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By Murad Hemmadi
May 30, 2023
Sadegh Raeisi thinks he has a way to shorten the long times that patients must wait for—and in—medical-imaging machines. Foqus, his Toronto-headquartered startup, uses quantum and machine-learning algorithms to hasten scans. “We are able to make MRI faster because of our technologies,” Raeisi says. “If we cannot protect that secret sauce, we don’t have a business.”
To safeguard that proprietary recipe, Foqus is enrolled in the first cohort of a program run by Intellectual Property Ontario (IPON), a new agency set up to help commercialize more of the innovations made in the province.
Innovation economy executives and economists have long argued that…
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