MaRS Discovery District is a hub for innovation, accelerating emerging technology companies by enabling them with workspace, capital, education and guidance.

Tenant companies include advanced materials and engineering, cleantech, information and communication technology, life sciences & healthcare and social entrepreneurs.

Region

Ontario

Focus

MaRS helps create successful global businesses from Canada’s science, technology and social innovation communities.

Constituents and Partners

Please click here for a list of MaRS tenants

 

nGen brings together key partners in industry, economic development and post‐secondary education, offering an innovative business incubation and generation model that jump‐starts and grows young enterprise.

Region

Niagara Region, Ontario.

Focus

Collaboration, prototyping, production and business development, mentorship, access to technology, projects, seminars and networking..

Constituents and Partners

Please click here to visit nGen's partners page.

 

New Brunswick's IT and e-Business technology cluster conducts award-winning scientific research and develops critical technology platforms and programs.

The NRC Institute for Information Technology's (NRC-IIT's) Industry Partnership Facility (IPF) in Fredericton is further evidence of local success. Twenty three cluster companies and organizations working there have raised $36 million in equity since 2002, including $16.5 million in 2007

Region

New Brunswick

Focus

Commercialization and technology transfer, partnerships and collobarations, international networks and linkages

Constituents and Partners

Please click here to find out more on how the NRC engages companies in New Brunswick.

 

The Okanagan Research & Innovation Centre ORIC® is an independent non-profit organization managing high-tech business incubators/accelerators aimed at the creation of start-ups and nurturing sustainable growth of fledgling high-technology companies.

Region

Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

Focus

Startup creation and growth

Constituents and Partners

Please click here to visit ORIC's client page.

 

TRLabs creates innovative technologies and trains students to enhance ICT expertise and improve Canada's global competitiveness. Five labs across the prairie provinces employ university professors, graduate students, industrial partners, and staff researchers.

Region

Western Canada (Prairies)

Focus

Information Communication Technologies (ICT). Research, commercialization, and growth.

Constituents and Partners

Please click here to visit TRLabs partners page.

 

Wavefront improves speed-to-market and delivery of mobile applications and devices by providing emerging companies with training, advisory services, incubation office space and testing resources.

Wavefront also helps facilitate commercial engagement between the mobile ecosystem (mobile operators, platform providers, device manufacturers), enterprise companies and innovative developers.

Region

Pacific Northwest

Focus

Mobile commercialization, engagement

Constituents and Partners

Please click here to visit Wavefront's partners page.