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Knowledge-based Workers Drive Economic Success

By Frank McCrea | March 6, 2013 5:45 AM | Categories: Economic development Canada Trends

The world of IT employment has changed over the decades. When I graduated from Western University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, computers were new, networks didn’t exist as we know them now and there were plenty of full-time opportunities to be had.

Canadian Start-up Creates World’s Number One Antibody Resource

By Backbone Staff | November 26, 2012 5:45 AM | Categories: Economic development Canada Technology start-ups

Online portal 1DegreeBio connects 85,000 scientists worldwide. Working in a large biotechnology lab, Alex Hodgson noticed a strange duplication of cost and effort. Researchers were purchasing multiple versions of the same antibodies for their studies, because relying on a single source they could never be sure of adequate quality. “And you can’t do great research with crap antibodies,” says Hodgson.

Putting Some Substance into Canada’s Digital Economy Penske File

By Michael Geist | September 6, 2012 5:00 AM | Categories: Digital economy strategy Economic development Canada

Industry Minister Christian Paradis paid a visit to the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto last week to deliver a speech focused on the digital economy. As has been the case for months, the speech was short on specifics but filled with platitudes about a forthcoming digital economy strategy that "challenges our innovators" and "drives new technology."