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WATERLOO AS A GLOBAL
INNOVATION HUB - THE
GLOBALIZATION OF VENTURE
CAPITAL
Jim de Wilde February 27, 2013
www.jimdewilde.net
WATERLOO IN GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
Will Connors in Wall Street Journal
FAST COMPANY Lazaridis
Karen Mazurkewich on Class of ’99http://www.fastcompany.com/3004344/rims-mike-lazaridis-takes-quantum-leap-faith-waterloo
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444004704578030573518777776.html
INNOVATION IN ONTARIO
Scientific Literacy
Corporate Venture Funds (Industrial Biotech, Nanomaterials, Food Toxicology)
Corporate Venturing and acquiring scale – how to get from $10 million to $250 million valuations
Commercialization ecosystems (engineering firms, capital markets, university projects)
THE GLOBALIZATION OF VENTURE CAPITAL -
WATERLOO AS AN INNOVATION HUB
Skolkovo
TIE
China networks, e.g. Chengwei, Gobi Ventures
ATOMICO
ARCTIC STARTUP
C-100
Arab venture capital GULF VC
UW as global hub of thinking
about innovation in the digital
ageCapital markets, universities, engineering firms
Global alliances for innovation
Understanding moral life in a digital age
Cyberterrorism and cybersecurity in an age of constant digital overload
GLOBAL INNOVATION – SOME DRIVING FORCES
Big Data (data analytics, the upside of transparency and the risks of overestimating quantitative analysis)
Smart Infrastructure (internet of things, smart cities, smart grids )
E-learning (the transformation of education)
Health innovation (evidence-based research and global healthcare restructuring)
SEA-CHANGES IN EDUCATION,
MEDIA HEALTH, DEAL-FINANCING
"Full fathom five thy father lies,Of his bones are coral made,Those are pearls that were his eyes,Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-change,into something rich and strange.
Shakespeare, THE TEMPEST
For example, where is Niger and
what do we need to know and
understand?
FUSION OF MEDIA AND EDUCATION
Where is Niger? (Now that the U.S. is putting a west African base for drones there.)
What do we need to know? We need Wikipedia and analysis (why universities will always be with us)
Crowdsourcing ( we need real-time web-knowledge, e.g. USHAHIDI and contextual knowledge, e.g. the history of Niger)
Data architecture and digital education
HELSINKI-WATERLOO:
Global mobility products
Innovation in digital media
NEXT GENERATION INVENTIVE SPACES
Fusion of industrial biotechnology, environmental industries, health innovation and agricultural productivity
Data analytics (which evidence do we need to collect?)
Health innovation business models
E-learning best practices
LEADERSHIP INNOVATION CONFERENCE April 22-23
Building global networks a magnet for GLOBAL VC
Establishing competitive advantage (Ontario understands digital innovation in education, global mobility, quantum computing, strategic use of data analytics)
Syndication of venture capital - becoming a place where deals originate and Ontario builds scale
Being a Global Connector for Canada in the innovation-driven new
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