{"id":18820,"date":"2012-10-12T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=18820"},"modified":"2012-10-11T14:51:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T19:51:01","slug":"brock%e2%80%99s-biolinc-to-host-business-networking-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/10\/brock%e2%80%99s-biolinc-to-host-business-networking-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock\u2019s BioLinc to host business networking event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18264\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cairns-sept2012.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18264\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18264  \" title=\"cairns-sept2012\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/cairns-sept2012.jpg\" alt=\"The new Cairns Family Health and Bioscience Research Complex at Brock University (September 2012)\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cairns Complex<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brock University has world-class researchers doing cutting-edge work in state-of-the art facilities. Niagara has bright, budding entrepreneurs looking to take their ideas one step further. Seasoned, savvy business people are looking for a good investment.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when you combine all three together? Innovation at its finest.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers, entrepreneurs, business people, graduates, students, and others will mix and match at BioLinc&#8217;s first networking event, BioLinc Up, to be held at Brock University&#8217;s Cairns Complex on Tuesday, Oct. 16 from 5 to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BioLinc Up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/contact-organizer?eid=4504057758\" target=\"_blank\">The BioLinc Up evening<\/a> includes a brief presentation by an official from the <a title=\"NSERC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/index_eng.asp\" target=\"_blank\">National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event will be held at the ScotiaBank BioLinc Atrium on the ground floor of the Cairns Complex.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BioLinc\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/biolinc\" target=\"_blank\">Brock University&#8217;s BioLinc<\/a> helps innovators to commercialize their research breakthroughs by providing a wide array of resources and services. These include:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022      collaboration opportunities with Brock&#8217;s research and development team, other tenants and students, including co-op\/interns and MBA student consulting services<br \/>\n\u2022      direct business assistance, counselling and training through Brock&#8217;s Faculty of Business, nGen and the Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce<br \/>\n\u2022      office and lab space with flexible service agreements, including shared use of office equipment.<\/p>\n<p>BioLinc aims to deliver great economic benefits for Niagara through job creation in our community, leading to the long-term prosperity of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Brock University&#8217;s bioscience business incubator, or BioLinc, is one of two business incubators that fall under <a title=\"Innovate Niagara\" href=\"http:\/\/www.innovateniagara.com\" target=\"_blank\">Innovate Niagara, a group of key Niagara institutions<\/a> that gather community resources in one place to create a focused approach to assisting business development.<\/p>\n<p>The other business incubator is <a title=\"Generator at One\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegeneratoratone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Generator at One<\/a>, which focuses on interactive digital media. It offers the most robust, convenient and cost-effective digital studio to customers in Canada and the Eastern United States.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on BioLinc Up or BioLinc, or to register, contact, Dan Lynch, BioLinc manager, at 416-897-4627 or <a href=\"mailto:dlynch2@brocku.ca\">dlynch2@brocku.ca.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University has world-class researchers doing cutting-edge work in state-of-the art facilities. Niagara has bright, budding entrepreneurs looking to take their ideas one step further. Seasoned, savvy business people are looking for a good investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":18264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[592,212,305,593],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18828,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions\/18828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}