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== <span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIPLaunch Dal's $100,000 Competition is qualifier competition for students to gain entrance to LaunchPad Accelerator.</span></span></span> ==

<br/><span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-familymargin: Arial0px; colorpadding: rgb(0, 0, 0)0px; verticalline-alignheight: baseline1.4; whitefont-spacesize: pre-wrap14.6667px; backgroundfont-colorfamily: transparentArial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontvertical-familyalign: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667pxbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Norman Newman Centre LaunchPad Accelerator is an 8-week summer program for Entrepreneurship (NNCE) serves as the heart of entrepreneurial endeavor and innovation at Dalhousie University. Its leading initiative, LaunchDal™, provides a series of credit and noncredit programs to help studentsstudent startups with $10, researchers and early-stage ventures 000 in seed funding to take elevate their ideas idea to the next level.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-familymargin: Arial0px; colorpadding: rgb(0, 0, 0)0px; verticalline-alignheight: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent1.4;">'''<span idstyle="docsmargin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="height: 1.4; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">LAUNCHDAL™ Programming</span></span>'''</span>E-corps is a program consisting of a series of workshops based on the Lean LaunchPad approach using the Business Model Canvas developed by Alexander Osterwalder. This is a team-based training program (at least two members from each organization or research project), where participants work collaboratively to test their hypothesis related to the commercialization potential of their product. Workshops embrace both Design Thinking and Lean LaunchPad approaches to Customer Discovery and Customer Development using a hands-on method for participant teams.</span></span>

<span style="font-sizemargin: 0px; padding:large0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28line-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-familyheight: Arial1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-alignfamily: baselineArial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Entrepreneurial Skills Program (ESP) Certificate </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Starting Lean course is focused on Lean methodology a post-secondary program that facilitates the development, growth and provides success of student teams with funding -run business ventures. ESP is designed to add to skills learned in the classroom through extracurricular, individualized, and experiential learning. The program culminates in the development of a personal portfolio that illustrates a student’s entrepreneurial capabilities. Upon successful completion of $1ESP,500 to build their minimal viable productstudents are accredited and receive a certificate indicating venture readiness.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:large;">= '''<span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-familymargin: Arial0px; colorpadding: rgb(0, 0, 0)0px; verticalline-alignheight: baseline1.4; whitefont-spacesize: pre-wrap14.6667px; backgroundfont-colorfamily: transparentArial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontvertical-familyalign: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667pxbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Innovation course highlights the frameworks and best practices of design thinking and pushes students toward building prototypes by offering $1,000 in funding.</span></span>Canada’s Business Model Competition</span></span>''' ==

<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The competition is hosted and&nbsp;organized by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship’s LaunchDal Programming in collaboration with&nbsp;Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business. Canada’s Business Model Competition&nbsp;®&nbsp;has been sanctioned as&nbsp;the national qualifier competition for the&nbsp;</span></span id><span style="docsmargin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-internalheight: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-guidfamily: Arial; font-5ed27d71size: 14.6667px; white-680espace: pre-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cbwrap;">International Business Model&nbsp;Competition (IBMC) </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Launch Dal's $100,000 Competition is qualifier competition for students to gain entrance with the winner advancing to LaunchPad Accelerator.the IBMC</span></span></span></spanstyle="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">. The winners of Canada’s Business Model Competition&nbsp;®&nbsp;will share $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.</span>

<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Collider (Innovation Space)</span></span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-sizemargin: 0px; padding: 14.6666666666667px0px; fontline-familyheight: Arial1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-family: Arial; font-alignsize: baseline14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">LaunchPad Accelerator is an 8-week summer program a space for student startups with $10LAUNCHDAL’s programming: courses, programs, events,000 competitions and more. However the space will also be available to students while not in seed funding to elevate their idea to use by the next levelNNCE.</span></span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Dalhousie University offers a Major in Entrepreneurship and Innovation</span></span><span idstyle="docsmargin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-internalheight: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-guidfamily: Arial; font-5ed27d71size: 14.6667px; white-680espace: pre-9f28wrap; background-0ff0-9917041644cbcolor: transparent;">for the Faculty of Management and Commerce Programs at the undergraduate level.&nbsp;In addition to the Starting Lean and Innovation courses, </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dalhousie University offers two for-credit courses regarding entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation COMM 3307, and Managing the Venturing Process (MGMT 4901/COMM 4301). An </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Entrepreneurial Work Term is offered to commerce students who have their own business venture or would like to work on their own idea to fulfill their co-op or internship requirements. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-family: Arial; font-alignsize: baseline14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">EIn addition, NNCE co-corps is a program consisting of hosts a series of workshops based on the Lean LaunchPad approach using the Business Model Canvas developed by Alexander Osterwalder. This is a team-based training programentrepreneurial events including Pitch 101, Startup Canada Tour, Next 36, (at least two members from each organization or research project) where participants work collaboratively to test their hypothesis related to the commercialization potential of their product. Workshops embrace both Design Thinking and Lean LaunchPad approaches to Customer Discovery and Customer Development using a hands-on method for participant teamsDemo Camp.</span></spanstyle="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Demo Camp is an event that showcases local startups solely through product demos rather than traditional presentations. </span></spanstyle="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Dalhousie University also has an official partnership with Next 36. &nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb">'''<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-alignmargin: baseline0px; white-spacepadding: pre-wrap0px; backgroundline-color: transparent;"><span style="colorheight: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 141.6666669845581px; white-space: pre-wrap4;">The Entrepreneurial Skills Program (ESP) Certificate </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">is a post-secondary program that facilitates the development, growth Entrepreneurial Societies and success of studentStudent-run business ventures. ESP is designed to add to skills learned in the classroom through extracurricular, individualized, and experiential learning. The program culminates in the development of a personal portfolio that illustrates a student’s entrepreneurial capabilities. Upon successful completion of ESP, students are accredited and receive a certificate indicating venture readinessLed Organizations on Campus.</span></span></span></span>''' ==

<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-alignmargin: baseline0px; white-spacepadding: pre-wrap0px; backgroundline-colorheight: transparent1.4;">'''<span idstyle="docsmargin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="height: 1.4; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Canada’s Business Model Competition</span></span>'''</span>The Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) strives to build inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus by exposing students in all faculties to resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons and connecting them with the local startup community.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-alignmargin: baseline0px; white-spacepadding: pre-wrap0px; backgroundline-colorheight: transparent;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-size: 141.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent4;">The competition is hosted and&nbsp;organized by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship’s LaunchDal Programming in collaboration with&nbsp;Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business. Canada’s Business Model Competition&nbsp;®&nbsp;has been sanctioned as&nbsp;the national qualifier competition for the&nbsp;</span></span><span style="colormargin: rgb(0, 0, 0)0px; font-familypadding: Arial0px; fontline-sizeheight: 141.6666669845581px; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Business Model&nbsp4;Competition (IBMC) </span><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Enactus is a student society focusing on improving the community through entrepreneurial action. Enactus is very focused on getting the students envolved with innovation and entrepreneurship ideas that benefit the winner advancing to the IBMC</span><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0larger local, 0national, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">or international community. The winners of Canada’s Business Model Competition&nbsp;®&nbsp;will share $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Entrepreneurs and Law Association of Dalhousie S</span></span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-sizemargin: 0px; padding: 14.6666666666667px0px; fontline-familyheight: Arial1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-family: Arial; font-alignsize: baseline14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Collider (Innovation Space)</span>ociety hosts law clinics to answer legal questions in relation to starting a business. Issues such as corporate structures, taxation, intellectual property, contracts, shareholder agreements and </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">is privacy law are discussed in a space for LAUNCHDAL’s programming: courses, programs, events, competitions and moreround-table format. However the space will also be available to students while not in use by the NNCE.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb">'''<span style="font-familymargin: Arial0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-colorpadding: transparent0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guidline-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-sizeheight: 141.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap4; background-color: transparent;">Dalhousie University offers a Major in Entrepreneurship and Innovation</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">for the Faculty of Management and Commerce Programs at the undergraduate level.&nbsp;In addition to the Starting Lean Events and Innovation courses, Activities Around Campus</span><span style''' ="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dalhousie University offers two for-credit courses regarding entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation COMM 3307, and Managing the Venturing Process (MGMT 4901/COMM 4301). An </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Entrepreneurial Work Term is offered to commerce students who have their own business venture or would like to work on their own idea to fulfill their co-op or internship requirements. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In addition, NNCE co-hosts a series of entrepreneurial events including Pitch 101, Startup Canada Tour, Next 36, and Demo Camp. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Demo Camp is an event that showcases local startups solely through product demos rather than traditional presentations. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Dalhousie University also has an official partnership with Next 36. &nbsp;</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:large;"><span idcolor="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb#000000"><span styleface="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-familysize: Arial14.6667px; fontline-sizeheight: 1420.6666666666667px5334px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Entrepreneurial societies Startup weekend is a fantastic event happening around campus twice a year which gets students from different disciplines working together on bright new ideas. It is led by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship and managed by faculty and student-led organizations on campusvolunteers with the centre.</span>'''</span></span></spanfont>

<span style="font-size:large;"><span idcolor="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb#000000"><span styleface="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; fontline-familyheight: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline20.5334px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) strives to build inclusive innovation Hackamarine is a student led hackathon focused on marine and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus by exposing oceanography which allows allows students in all faculties to resources work on their ideas and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons bring them to life. The event has much suport from the oceanography department and connecting them with the local startup communityfaculty of management which got a lot of students involved and interacting together to work on their ideas.</span></span></span></span></spanfont>

<span style="font-size:large;"><span idFaculty Innovation & Entrepreneurship ="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Enactus is a student society focusing on improving the community through entrepreneurial action.</span></span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-sizecolor:large#000000;"><span idstyle="docsfont-internalfamily: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-guidserif; font-5ed27d71size: 14px; line-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cbheight: 18px;">Dalhousie University's I&E ecosystems&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Arial; colorfont-size: rgb(0, 0, 0)14.6666666666667px; verticalline-alignheight: baseline1.4; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">is still in its growing stage. There have been several champions working on developing the ecosystem, but only very recently has the government started to put more pressure on universities to promote entrepreneurship. There is a group of local political, academic and business leaders called oneNS Coalition. The mandate of oneNS Coalition is to instill further growth in the region and a 10 year plan for economic development and sustainability. </span><span idstyle="docsfont-internalfamily: Arial; font-guidsize: 14.6666669845581px; line-5ed27d71height: 20.5333347320557px; white-680espace: pre-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cbwrap;">Based on this initiative there was a "Now or Never Report"released by the chair of the One Nova Scotia Commision Ray Ivany. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6666669845581px; line-height: 20.5333347320557px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">One of the major topics in this report is entrepreneurship and innovation. Our president Dr. Richard Florizone is very involved with this initiative and strongly advocates </span><span style="font-family: Arial; colorfont-size: rgb(0, 0, 0)14.6666669845581px; verticalline-alignheight: baseline20.5333347320557px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Entrepreneurs entrepreneurship and Law Association innovation as one of Dalhousie S</span>the top priorities for the university. As a result from this growing interest in I&E, the Faculty of Engineering announced a </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6666669845581px; line-height: 20.2399997711182px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ociety hosts law clinics to answer legal questions in relation to starting project called Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus that would serve as a businesshub for innovation on Sexton Campus. Issues such as corporate structures, taxation, intellectual property, contracts, shareholder agreements and </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667003631592px; line-height: 20.5333805084229px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">privacy law are discussed in a roundE-table formatcorps is another great initiative by Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship to help researchers commercialize their reserch by applying lean methodology and design thinking frameworks and providing them with small seed capital to build their minimal viable products. There is also an initiative to introduce an Entrepreneurship Certificate across faculties.</span></span></span></span>

== <span style="font-sizecolor:large#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-family: Arial; colorfont-size: rgb(0, 0, 0)14.6667003631592px; verticalline-alignheight: baseline20.5333805084229px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION</span>Some faculty have been very interested in developing the I&E in the student body. For example, a new course has been started for rapid prototyping in the forth year level. It is considered a computer science credit, but is open to students of other faculties. Courses like this are constantly being developed by different faculty members all around campus. Doctor Fiona Black is also launching a program for certification in "creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship" to provide students from all faculties with the ooportunity to add entrepreneurship to their degree. The certificate name starts with the word "creativity" because it is a ver neutral word where students from all faculties can see themselves doing. It comprises of both for-credit courses and extracurricular work that students have to do in order to be accredited with the certificate. It is a greatinnitiative to allow students to achieve work a little bit outside of their field and allow them to bring their bright ideas and pursue them.</span></span> ==

<span style="colormargin: rgb(0, 0, 0)0px; font-familypadding: Arial0px; fontline-sizeheight: 141.6666669845581px4; white-space: pre-wrap;">Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI) </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">manages and facilitates collaborations between This year (2017) the Creative Desctruction Lab (CDL) from the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto, is coming to Atlantic Canada, in the form of CDL-Atlantic. The CDL is a seed-stage program, focusing on the transition phase from pre-seed to seed-stage funding, helping innovators transition from "science projects" to high-growth companies and university researchers. The program will be administered by Volta Labs CEO Jesse Rodgers, commercializes research at closely partnered with Dalhousie University, and assists in running out of the creation Rowe School of spin-off venturesBusiness.</span>

== <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size:large14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IDEA Sandbox where IDEA is "</span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="fontmargin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-familyheight: Arial1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-alignfamily: Arial; font-size: baseline14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">FACILITATING UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATIONstanding for “Innovative Design and Entrepreneurship Academy” is a collaborative initiative between Faculty of Engineering, the Rowe School of Business and NSCAD University.</span></span></span> ==

<span style="colormargin: rgb(0, 0, 0)0px; font-familypadding: Arial0px; fontline-sizeheight: 141.6666669845581px4; white-space: pre-wrap;">ShiftKey Labs Sandbox is a workspace open to all students, located in Golberg Computer Science Building. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ShiftKey Labs recently organized a hackathon event regarding sustainability called The Technology Innovation Centre, run by the local venture capital group Innovacorps, provides local startups with multipurpose space off campus. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Smart Energy App ChallengeInnovacorps organizes a biennial I3 Competition which is open to all students with early-stage startups or ideas to compete for over $900,000 in prizes across Nova Scotia.</span>

<span style="colormargin: rgb(0, 0, 0)0px; font-familypadding: Arial0px; fontline-sizeheight: 141.6666666666667px4; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IDEA Sandbox where IDEA is "</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">standing for “Innovative Design and Entrepreneurship Academy” The Collider, launched on October 2015, is a multipurpose collaborative initiative between Faculty space located on the second floor of Engineeringthe main campus library. The space is used for delivering LaunchDal programming: courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However, the Rowe School of Business space is also be available to students to collaborate with their teams on their projects, to brainstorm, and NSCAD Universityto study while not in use by the Norman Newman Centre.</span>

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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Technology Innovation Centre, run by the local venture capital group Innovacorps, provides local startups with multipurpose space off campus. </span><span styleEngaging With Regional & Local Economic Development Efforts="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovacorps organizes a biennial I3 Competition which is open to all students with early-stage startups or ideas to compete for over $900,000 in prizes across Nova Scotia.</span>

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