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Collaborating for Investment Attraction in the Toronto Region

The links between foreign investment, innovation and digital infrastructure

March 9, 2018

Having the right digital infrastructure is a key ingredient to helping cities attract foreign investment. Collaborating for Investment Attraction in the Toronto Region, a new report by two University of Toronto researchers, explains how multinational corporations expanding their operations evaluate potential ... Continue Reading

High-speed drug discovery

October 5, 2017

A supercomputing collaboration between Alberta and Ontario, made possible by the national research and education network (NREN), is speeding up life-saving drug discoveries. --- How do you screen billions of drug compounds to find the right one? Connect a research ... Continue Reading

ORION presents the 2017 ORION Leadership Award Winners

May 24, 2017

TORONTO, May 24, 2017 – ORION is pleased to present three exceptional leaders in Ontario’s research, education and innovation community with the 2017 Leadership Awards at a ceremony today at ORION’s annual THINK Conference. These outstanding leaders leveraged ORION’s unique digital ... Continue Reading

Dreaming Together: Connecting the Dots Between Researchers and Volunteers

October 2, 2013

Baycrest Health Sciences is a global leader in developing and providing innovations in aging and brain health. Contributing to the hospital’s success is the Rotman Research Institute which is continually finding and testing new solutions to keep our minds healthy.The ... Continue Reading

The Atlas Experiment: BIG data and the hunt for the “God Particle”

April 2, 2012

The Atlas Experiment is an international collaborative success story. In July 2008, scientists around the world were expecting terabytes of collision data to be transmitted to labs around the world from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Experiment in Geneva, Switzerland. ... Continue Reading