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Building Sustainable Innovation Ecosystem for Community Prosperity

The WGTA Convergence Centre in Mississauga integrates programs to enhance business, institutional, and community interests, fostering innovation and investment for competitive advantages in the market and quality of life. Learn how ideas can bring value, emphasizing the importance of culture and capacity. Explore the Mississauga Technology Business Accelerator, Smart Growth initiatives, and Healthy City Stewardship. Visit wgta.hal.ca for more information.

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Building Sustainable Innovation Ecosystem for Community Prosperity

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  1. The Goal To build an integrated series of programs that bridge business, institutional and community interests, that foster entrepreneurial and commercial investment leading to a competitive advantage in the marketplace and a competitive advantage in terms of quality of life for the community.

  2. HOW CAN THE VALUE OF IDEAS BE CAPTURED • NEED CULTURE • NEED CAPACITY

  3. COMMERCIAL The WGTA Convergence Centre MISSISSAUGA TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS ACCELERATOR SMART GROWTH – RESEARCH AND PEOPLE MISSISSAUGA HEALTHY CITY STEWARDSHIP INITIATIVE INSTITUTIONAL http://wgta.hal.ca SOCIETAL

  4. The WGTA Convergence Centre: • Mississauga Technology BusinessAccelerator (MTBA) • The MTBA is a not-for-profit organization whose • mandate is to: • Assist technology companies to accelerate their growth, and greatly improve their speed of development and chances for long-term success • Serve as the focus for networking and outreach activities that support commercialization • Smart Growth - Research and People • Partnering and alignment for development of scientific • research and academic programming by academic • (university and college) and community hospitals; e.g. • new UofT medical academy, joint funding proposals • for research and commercialization services.

  5. The WGTA Convergence Centre: Healthy City Stewardship CentreBased on the Mississauga-World Health Organization “Healthy City” program, and will operate to assist in further development of local social, educational, recreational and employment/volunteer opportunities and services (recruitment, retention, international exposure).

  6. Four Pillars Of Economic Development That Can Serve All Communities: • Talent • Technology • Capital • Entrepreneurship

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