December 8, Ottawa Business Journal, Elizabeth Howell OCRI’s Michael Darch will be an executive-in-residence at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business and engineering faculty. His new role will put him in touch with students and faculty in two programs –international business and technology innovation management – to advise on global business and technology innovation. A frequent ...

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November 25, 2010, Ottawa Business Journal, Elizabeth Howell The company’s business model is multimedia, everywhere you go. And unlike Apple’s iPhone, the music, videos and pictures will work on multiple platforms. Rick O’Connor, the founder of The Ottawa Network’s (TON) annual startup camp, talks proudly about Nuvyyo – the progeny of one of last year’s two ...

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November 23 2010, The Matt Roberts Blog Aydin tweeted (or maybe I imagined it) that it’s that time of year, no, not Christmas but the time when OCRI picks local companies for their awards in the new year. And of course yours truly has a particular bunch of startups and companies in mind. Not to ...

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November 23 2010, METRO, by Joe Lofaro Neptec engineers wooed the crowd at their company headquarters yesterday with some of their latest work, including the concept lunar rover, dubbed “Juno.” Moments before operating a concept lunar rover at high-tech company Neptec yesterday, Minister of Research and Innovation Glen Murray announced new funding for Ottawa. The ...

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News Release – McGuinty Government Supporting Entrepreneurs, Bringing Local Ideas To Life November 22 2010. Ministry of Research and Innovation The Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI)  has been selected to join the new Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE) . ONE consists of 14 regional innovation centres across Ontario. These centres help local entrepreneurs ...

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November 19, 2010, Ottawa Business Journal, Elizabeth Howell Stats say local non-profit hiring blew away public, private sectors in 2009 It’s an organization where staffing levels stayed constant during the darkest depths of the economic crisis, and management regularly talks about working for meaning. The Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa, which employs about 270 full-time ...

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November 15, 2010, Ottawa Citizen,  Andrew Duffy Conference focus on triple-p: people, planet, profit The former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, will be the keynote speaker at an Ottawa conference that aims to knit together corporations and charitable groups. The lofty goal of the conference, hosted by Algonquin College, is to create better communities by ...

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Welcome back to this semester’s OCRI updates. Back in October, we looked at how to kick off a project. Today we’ll talk about learning programming. Last Monday I visited All Saints High School here in Ottawa. The students there are creating Flash-based games for a class of grade 3 students at a neighbouring grade school. ...

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Keynote speaker and author John Sweeney realizes that a 12-inch steel bladed knife in the forearm is not the best way to illustrate innovation. Last week, the long standing knife throwing routine that has punctuated Sweeney’s speeches for several years went amiss, coming to an abrupt and painful end in an ambulance. Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) ...

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November 10 2010, Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says he will continue to take the high road as the province heads toward an election next October. On Wednesday morning McGuinty toured the Entrepreneurship Centre highlighting at City Hall and will deliver remarks to the Ontario Liberal Fund at the annual Trillium dinner ...

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