Background
Innovative companies that are building Canada’s future. From helping entrepreneurs launch and grow high-impact ventures to capturing global market opportunities for our ventures, MaRS focuses its work on three main sectors: Information & Communications Technology (ICT), Cleantech, and Health. In addition, social innovation is an overarching area of focus at MaRS. The social innovation team works alongside the other sector teams, helping provide a social innovation lens to MaRS venture clients that identify a social mission.
Full Description
This initiative will have four phases: discovery, development, incubation, and implementation. A grant from the Foundation will support the following:
- an office at MaRS Discovery District, Canada’s largest innovation hub
- professional staff – skilled in systems transformation and social innovation – to provide thought leadership
- outreach across Canada, engaging service providers and recipients: businesses, and local, regional, national and international networks and collaborators, as well as civil society partners already operating in this sector
- training, assessment and reporting on progress
- a technology platform for accessing tools and resources and to facilitate matches
- a national, bilingual, high-visibility social media campaign
Overview
- 2016-2022
- $ 1,750,000
- Funding Type: Past Initiatives
- Initiatives: General contributions