The 20 Most Innovative Companies in B.C. 2010
The Top 20 Innovators in B.C. 2010. Sometimes it's the big idea that infiltrates the tiny reaches of our quotidian lifes. And sometimes it's the small idea that has a big impact. In this year's survey of innovation in B.C., we look at 20 organizations, large and small, from a wide variety of fields, that are shaking up their industries, British Columbia, and the world. (Glimpse the future, too, with B.C.'s Most Innovative Companies of 2011.)
Westbank Projects
Using Woodward's to reimagine downtown Vancouver.
Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates
Building B.C.'s most impressive machines.
Vision Critical
Serving the research needs of many of the world’s top brands.
Teradici Corp.
Solving problems in the computer industry.
Invoke Media / HootSuite
Mining gold from the Twittersphere.
BuildDirect Technologies
Renovating the building-materials supply chain.
Westport Innovations
Making heavy-truck engines run on natural gas, not diesel.
Ritchie Bros.
Turning local markets for heavy equipment into worldwide ones.
Tantalus Systems
Constructing the power grid of the future.
Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addictions
Helping those in need.
NowPublic
Reshaping the way we consume media.
Renewal Partners
Bringing a social mission to venture capitalism.
Day4 Energy
Driving down the cost of the kilowatt-hour.
Tekmira Pharmaceuticals
Smacking down disease-forming proteins.
Lululemon Athletica
Empowering managers to make independent decisions.
Elastic Path Software
Basing e-commerce on open-source platforms.
Nurse Next Door
Applying "lean thinking" philosophy to health care.
Light-Based Technologies
Revolutionizing the pulse-width-modulation system.
Coastal Contacts
Taking out the optical middleman, using the Internet.
Quic Financial Technologies
Helping financial institutions calculate investment risk.
The Innovators Experts Panel
Who chose this year's innovators, and why? Say hello to our judges.
The 20 Most Innovative Companies in B.C. 2011
Twenty organizations shaping the province with the power of one good idea.
Video from the 2010 Innovation Gala
B.C.'s top leaders define innovation.
Video: Live from the 2011 Innovators Gala
Awards, sights and sounds, plus thoughtful interviews with winners.
