Professor Hugh Gunz at site of future Innovation Complex

Building the Future

Christine Ward

It’s a scene straight out of the CBC television series Dragons’ Den: Fourteen senior industry executives watch expectantly while Geoff Reid and his teammates pitch their idea — a Bluetooth-equipped glucose metre that relays blood glucose results to a smartphone using a mobile app. In this version, though, the aspiring entrepreneurs aren’t vying for money; just the chance to be taken seriously and help the business world do things a little differently.

And maybe, quips Reid, to get a good grade.

Read the full story in the Fall 2013 issue of the U of T Mississauga Magazine...