Janssen has teamed up with Johnson & Johnson, University of Toronto, Government of Ontario and MaRS Discovery District to bring the JLabs incubator to Canada.
Janssen, a subsidiary of US-based pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson, is set to launch a branch of its JLabs incubator programme in Toronto, Canada.
JLabs@Toronto is the result of an agreement between Janssen; Johnson & Johnson Innovation, the corporate venturing arm of Johnson & Johnson; non-profit company MaRS Discovery District, which commercialises publicly funded research; University of Toronto and Government of Ontario.
The incubator will host 50 startups from spring 2016 in a 40,000 square foot facility located at MaRS.…