Waterloo february 27th

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