Diversity of thought, culture and experiences-and yes, language-leads to human-centred solutions with widespread, meaningful applications, rather than just innovation for its own sake.Īnd remember: innovation isn’t always measured in leaps and bounds. In many ways, being centred in Canada provides a leg-up over other jurisdictions for the simple reason that we speak two official languages. It’s enhanced by your experiences in international markets. It starts with the learnings accrued through activities in your local market. You can fuel your innovation agenda in a variety of ways. It’s a cornerstone that should be embedded into your company’s foundation from Day 1 and the lifeblood that needs to flow within your entire organization, throughout its lifecycle. If I can offer one piece of advice to Canadian companies looking to go global, it’s this: embrace innovation.
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MaRS provides access to a number of free resources that can help you identify your competition, including our free online course, Introduction to Market Sizing.
PitchBook: Lets you research and analyze companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the entire private investment lifecycle. Gartner: Provides the most respected technology database out there, and offers insights, strategic advice and practical tools to achieve your mission-critical priorities. IBISWorld: Accelerates business decision-making by providing insights and analysis on thousands of global industries. Crunchbase: Provides a search platform to find prospects, investments, investors and market research. These are bespoke, world-class, proprietary databases that are populated with intelligence gathered by experts in all of the different jurisdictions. Keep in mind, searching on these databases isn’t your typical Google search. Become a member of any of these hubs and you’ll typically enjoy free access to these incredible tools. In fact, there are 17 regional innovation centres located throughout Ontario-MaRS is one-that are funded by the provincial Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade. But if you’re a member of MaRS, these tools are available to you absolutely free. Fair warning: some of these resources come with a hefty price tag. There are a number of resources that can help tech companies get a bead on the players already operating in international markets. Is the demand pie growing, or are you going to have to take a slice from the existing one?. Is the market growing and can your competitors’ market share be quantified?. We assist startups in evaluating their competition by helping them get answers to these fundamental questions: But chances are, there’ll be some type of competitor out there, offering an alternate or similar solution, and competing for the same share of wallet. Oftentimes, the companies we support are developing emerging technologies that don’t necessarily have a like-for-like competitor. In looking at any international market, it’s critical to evaluate the competition. Going global means getting into Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. When we think of going global, we don’t include the United States. In essence, it informs your road forward. This is key because it should be similar to the markets in which you want to scale. We help them prioritize which markets to enter, so they can identify their pilot market. “He knows that on Sunday there are going to be a lot of stories about the presidential campaign and it’s important for him to be in those stories,” former Iowa Republican Party Chairman Steve Grubbs told Radio Iowa.One of my tasks at MaRS involves helping later-stage companies explore new market opportunities to find customers. He was expected to go further on Saturday, stealing some headlines from the straw poll. They will all be competing for attention with Perry, who has been exploring getting in the presidential race for months. House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman are not participating but are on the ballot as declared candidates. 
Representatives Ron Paul and Thaddeus McCotter, businessman Herman Cain and former Senator Rick Santorum will be on the ballot. This year, four lesser-known Republicans will be looking to spring a surprise. Within weeks, losers Dan Quayle, Lamar Alexander and Elizabeth Dole had all dropped out of the race. Bush, then governor of Texas, started his road to the White House in 1999 with a straw poll victory. He ultimately won the Iowa caucuses but lost the nomination to McCain. In 2007, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s struggling campaign got a big boost from his surprise second-place finish in the straw poll. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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