Innovation Lunch Series: Social Innovation with Kanika Gupta
Social innovation is about taking your great ideas and making a true social change in your neighbourhood or around the world. Join Kanika Gupta, Founder and Chief Catalyst of social enterprise...
View ArticleDefensive Patent License: Is it the Answer for Innovators?
By: Shanza Anwaar For an inventor or technical innovator, more sleepless nights are spent over how to protect what could be your very own goldmine than any other issue. According to Politico, tech...
View ArticleDEM Society presents the Young Entrepreneurs’ Challenge 2013
Are you interested in Marketing, Business Strategy, Media, Design or Development? Do you have an innovative startup business idea? There’s an opportunity for everyone at the Young Entrepreneurs’...
View ArticleSocial Innovation Trends For 2013
By: Shanza Anwaar Are you an entrepreneur looking for a challenge? Do you want to make a real difference in your community? Social innovation allows entrepreneurs to take advantage of new opportunities...
View ArticleSocial Media and The Digitization of Manufacturing
By: Shanza Anwaar Is your business prepared for the third industrial revolution? Can you keep up with the changing landscape of manufacturing? The digitization of manufacturing is in the throes of...
View ArticleBusiness Innovation Summit 2013: Innovation for the Corporation
February 19 & 20 – Fairmont Royal York, Toronto The Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for Business Innovation is hosting the Business Innovation Summit, a major two–day event that focuses on how...
View ArticleKPMG Enterprise: Giving Back To Entrepreneurs
By: Mariya Shynlova If you are an entrepreneur, you will attest to the difficulty of knowing whom to reach out to for trusted, reliable advice to take your idea to market. With directories and...
View ArticlePromoting Innovation Through Design Thinking
By: Shanza Anwaar In a world with an unprecedented amount of global connectivity and accessibility to new tools, it is shocking to learn that since 1990, creativity scores among children have...
View ArticleSmart Recruitment: Training And Building Your Future Workforce
By: Shanza Anwaar From startups to multinational corporations, the core of success hinges on building a team with the right people for a growing business. As startup entrepreneurs soon learn, it’s...
View ArticleSupporting the Female Entrepreneur Through Active Participation
By: Leah Jones “If women do not participate fully in entrepreneurial activities, we lose half the potential of our society” – Roseann O’Reilly Runte (President & Vice-Chancellor, Carleton...
View ArticleGROW2013 “Rethinking Business: Staying relevant in a new era”
EVENT: GROW2013 DATE: August 14-16, 2013 VENUE: Vancouver Convention Center ADDRESS: 1055 Canada Place, 3rd Floor, Vancouver, BC, V6C 0C3 REGISTRATION: http://growconf.eventbrite.com/ The 4th...
View ArticleSustainability Applied 2013
EVENT: Sustainability Applied 2013 DATE: October 1-2, 2013 VENUE: Mississauga Convention Centre ADDRESS: 75 Derry Rd W, Mississauga, ON L5W 1G3 REGISTRATION:...
View ArticleBuilding Skills to Encourage Youth Entrepreneurship
By: Leah Jones Did you know that 71% of business owners will retire by 2020? With this impending decline, it is important to develop and support Canada’s young entrepreneurs to propagate innovation....
View ArticleNew report shows more Canadian businesses are meeting their goals through...
On February 19th, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) released a three year progress report on its Strategy for Partnerships and Innovation. The Strategy...
View ArticleEdInnovation 2013
EVENT: EdInnovation 2013 DATE: May 1-3, 2013 VENUE: Radisson Hotel Calgary Airport ADDRESS: 2120 16 Ave NE, Calgary, AB T2E 1L4 REGISTRATION: http://edinnovation.eventbrite.ca/# Welcome to...
View ArticleINTERNSHIPS – Leverage Your Start-up Budget to Access Talent and Expertise
By: Shanza Anwaar For startups, resources are limited and margins of error are very low. The initial stages pose a challenge for entrepreneurs as they have to manage and leverage resources creatively...
View ArticleTEDxMississauga – Calling the inspired and enthusiastic to the stage
Innovators have a unique passion, something extra that brings them from the realm of partial thoughts to the world of ingenious innovation and successful execution. This factor changes them from the...
View Article4 Lessons Learned From Failed Tech Startups
By: Leah Jones The highly competitive and fast-paced technology industry is known for the typically short lifespan of its startups; some claim the majority of startups will not make it through the...
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