market2world recently prepared a series of PDFs for OCRI’s global marketing group that benchmarks Ottawa against four major U.S. “tech consideration cities”: Boston, New York, San Jose, and Washington.  When international companies consider locating or expanding in North America, they often forget the “North” option. The research, which leads with results from the Martin...

The TalentBridge mentoring continues and tomorrow I’m lucky enough to have the opportunity to attend the prestigious Ottawa Venture & Technology Summit held at the Chateau Laurier.  Manu Sharma invited me to join their table.  If you haven’t heard about it, it’s an annual event held by OCRI the purpose of which is to showcase new and young Ottawa based companies to the business...

There is a lot of  social media hype going around…. GET on the BANDWAGON, include it in your MARKETING STRATEGY, set up a BLOG, a TWITTER account, a LINKEDIN account, a FACEBOOK ….(all caps lock words heard as if on loud speaker).  It’s exhausting and just confusing.  Most of those I met during the networking portion at Zone 5ive: 50 Ideas on Using Twitter and LinkedIn for Business...

Looking for support?  Whether you’re a student, researcher, or entrepreneur, I can promise you there are a lot more programs available to you across Ontario then you think.  But we don’t hear about them enough.  As a student, I can a test to that.  Finally a central up-to-date database has been created by OCRI with that information right at your fingertips:  Academic Research Commercialization...