaRS clients. Meet the innovators:

WhiteHouse.gov changes everything

Information from the U.S. White House has never reached as many people and with as much velocity as today. How are they doing it and what does it mean for today’s businesses?