Ontario Centres of Excellence

COVER HEADLINE:

WHERE’S NEXT?

SPREAD 1 HEADLINE:

IT’S IN OUR MIDST.

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Next. It’s all around us. A spir­it of inno­va­tion, sweep­ing across Ontario, open­ing us up to the promise of an incred­i­ble future.

Prod­ucts we can bare­ly dream of. Jobs so new, they haven’t got a name yet. And an eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty explod­ing with growth and oppor­tu­ni­ty. That promise is here, dar­ing us to make it real.

We can. And we must. By mak­ing Ontario syn­ony­mous with inge­nu­ity. By build­ing the com­pet­i­tive poten­cy our chang­ing world demands. By trans­form­ing our­selves into a glob­al inno­va­tion pow­er­house. And by rec­og­niz­ing that every­thing we need to make it hap­pen is right here.

At Ontario Cen­tres of Excel­lence, our sole pur­pose is to cre­ate this Ontario. Since 1987, we’ve been mak­ing the con­nec­tions, pro­vid­ing the guid­ance and invest­ing the seed fund­ing need­ed to turn our province’s sci­en­tif­ic dis­cov­er­ies into com­mer­cial suc­cess. Togeth­er with Ontar­i­ans, we’re help­ing to change the inno­va­tion land­scape. And to show the world that, for Ontario, Next isn’t far off. It’s with­in our schools. Our labs. Our busi­ness­es. And our reach.

SPREAD #2 HEADLINE: 

IT’S IN OUR BLOOD.

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Inno­va­tion is dri­ven by a pas­sion for dis­cov­ery. A pas­sion that’s alive in Ontario, run­ning through our veins as well as our imaginations.

It push­es us to delve deep­er. To rewrite the equa­tion. To increase the mag­ni­fi­ca­tion. To keep going until we get some­thing that’s bet­ter than right. Until we get some­thing revolutionary.

That spir­it was ingrained in the peo­ple who first built this province. And it’s in us. Impelling us to blaze trails in fields like biotech­nol­o­gy, where Ontar­i­ans are rethink­ing the med­ical tool­box, and launch­ing prod­ucts that can improve thou­sands of lives at the micro and macro level.

No spir­it is more vital to Ontario’s sur­vival in the chang­ing glob­al mar­ket­place. Which is why Ontario must be a place where our most dri­ven thinkers have every oppor­tu­ni­ty to succeed.

Ontario Cen­tres of Excel­lence is work­ing to shape such an Ontario. Each day, we have our eyes on the hori­zon and our ears to the ground. Iden­ti­fy­ing inno­va­tion. Incu­bat­ing it. And help­ing forge the rela­tion­ships that can bring it to life. We’re com­pelled to do this by one dri­ving desire: to spur on Ontario’s instinct for Next.

SPREAD 3 HEADLINE:

IT’S IN OUR POWER.

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Where can Ontario look to find all it needs to become a force for Next? Ontario.

We’ve got what it takes to dri­ve inno­va­tion for­ward at every stage, through every bar­ri­er. Bar­ri­ers like time. Cost. Intense glob­al com­pe­ti­tion. And the intim­i­dat­ing prospect of failure.

Daunt­ing chal­lenges. But we have many rea­sons to feel con­fi­dent. Our research labs and hos­pi­tals are equipped to gen­er­ate world-chang­ing dis­cov­er­ies. Our thought lead­ers are ignit­ing new ideas on risk and local invest­ment. And our provin­cial gov­ern­ment is not only herald­ing inno­va­tion as cru­cial to our future, but is tak­ing action to make that future inevitable.

At the heart of it all is our most pow­er­ful engine—people. Which is why Ontario Cen­tres of Excel­lence helps sup­port hot­hous­es of inge­nu­ity at research insti­tu­tions. The pay­off is more high­ly qual­i­fied peo­ple involved in more vital projects. More careers in emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies. And a U‑turn of the brain drain, keep­ing our human cap­i­tal and inno­va­tion poten­tial right here, ben­e­fit­ing all Ontarians.

With all of this work­ing for us, we can make an Ontario that’s unpar­al­leled. And unstoppable.

SPREAD 4 HEADLINE:

WHERE’S NEXT? IT’S RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.

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Ontar­i­ans aren’t just wait­ing for Next to arrive. They’re speed­ing towards it. Whether it’s a dream­er cross­ing abridge to join a doer. A mak­er rac­ing to con­nect with the mar­ket­place. Or a stu­dent sprint­ing towards their future as a lead­ing innovator.

The ulti­mate des­ti­na­tion is an Ontario we can already envi­sion. A mag­net for inno­va­tion, attract­ing vision­ar­ies to come learn, work and invest. An agile provider of solu­tions to an ever-chang­ing world. A place where the gen­er­a­tions ahead will live in eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty, and have the acute intel­li­gence and skills to forge what­ev­er world they wish.

We can get there. By trans­form­ing our­selves from pas­sen­gers into dri­vers, and by tak­ing the wheel of our own future. At Ontario Cen­tres of Excel­lence, Next is where we’re going. Where Ontario must go. We invite you to join us. It’s going to be an incred­i­ble ride.