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The Peterborough-Kawartha Lakes-Haliburton-Northumberland answer to the Dragon's Den returns next spring, when the Workforce Development Board brings the Bear's Lair back for a second year.

Vigen Nazarian has borne a cross ever since he immigrated from Iran 30 years ago, His name is difficult to pronounce.

It will all come down to the best pitch and the perfect sell as area entrepreneurs get ready for the second annual Bears' Lair Entrepreneurial Competition.

A passion for creating a business in unmanned flying aerial vehicles that involved key partnerships with university researchers and other Ontario corporations to advance the research, development and commercialization of a new technology, has garnered the team at Aeryon Labs Inc. the prestigious Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) 2011 Mind to Market Award.

PlantForm Corporation and the University of Guelph have been jointly named a finalist for the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) 2011 Mind to Market Award.

The Ontario Centres of Excellence gave the Martin Walmsley Fellowship for Technological Entrepreneurship award, totalling $50,000, to Innovative Processing Technologies Inc. The one-year fellowship supports Ibraheem Khan's company's application of multiple-memory material (MMM).

A passion for creating a business in unmanned flying aerial vehicles that involved key partnerships with university researchers and other Ontario corporations to advance the research, development and commercialization of a new technology, has garnered the team at Aeryon Labs Inc. the prestigious Ontario Centres of Excellence 2011 Mind to Market Award.

Communications Program students Wen Li, Ye Chi and Louel Abastillas won best project honours from the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Connections program for their work with BOOM Studio.

When it comes to movies, forget about popped kernels of corn, and start thinking about Popcorn.js, a new way for web filmmakers to create videos with innovative interactive components.

The Accelerator for Commercialization Excellence (ACE) is a unique partnership between the Centre for Commercialization of Research (CCR), the University of Waterloo (UW), and the Accelerator Centre.

How do you solve a problem such as landfill? Air. An aerobic landfill technology has been proposed to help speed up the decomposition of the former Sabiston landfill site in Thornhill, at John Street and Don Mills Road.

When people say that academics make the world's worst businessmen, Alan Darlington can understand where they're coming from.

Once you first notice them, you start to see them everywhere. Small black and white grids, of seemingly random squares, QR codes are increasingly adorning newspapers, posters, signs and other everyday products.

Cities face tough decisions when trying to encourage economic development, whether it's deciding how best to develop an old stadium site or weighting strategies to encourage new businesses on a declining main street.

For most occasional observers of the algal scene, the focus generally follows on major players such as Sapphire Energy, Algenol, Solix Technologies, Phycal, and Aurora Algae.

Improving the understanding of the affect of contaminant, such as snow and ice, on aircraft braking performance is of keen interest to our industry stakeholders and they are working hard, together, to do something about this global challenge.

While there will no doubt be the occasional post that will still fall into the Commercialization Ecosystem category, today marks the official end of this series with which we launched our new blog back in February.

New businesses are frequently missing out on funding and educational opportunities that are meant to help them succeed.

It's always a pleasure to share stories about how technology can change someone's life for the better. This story is truly inspiring and completely blew me away.

As stereoscopic 3D becomes a more standardized feature in HDTVs, desktop displays and handheld devices, it's presenting new opportunities for content developers.