Ottawa's innovation engine pumping power into life science and software clusters

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.

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Ottawa tech innovation legend Tony Bailetti to be honoured at OCRI AGM

Hey tech Ottawa, if you're looking for your number one reason to attend OCRI's Annual General Meeting May 5th, you've just found it. Carleton University's Tony Bailetti will be presented with the 2011 Ottawa Innovation Community award! I was just exchanging emails with Tony last night, thanking him for his instrumental role in the creation of Coral CEA, an Open Innovation software developer ecosystem that within nine months of receiving funding from the Ontario government, has helped create 7 new Ontario companies and 34 new jobs in the field of Communications Enabled Applications (CEA)

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