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Canadian flags flying high over the CNE midway. - Tanja Tiziana

Research and Innovation

Technology and a greener future
Technology and a greener future - Tanja Tiziana
The GTA is home to many of Ontario's world-leading researchers, entrepreneurs and innovation-based companies that are "inventing the future." These include companies that are finding new ways to treat disease or generate power in cleaner ways. Technology companies are developing ways for businesses to operate more efficiently and to communicate and share information better. With the Province of Ontario spending over $3 billion over eight years on their innovation agenda, growth in this broad industry is certain.

Research and Innovation Features

What's the Deal? Toronto companies are part of the group buying phenomenon

Group buying sites are popping up in Toronto faster than you can say "half-price sushi rolls." Here's how deal-hunting became a team sport. read on…

Overthrowing the performance review: Toronto's Rypple makes waves in the HR department

If Facebook can make you feel good about your relationships, why can't Rypple make you feel good about your workplace? This Toronto company is applying social media to the office.read on…

Hadi Mahabadi of Xerox Canada explains how skilled immigrants help push innovation

With researchers from 37 countries, the Xerox Research Centre of Canada's "diversity of thought" strategy, adopted in 2004, has resulted in a 17 per cent year-over-year increase in the number of its patent ideas.read on…

"No ma, this game is helping me learn" - Toronto's serious gaming companies have kids thinking

Imagine Guitar Hero for your brain: Toronto companies Wero Creative and Spongelab Interactive are creating computer games that are both fun and get kids learning too.read on…

Toronto's Artez Interactive brings Web 2.0 to fundraisers around the world

Artez Interactive is the behind-the-scenes company that helps fundraising campaigns take part in the social media revolution.read on…

Charitable giving just got innovative and healthy with FundTunes

Forget about selling candy bars and bake-sales -- new company FundTunes was co-founded by Toronto entrepreneur Eduardo Alvarez, a Queen Street entrepreneur and gym-owner, who wanted a more healthy way to raise quick cash for charities.read on…

Watching the signs of the times has led Markham's Cognovision to do a global business

In a time of shrinking ad sales, Markham-based Cognovision has developed an innovative way to count how many people are looking at digital ads in public spaces, all while maintaining privacy.read on…

Net Change Week: Toronto's social innovators are making Don Tapscott's predictions come true

It's Net Change Week at MaRS and tech-biz thinker Don Tapscott is asking us to rethink how, well, just about everything operates. It's a new way of doing things, and Toronto's social innovators like Michelle Hamilton-Page at Toronto Public Health are helping lead the way.read on…

Q&A with TABIA's John Kiru on Toronto's Best Export: the BIA

Toronto's Bloor West Village Business Improvement Area recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. A world's first in 1970, BIAs have since spread across the city, country and around the world. The Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas' John Kiru explains how the idea started and spread.read on…

Got 3D? Toronto's Head Gear Animation is leading the film industry in new directions

Head Gear Animation are known for their ground-breaking work that mix up a variety of different animation techniques. Their latest venture is the first 3D commercial in Canada and its production required pioneering a new stereoscopic technique. read on…
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