Ottawa's innovation engine pumping power into life science and software clusters
September 20, 2011 Ottawa, the city that urban guru Richard Florida rates as “Best Overall” in Canada on his Creative Class Index, is making its contribution to the province and the entire country better known this week as its innovation engine pumps power into the the life science and software clusters. In life sciences, the Ottawa Life Sciences Cluster, an industry-driven team being steered by OCRI's Global Marketing group, is working hard to drive more collaboration among 90-plus companies, institutes and research centres located in the region. The goal is a new generation of globally-focused companies like Ottawa's eSight Corp., which makes electronically assisted vision systems set to eclipse the multi-billion dollar hearing-aid market in just a few years.