Posts Tagged: youth and employment
Life Sciences Ontario’s statement on the 2015 Ontario Budget
TORONTO, ON (April 23, 2015) — Life Sciences Ontario (LSO) applauds the government's continued commitment to supporting life sciences through the Ontario Health Innovation Council and its accompanying $20 million innovation fund, programs to support job creation for Ontario’s highly educated young workforce and a new approach to providing the venture capital needed to support the commercialization of technologies and growth of companies in the life sciences sector.
Specifically, LSO notes the following commitments from the 2015 budget that will help drive ...
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Life Sciences Ontario publishes first substantial benchmarking data for sector’s performance
If you work in the life sciences in Ontario, your wages are approximately 26.5 per cent higher than those of the provincial average. On the other hand, if you're a recent science graduate, you're facing a challenging unemployment rate of 18.9 per cent.
These are only two of the data points described in the Life Sciences Ontario (LSO) Sector Report 2015, which is the first of its kind to provide well-defined data that clearly measure and report on the sector's benchmarking and ...
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UTEST program: Giving U of T students a new way to become their own bosses
"There is a path somewhere between extended study and becoming an office worker," wrote The Varsity's Angela Brock, in "Be Your Own Boss: Student entrepreneurs combine creativity and business to forge new career paths" (February 3, 2012). "As it turns out, there are plenty of opportunities for those looking to flex their entrepreneurial muscles without straying too far from the bosom of U of T."
Brock's article describes UTEST, the joint U of T-MaRS Innovation program that helps students, faculty and recent ...
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