Susanne Staer

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Shotlst CEO featured in Globe article on future of tech in education

Shotlst LogoMatt Ratto, assistant professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information and co-inventor and CEO of Shotlst, a UTEST company, was featured in the Globe and Mail on October 22 in an article by Nick Rockel on how emerging technology will change the education experience.

Here’s an excerpt:

Asked what the technological tools in university classrooms will look and feel like by 2020, Matt Ratto admits he’s no futurist. But the assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information is helping shape the future – by changing students’ relationship with technology.

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Baxter and MaRS Innovation Form Strategic Partnership

Partnership to invest up to $1M in promising Canadian healthcare discoveries

Baxter Corporate Headquarters in Mississauga, ON
Baxter Corporate Headquarters in Mississauga, ON

TORONTO, Ontario, October 4, 2012—Baxter International Inc. and MaRS Innovation, a Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research, have entered into a strategic partnership to commercialize early-stage technologies that present innovative methods in therapeutics and drug discovery technologies.

Information about Baxter and MaRS Innovation’s partnership is also available in French.

The partnership’s shared vision for delivering novel, transformative therapeutic technologies will benefit Canadians and others around the world. Baxter and MaRS Innovation will identify investment opportunities emerging from well-validated scientific research discoveries within MaRS Innovation’s 16 member institutions, including the University of Toronto and its nine affiliated teaching hospitals.

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Baxter et MaRS Innovation forment un partenariat stratégique

Un partenariat visant à investir jusqu’à 1 M$ dans les découvertes canadiennes prometteuses en matière de soins de santé

Baxter Corporate Headquarters in Mississauga, ON
Baxter Corporate Headquarters in Mississauga, ON

TORONTO (Ontario), le 4 octobre 2012 – Baxter International Inc. et MaRS Innovation, un centre d’excellence en commercialisation et en recherche, ont établi un partenariat stratégique afin de commercialiser des technologies en phase de développement qui constituent des méthodes novatrices sur le plan des technologies thérapeutiques et de découverte de médicaments.

Information about MaRS Innovation and Baxter’s partnership is also available in English.

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ClevrU partners with Schulich School of Business professors to target online education market

MaRS Innovation and York University’s commercialization office support new partnership

Students in China interact with the ClevrU platform
Students in China interact with the ClevrU platform. Photo courtesy of ClevrU Inc.

In the age of ITunes, videotaping lectures or converting existing textbooks into e-books won’t make you the market leader in online education.

Thanks to a new partnership between ClevrU, and NewMindsets Inc., facilitated by MaRS Innovation and York University’s commercialization office, Canadian technology and content promises to establish the second-generation online learning standard for millions of students worldwide.

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U of T, MaRS Innovation Collaborate to Launch Incubator for Student Software Companies

Hadi Aladdin (left) and Marwan Aladdin, U of T graduates and the founders of CoursePeer.
Hadi Aladdin (left) and Marwan Aladdin, U of T graduates and the founders of CoursePeer, one of six UTEST companies.

TORONTO, ON – A new program that provides nascent software companies with start-up funds, work space, mentoring and business strategy support, was launched today by the University of Toronto and commercialization partner MaRS Innovation, with support from the MaRS Discovery District.

TechVibes has a profile page for UTEST and covered CoursePeer as part of their students start-ups series.

The new program, called University of Toronto Early Stage Technology (UTEST), is part of a growing ecosystem of incubators and commercialization support services at U of T, including the newly-launched Banting and Best Institute. UTEST is unique among campus incubators in that its companies receive start-up funds—$30,000 each in this inaugural year—and because it accepts companies in the very earliest stages of idea generation, before they’re ready for traditional incubators.

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Business Without Borders highlights ScarX Therapeutics’ Chinese co-development partnership

ScarX logoScarX Therapeutics, a spin-off company created by MaRS Innovation and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), was profiled by Business Without Borders on September 25, 2012.

Sean Fine‘s article examines the strategic funding partnership MI pursued with NovoTek Therapeutics Inc. (NovoTek) in China to develop the anti-scarring cream, which was discovered by researchers at SickKids.

A multibillion-dollar market may await ScarX, a Toronto biomedical start-up, but first it had to figure out how to finance the development of its unique cream that reduces scarring after surgery.

Its answer to the shortage of Canadian venture capital in life sciences turned out to be a partnership with a drug company in China.

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VP Joel Liederman’s Financial Post article on mitigating innovation risk

Joel Liederman, vice-president (physical sciences)
Joel Liederman, MI’s vice-president of business development and physical sciences

MaRS Innovation’s Vice-President of Business Development and Physical Sciences Joel Liederman, has published an article in the Financial Post about strategies to mitigate risk within the innovation space.

The article, titled “Innovation Success Means Mitigating Risk,” is featured in the newspaper’s Productive Conversations section.

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CML HealthCare Inc. and MaRS Innovation Enter into Strategic Partnership

CML Healthcare logoMISSISSAUGA, Ontario, September 18, 2012 – CML HealthCare Inc. (TSX: CLC) (the “Company” or “CML”) and MaRS Innovation (MI), a Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research, have entered into a strategic partnership to commercialize early-stage technologies that present innovative methods in medical diagnostics.

This story was covered in the Globe and Mail, Canadian Business, 680 News, Reuters, Sympatico.ca, the Huffington Post Canada, Technology Trasnfer Tactics, and the Winnipeg Free Press, among others. It was  distributed via Yahoo! Finance, Healthcare Global.com, marketwire and Digital Journal.

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