by Amber Hancock
Companies are brought to the BioCenter by venture capitalists or by serial entrepreneurs. Financing of US$1.4 billion has been raised in the past four years.
Presenters Adrian Brozell, founder of zNano, and Rich Jorgensen, vice-president of business development from Single Cell Technology, discussed how helpful the BioCenter was in supporting their research and the incubation of their products.
We then visited the IBM Almaden Research Center and watched presentations on the future of smartphone technologies. IBM's focus on analytics underlined the importance of today's managers studying mathematics and statistics. The “pièce de resistance” was a talk surrounding the building of a supercomputer based on a study and mapping of the brain's cognitive function.
An evening dinner reception with Valley area University of Ottawa and Telfer School alumni completed the day. A bit of networking and cheerful thoughts were shared on life in the valley.
It seems once you move away, you never stop wondering how the heck the Sens are doing.
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This article is the second in a series this week on the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management Executive MBA class trip to Silicon Valley. Maryam Awan, Amber Hancock, Jose Lazo and Greg Matthews are students sharing their experiences and lessons learned.
