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BlogTO features AdrenalEase Posture Performance Shirt
While Christmas may be over and all the presents stowed away, we like to highlight when companies are featured around the internet. Before the holidays BlogTO included the Posture Performance Shirt...
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Impact Centre staff begin testing solar lamp in Philippines
In celebration of the International Year of Light (IYL), the Impact Centre set out to light up the world. In November, the Impact Centre team unveiled a solar-powered overhead LED lamp that was...
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Comfable continues crowdfunding campaign for QTemp – a wearable smart weather...
Living in Canada, especially in Toronto, means having to live with unpredictable weather. We all know that weather reports, which get their data from airports and other far away locations, can vary...
View ArticleStudent Spotlight: from hands-on experience with an innovative lighting...
The light went on for Glen Shin when he got a chance to flex his management accounting skills in an internship with Impact Centre company, Lumentra. “While I was studying, it was more of getting the...
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Pueblo Science opens March Break Camp registration and wows kids on and off...
Registration is now open for the Pueblo Science March Break Camp. The program, which runs from March 14 to 18, is a full day camp for kids currently in grades 1 – 6. Kids will experience hands-on...
View ArticleWhere do good business ideas come from?
I’m doing a piece of research with U of T that looks at where good business ideas come from and it’s making me look back at some of the very bad business ideas I’ve had over many years. It seems that...
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Sitcom Startup Ideas
In a startup world full of ideas, it’s difficult to separate the Sitcom Startup Ideas from the good ideas. I must admit that I didn’t coin the phrase but am copying something that Paul Graham wrote in...
View ArticlePathcore selected by US National Cancer Institute to enable cancer...
Impact Centre company Pathcore and a team of investigators from the United States and Canada have received a five-year, $2.92M award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a division of the National...
View ArticleNXTSENS wins sensor industry group elevator pitch session
Impact Centre company NXTSENS recently won the Elevator Pitch Session hosted by the trade association MEMS & Sensors Industry Group (MIG). The competition saw five finalists from startups,...
View ArticleExplore Entrepreneurship program supports undergraduate innovation
In collaboration with Victoria College, Woodsworth College, University College, Innis College, the Impact Centre is excited to launch Explore Entrepreneurship. This undergraduate-focused program was...
View ArticleEchofos selected as semi-finalist in photonics startup challenge
Impact Centre company Echofos has been selected as a semi-finalist in the SPIE Startup Challenge. Echofos is developing a cancer diagnostic system that uses sound waves to “listen” for cancer cells in...
View ArticleImpact Centre to publish first innovation Research Brief
Understanding the foundations of innovation and how to better support new transformational companies is a key focus of the Impact Centre. The upcoming launch of our first Research Brief, “Thinking...
View ArticleComfable raises $43,000 on Kickstarter for QTemp wearable weather station
Congratulations to the Comfable team for their successful Kickstarter campaign. With over 700 backers and 35 media mentions around the world, the company easily exceeded their $35,000 fundraising goal....
View ArticleAnnouncing the new Techno2016 entrepreneurship training program
Changing times need flexible programs. We announced last fall that Techno2015 was the last session of our four-week intensive entrepreneurship training program. For 2016, the Techno program is being...
View ArticleCloud Cuckoo Land
Yes, Cloud Cuckoo Land' is really a place and there are lots of entrepreneurs who live there. Wikipedia defines it as "a state of absurdly over-optimistic fantasy or an unrealistically idealistic state...
View ArticleCanadians lag Americans in their attitudes to Innovation
Our recent study on attitudes towards innovation found that there are 29% more Americans than Canadians who have a strongly positive attitude towards innovation. Americans outscore us in almost every...
View ArticlePueblo Science March Break Camp
Registration is now open for the Pueblo Science March Break Camp. The program, which runs from March 14 to 18, is a full-day camp for kids currently in grades 1 through 6. Kids will experience hands-on...
View ArticleWeekly news roundup: February 6 – 12, 2016
Everyone at the Impact Centre is involved in the national and international conversations on improving commercialization and innovation. Here are some news articles, op-eds and announcements that we...
View ArticleWho says Canadian innovators lack grit?
There are lots of people running around trying to figure out why Canada has a problem scaling tech companies. Without meaning to address this issue, I may have stumbled onto on of the reasons: Grit. Or...
View ArticleBreaking through the academic ivory tower
By Cynthia Goh I grew up on a remote tropical island in the Philippines with no running water and no electricity. The sun sets everyday at 6 o’clock and once it does it gets dark. Very dark. The only...
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