Success Stories

Novo Plastics

Creating a Niche in the Global Auto Industry

3XR Inc.

Cleaning our water and greening our fields

Messier-Dowty Inc.

Messier-Dowty’s Ajax facility plays a vital role in the company’s global success.

XLV Diagnostics Inc.

From the lab to the market: Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Sunnybrook Research Institute, and MaRS Innovation join forces to launch new start-up medical imaging company

Cineflow

Kitchener’s Cineflow is a small company today, but it’s about to transform how motion pictures are produced worldwide.

GlaxoSmithKline

New investment means new jobs, and industry leaders like GlaxoSmithKline Inc. (GSK) are expanding their operations in Ontario.

Biorem

A strategic partnership in Guelph is creating clean technology for the auto industry and international recognition for a local company.

Entropex

Transforming plastics recycling

Evergreen Brick Works

Social Innovation in Action

Monforte Dairy

What happens when social innovation meets artisan cheese? You get a company like Monforte Dairy – a Stratford-based producer with a different approach to doing business.

Social Capital Partners

Social Capital Partners (SCP) is a firm that invests in start-ups – but unlike other such firms, SCP invests in start–ups with a double bottom line. It looks for returns not only in revenue, but in social impact as well.

EcoSynthetix Inc.

Global Innovation and Technology Demonstration Centre - Creating green jobs in Halton

Horizon Plastics International Inc.

Green technology - Creating manufacturing jobs in Cobourg

Fusenet

Taking casual Fridays to a whole new level helps employees grow their ideas, and their company

Pipeline Studios Inc. (PSi)

World-class animation studio fuels growth for Sheridan College students and itself

LifeLike BioTissue

A University of Western Ontario spin-off is helping surgeons practise to make perfect.

Trojan Technologies

Continuous innovation leads to over three decades of world-leading wastewater management

Cinevate Inc.

From the basement to the boardroom, local entrepreneur is equipping new-age filmmakers with the tools they need

Sencia Canada Ltd.

Two local techies turn the dot.com bust into a boom for Thunder Bay

Radix Controls Inc.

Homegrown technology improves manufacturing while helping job recovery

Red Piston Inc.

Three young Windsor entrepreneurs turn adversity into a dream job

BKIN Technologies

A robotic breakthrough is changing the way brain injuries are studied and treated

Octane Biotech Inc.

Bringing Regenerative Medicine To Life

Flybits

Paris Metro first to use made-in-Canada app

GestureTek and OCAD University

GestureTek + OCADU = The Art Of Innovation

Quantum Dental Technologies

A Quantum Leap For Dental Care

Algoma Games for Health

Leading-edge gaming technology helps stroke victims

Community Geomatics Centre

Ground-breaking emergency response and health technology improves safety of communities

Argonault Corporation

A Thornhill company is overcoming barriers with a wheelchair that can climb stairs

Tertec Enterprises Inc.

A Markham company is providing an electronic companion for those in need

Baylis Medical Company

A Mississauga company harnesses the healing power of electricity

Woodland Biofuels Inc.

A Mississauga company transforms waste into profitable, environmentally friendly fuel

Mihealth

Mihealth puts your medical info in your pocket

WipWare

Companies worldwide turn to North Bay company for materials analysis

Jannatec Radio Technologies

Jannatec shines the light on mining safety innovation

Northern Centre For Advanced Technology Inc. (NORCAT)

NORCAT's mining know-how a key to supporting human life on the moon

University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)

How a leading Ontario university is fostering innovation through collaboration

GreenWorks Solar Power

Creating a new industry for farmers and clean energy for Ontario

University of Guelph's Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility and Nedlaw Living Walls

Growing crops in space and better indoor air quality on earth

Linamar

Where Innovation Is A Core Value

Desire2Learn

A Kitchener company has a true learning experience.

P&P Optica

A Kitchener company is getting results quickly.

Aeryon Labs

A Waterloo company is flying to new heights.

B-Con Engineering

A Shining Example of Innovation in Ontario.

HousAll Systems Corporation

An Ottawa company houses the poor and the displaced.

Neptec Design Group Ltd.

An Ottawa company is creating technology that's out of this world.

McMaster University's Bhatia Makes Blood Breakthrough

In an important breakthrough, scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin.

Keyframe Digital Productions Inc.

How two small town Ontario guys with a bright idea created an award-winning company that is now a regular in the broadcast and movie industries.

Canadian Oak Cooperage

The new gold standard for oak wine barrels: how a Niagara Region company is making Ontario wines even more homegrown.

PV Labs & VitaSound

How a leading Hamilton entrepreneur facilitated the growth of two Hamilton high-tech industry leading companies.

Dejero Labs

Dejero Labs – their technology makes it possible to transmit broadcast-quality live video over cellular networks, simply and economically – as seen in the live coverage of the Olympic Torch Relay.

The Health Technology Exchange (HTX)

Ontario is investing over $21 million in The Health Technology Exchange (HTX) , which will help HTX partner with innovative companies, research institutions and health providers to develop cutting-edge medical and assistive technologies (MAT) that can be marketed to the world.  Over the first five years, the investment is expected to help create more than 130 new jobs and retain additional high-tech jobs.

Vive Nano

Ontario is supporting the development of breakthrough technology that will help create jobs and protect the environment. The province is supporting Toronto-based Vive Nano , an award-winning company that has developed an environmentally-friendly process for creating products and materials using nanotechnology. Ontario is investing almost $3.8 million through the Innovation Demonstration Fund to help the company build a pilot plant, refine its processes and come to full production levels. The company expects to create 19 new high-skill jobs over the next two years, including chemists, technicians, engineers, project managers and a controller.

The Communitech Hub: Digital Media & Mobile Accelerator

Ontario is supporting a new commercialization centre that will help digital media entrepreneurs build new companies and create jobs. The province plans to invest more than $26 million in The Communitech Hub: Digital Media & Mobile Accelerator (“The Hub”), a new centre that will help emerging digital media companies grow and succeed in the global market. In particular, The Hub will look beyond the entertainment sector to focus on companies creating hardware and software for industries, including advanced manufacturing, healthcare and finance.

eSight

Thanks to a $500,000 investment from Ontario’s Investor Accelerator Fund, Kanata-based eSight will be able to bring their “evSpex” to the global market. For people with inoperable low vision, this new technology means improved sight. The evSpex consists of a wearable headset and a touch screen unit where users input their settings. With this investment, eSight expects to grow by 25 people in the next two years.

BIOREM Technologies Inc.

BIOREM designs and manufactures environmentally friendly air pollution control systems that remove odours and harmful contaminants from the air. Specially formulated particles are used in the biofiltration process, and promote the growth of bacteria and other organisms that clean the air by feeding on odour-causing chemicals.

Sentinelle Medical Inc.

Sentinelle’s technology improves the performance of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) breast cancer detection. Sentinelle has developed a technique to improve MRI detection of breast cancer, resulting in shorter testing time, reduced costs, better images and 3-D visualization software for reading MR images.

Dr. Hertzel Gerstein

When McMaster University scientist Dr. Hertzel Gerstein began researching diabetes in the early 1990s, there was no word for the abnormal glucose levels that are prevalent among diabetic and pre-diabetic patients. So he invented a word to describe it – dysglycemia – and today it’s in use by medical professionals around the world.

Dr. Tom Hudson

From his eighth floor offices in the South Tower of the MaRS complex, Dr. Tom Hudson has a panoramic view of the many research facilities that comprise Toronto’s downtown Discovery District. Within easy view, Hudson can survey world-class biomedical research facilities at the University of Toronto, The Hosptial for Sick Children, and Mount Sinai, Princess Margaret and Toronto General hospitals.

Dr. Andras Nagy

Dr. Andras Nagy keeps a dog-eared, coffee stained lunch menu from a restaurant outside of Munich, Germany close to him at his desk in a lab office in Toronto’s downtown Discovery District.

That menu – one side covered in crude circles and triangles, connected by crooked arrows and cryptic words like PiggyBac and Sox – represents little more than bored doodling to the untrained eye. But that menu is the genesis of what has become one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs in stem cell research in recent years.

Dr. Michael Salter

Dr. Michael Salter is one of Ontario’s leading pain researchers, exploring the very genesis of pain at the molecular level. His work is opening new doors to our understanding of cell-to-cell communication throughout the body’s nervous system. And his discoveries offer new hope of relief for millions of chronic pain sufferers around the world.

Dr. Anthony Pawson

Ontario is supporting world-class biomedical research by matching renowned University of Toronto cell biologist Dr. Anthony Pawson’s $500,000 Kyoto Prize.  Dr. Pawson’s research at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital has been instrumental in the fight against diseases including diabetes and cancer.  He is one of the first Canadians to ever receive the Kyoto Prize.

EcoVu

Meet Ray Novokowsky and his team at EcoVu in Kanata, Ontario. $4 million from the Ontario government is helping EcoVu bring new water purification technology to the global market.

Molecular Breast Imaging System

Ontario has been chosen to lead the world in clinical trials of new technologies for detecting breast cancer.

Purdue Pharma Canada

Meet Rosa Martins and four co-workers at Purdue Pharma Canada in Pickering. They’ll soon be joined by 53 new employees, thanks to Ontario government support.

Transforming Cardiac Care

Graham Wright is a man on a mission. His goal is to extend Ontario’s leadership in the fight against cardiovascular disease by developing the next-generation of imaging tools.

Turning Landfills Into Valuable Assets

Chances are, when you leave your garbage at the curb for pickup, you don’t give it another thought.

Taking Solar Power Mainstream

“The sun is by far the largest potential source of energy for the planet,“ says Dr. Nazir Kherani. “In fact, if we could capture all the energy reaching us from the sun in just one hour and turn it into electricity, we could power the earth for a year.”

Centre For The Control Of Emerging Contaminants: Protecting Our Water Supply

In May 2007 major media outlets across the country reported on a study by a Canadian fish researcher. What she’d discovered was that trace amounts of estrogen – used in birth control pills – found in lake water was enough to seriously distort development in entire fish species.

Centre for Brain and Mind: Exploring the Connection Between Brain and Behaviour

There’s no mistaking the enthusiasm in Dr. Melvyn Goodale’s voice when he talks about the work being done at The University of Western Ontario’s Centre for Brain and Mind.

U of T Research Team Aims to Harness the Wind to Produce Clean Energy

Wind power – it’s clean and renewable. And it diversifies the energy supply.

But there’s one big problem with it. Because the wind doesn’t blow all the time, wind- generated power can be unpredictable. And that’s slowing its growth both in Ontario and around the world.

Digging Smarter: Ontario Becoming a World Leader in Mining Technology

Anyone who thinks mining is about picks and shovels, should think again, says Dr. Peter Kaiser.

“Mining is a high-tech industry with sophisticated exploration technologies, automated equipment and advanced modeling and simulation technology,” says Dr. Kaiser. “And it’s worth between $6 and $8 billion a year to the Ontario economy.”

Fuel Cell Research Surging Ahead to Make Clean, Green Fuel a Reality

With the environment a top concern for Canadians, the pressure is on to reduce green- house gas emissions – and do it quickly.

That’s one of the goals of the Ontario Fuel Cell Research and Innovation Network. Formed in August 2005, the network is a partnership between industry and researchers at eight universities across Ontario that aims to harness the potential of fuel cell technology.

Initiative for Automotive Manufacturing and Innovation to Drive the Future of Ontario’s Auto Industry

With $100 billion in annual sales, the auto industry is the engine that drives Ontario’s economy.

But while we make more cars and parts than anywhere else in North America, in recent years our industry has come under increasing pressure from low cost, less regulated jurisdictions.

Bringing New Tools From the Lab to the Patient’s Bedside

“Advanced instruments for studying biological systems have been essential in revolutionizing our understanding of health and disease,” says Dr. Dwayne Miller, professor of chemistry and physics at the University of Toronto and director of the Institute for Optical Sciences (IOS).

Farm and Forestry Fueling Green Car of the Future

Dr. Mohini Sain’s interest in developing an environmentally friendly automobile began when he was a student at St. Xavier’s College in Calcutta, India. At the time, Dr. Sain commuted from school to home via public transit that gave him plenty of time to observe just how much pollution vehicles were producing.

Coming Soon To Your Grocery Store: “Intelligent” Food Packaging

Imagine food packaging that changes colour once the product has passed its “best before” date. That possibility – and hundreds more like it – are one step closer, thanks to researchers like Dr. Loong-Tak Lim at the University of Guelph and his investigations into active and intelligent food packaging.

Ottawa Researchers Lead International Team Focused On Improving Infant Hearing

To see a hearing-impaired infant respond to her mother’s laugh for the first time is like witnessing a miracle; an Ottawa research team has launched a search to discover new ways to make that miracle happen more often.

Harnessing Nature In The Fight Against Cancer

With cancer causing more than 25,000 deaths in Ontario and almost 60,000 new cases being reported every year, researchers at Sudbury’s Laurentian University are joining the race to discover natural products with cancer fighting properties.

Future Of Forest Industry Shifts From Hard Hats To Lab Coats

The future of Ontario’s forest industry will be shaped not just by workers in hardhats but also by researchers in lab coats.  Scientists like the University of Toronto’s Dr. Emma Master are applying the latest discoveries in biotechnology to develop innovative new, high-value forestry products.