Innovation that leads to advances in life sciences requires a collaborative ecosystem of partners – hospitals, research centres, universities, technology incubators, start-ups, scientists and multinationals – and every day they’re collaborating in Ontario, Canada.
Operate among innovation leaders engaged in every kind of life sciences activity. Ontario’s broad and innovative life sciences sector includes about 1,900 firms.
Ontario ranks seventh in North America in terms of life sciences employment and eighth by the number of life sciences establishments, also in North America. We are home to a remarkable cluster of top-ranked institutions, researchers, developers and manufacturers.
Multinational companies include:
Homegrown companies include:
You need a dependable source of highly skilled innovation talent to grow and compete. We have the talent you need.
Exceptional talent drives success in the highly competitive life sciences market, but it’s not always easy to find the scientific and business talent you need to innovate, commercialize and succeed on a global scale. Hoffman-La Roche kept this in mind as it was choosing a site for a global pharmaceutical development centre. In addition to a talent pool of around 60,000 life sciences workers, Ontario boasts a high concentration of business specialists with over 43,000 students graduated from business related programs in 2013.
Two of the top 10 international business schools are in Ontario.
I think the biggest asset Ontario provides to companies like us is its deep talent pool. We have been very impressed with the quality of the people we have hired locally for the site and I think this reflects the fact that the province does wonderful research. It produces great scientists, and sometimes you need to look locally before you look globally
Ronnie Miller,President & CEO, Roche Canada
Four of the top ten Canadian research hospitals can be found in Ontario, attracting over $2.6 billion in sponsored research income.
Ontario is a place where today’s innovative ideas are fast becoming tomorrow’s world-renowned scientific, medical and technological breakthroughs, with the potential to improve millions of lives globally.
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