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By Eaton, Brian
Publication: Expansion Management
Date: Thursday, March 1 2007

Canada's new flagship biotech hot spot, dubbed the MaRS Discovery District, is packaging up what executives claim is North America's most concentrated cluster of biomedical research and expertise.

It doesn't hurt that MaRS was sited in the center of Toronto, braced by world-renowned teaching and research hospitals, the University of Toronto, Canada's financial core, and the Ontario provincial legislature.

MaRS houses laboratories, research institutes, biotech companies and venture capital firms, serving as a convergence innovation center dedicated to accele

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