Business View Magazine | March 2020

353 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 PETERBOROUGH, ONTAR IO we have so many startups and long-standing experts in the field, we pool them together in an advisory committee concept to say where we should be going and how we should be arming those companies to go with the supply chain, here.” Yuill, by the way, is the former President and CEO of the Greater Peterborough Innovation Cluster (GPIC), which is the region’s incubation and innovation nexus, located in a building in downtown Peterborough called VentureNorth. Since opening in 2016, VentureNorth has emerged as one of the city’s most important buildings—“spaces” is perhaps a better word to describe it—symbolizing Peterborough’s path as an innovative, entrepreneurial destination which encourages startups and existing businesses to grow and thrive. VentureNorth creates an ecosystem where entrepreneurs and business people can connect and work alongside each other in open concept spaces. “The business community in Peterborough is very supportive of Downtown Little Lake Industrial Park