This Toronto Innovation Hub Is The Anti-Apple HQ

Get the Full StoryThe MaRS Discovery District encourages collaboration between companies and sits in the middle of the city–open to the public and with its own subway stop.

Inside a gleaming glass tower in downtown Toronto, the Parametric Human Project is building a virtual human body that can be used for medical testing instead of lab animals. Down the hall, a startup called Woodland Biofuels is developing cellulosic ethanol from forestry and farm waste. Across a bridge on the other side of an atrium, the Future Design School helps educators learn how teach skills like creativity and critical thinking; two floors down, Transpod is designing a solar-powered hyperloop.Read Full Story

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