Toronto is nearing the “tipping point” in its quest to become a leading hub for health innovation – a development that promises to help modernize an aging Canadian health-care system while giving the broader economy a shot in the arm.
Zayna Khayat, an expert in health-care innovation and adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, says the only thing stopping the city from being mentioned alongside places like Boston, New York and San Francisco is a “critical mass” of startups and deep-pocketed investors.
“We have it in R&D but we don’t yet have it when it comes to capital and serial entrepreneurs – but we’re really close,” says Khayat, who is also a future strategist at home-care provider Saint Elizabeth Health Care, a faculty member at the Silicon Valley-based think tank Singularity University, and was formerly the senior adviser for health system innovation at MaRS.
Full article at: U of T News