Attention entrepreneurs: TiEQuest 2010 now accepting applications

Posted by Vanessa @ MaRS, January 27th, 2010

TiEQuest 2009 winner and MaRS client Aeryon Labs.

TiE Toronto is on a quest for great business ideas—and it’s got over $150,000 to award to the entrepreneurs who have those ideas.

TiEQuest 2010, TiE Toronto’s annual business venture competition, is now open and accepting applications.



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Topping the Canadian Innovation list

Posted by Vanessa @ MaRS, November 15th, 2009

Looking for an innovative Canadian company? Look no further — nine of the 20 finalists that will compete for the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) 2009 Award for Canadian Innovation Leader are clients of MaRS and our partner organizations Communitech and the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI).



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Cultivating the collaborative city

Posted by Linda @ MaRS, November 4th, 2009

Creative Places + Spaces

Creative Places + Spaces

Building on a legacy is never easy. Building on the legacy of legendary urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs is particularly daunting.

When the Creative Places + Spaces conferences debuted in October 2003, Jane Jacobs, Richard Florida and 50 other speakers led a captivated delegation from across Canada, the U.S. and U.K. in an exchange about the growing importance of creativity to cities and the new economy. It was a watershed event in the advancement of the creative cities movement in Canada, which expanded in 2005 with the second offering in the conference series.

The dialogue continued in Toronto last week at Creative Places + Spaces 2009 with study tours, dynamic keynotes, provocative panels, video spotlights and breakout sessions for a national and international audience gathered over two days at the Carlu and MaRS.



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