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Nashville Business Journal writes on what its city can learn from Toronto innovation expert, Ilse Treurnicht. Treurnicht, CEO of Toronto's MaRS Discovery District, recently spoke to a delegation of Nashvillians on strategies for attracting the right kind of people, investments, and small businesses to foster an innovative urban economy.
"The product on one hand doesn't match the demand on the other side," Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of Toronto's MaRS Discovery District, told a crowd of dozens of Nashvillians Thursday."
"Her organization exists to address that problem. It's no small effort � the massive complex is a key part of the city that encourages academic research, prepares ideas for commercialization and connects investors with products."
"The group that heard Treurnicht talk is traveling around Toronto to learn about a range of economic, political and social issues, as part of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce's Music City Leadership Study Mission."
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