Taking your innovation to market

Here are a few organizations that are helping commercialize innovation, driving economic prosperity and growth in Ontario:

Q Almost everyone in Canada knows that RIM and its BlackBerry are the best modern example of research becoming a successful technology, but what's your personal relationship to technology?
A I was what they now call an early adapter. In 1984, I put my email address on my business cards - during a time when almost nobody in the business world even knew what email was. It was just some research project that a few universities and the U.S. military seemed to care about. I also got quite interested in the computer networks that carried emails. Again at the time, they were mainly seen as a research curiosity - toys for boys.
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There has not been a Nobel Prize won in the life sciences area in Ontario since Banting, Best and McLeod won for insulin in 1923. Since that time, 30 Nobel Prizes have been won by scientists from Boston, and a total of 85 Nobel Prizes have been won by American scientists.