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Achieving Impact Through Adoption of Innovative ...

OBIO’s 2019 report describes an early adopter model to facilitate the evaluation and adoption of innovative health technologies in Ontario health organizations.

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Realizing the Promise of Healthcare Innovation ...

OBIO’s report, Realizing the Promise of Health Care Innovation: Increasing Value for the Patient, Health System and Economy, was published in 2013 and is a product of the Ontario Bioscience Economic Strategy Team (OBEST®), an initiative launched by OBIO to address the challenges faced by Ontario’s human health technology and bioscience industry.

Realizing the Promise of Healthcare Innovation in Ontario
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Use It or Lose It: Industry Solutions to ...

OBIO’s 2018 Industry Consultation reports five recommendations from health science company executives on how to create the conditions for the growth of Ontario’s health science industry.

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Bridging the Talent Gap: Report on OBIO® Health ...

Bridging the Talent Gap reports on the unique value of OBIO’s Health to Business Bridge (H2BB™) business internship program. This report describes how H2BB™ addresses the challenge of pulling top talent into Ontario’s health science industry to address the talent gap identified by 96% of Ontario’s health science company CEOs.

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Tackling the Anchor Company Challenge: OBIO® ...

The “Tackling the Anchor Company Challenge Summit”, assembled industry, academic, government and investment leaders committed to working together to create a mandate of action for anchoring health science companies in Ontario.

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Health Science Insider™ (OBIO Strategic Review: July 2016)

2016 has already been a productive year for OBIO as we push forward on our advocacy efforts, expand our Health Science networks and partnerships and continue to provide access to capital for Ontario Health Science companies in order for them to reach the next level. 

Gail Garland, CEO

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OBIO® Report: Canadian health industry competitive but doesn't stand out

OBIO is a not-for-profit organization committed to the development of an integrated health innovation economy for the province. Its report, How Canada Should be Engaging in a $9 Trillion Dollar Health Economy, was based on surveys and interviews with 125 CEOs of health science companies around the country. It makes recommendations aimed to ensure Canadians get the economic and patient benefits from being competitive in the global health market.

PATHS TO THE FUTURE: HOW CANADA SHOULD BE ENGAGING IN A $9 TRILLION DOLLAR HEALTH ECONOMY VS. THE CANADIAN INNOVATION AGENDA

On Tuesday June 16, 2016 the first steps began towards the development of a Canadian National Inclusive Innovation Agenda. In a joint announcement the Minister of Innovation Science and Economic Development, Minister of Science, and the Minister of Small Business and Tourism unveiled 6 action areas to build an innovative Canada. 

Federal Budget Misses Opportunity to Scale and Grow Health Science Companies

The 2016 Federal Liberal budget contains funding to support a much needed Innovation Agenda and promises to build globally competitive companies. At the same time the majority of this funding is directed to incubators and accelerators, granting councils and public institutions to support basic research. In order to compete in the $9 trillion global health science economy, Canada needs to devote financial resources to health science companies at the next stage of development by investing in scale up, job creation and revenue generation. 

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OBIO Strategic Review: December 2015

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch


As we come to the end of 2015, OBIO is proud of a year that has been characterized by recognition and support from our partners and sponsors, new learnings from the extensive feedback we received during our industry consultations and a very busy schedule as we delivered on programming and advocacy work.

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