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== <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-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP</span></span> ==

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.4; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Norman Newman Centre 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 students, researchers and early-stage ventures to take their ideas to the next level.</span>

== <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; 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-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION</span></span></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;">Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI) </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;">manages and facilitates collaborations between companies and university researchers, commercializes research at Dalhousie University, and assists in the creation of spin-off ventures.</span>

== <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; 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-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">FACILITATING UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION</span></span></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;">ShiftKey Labs Sandbox is a workspace open to all students, located in Golberg Computer Science Building. </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;">ShiftKey Labs recently organized a hackathon event regarding sustainability called </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;">Smart Energy App Challenge.</span>

== <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; 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-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS</span></span></span> ==

<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;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 14.6667px;">Innovacorps' </span>Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF)</span></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;">assists and supports the academic community in the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities. The purpose of ESCF is to provide support for projects demonstrating readiness to advance a technology that has achieved, or is close to achieving, a prototype/proof-of-concept stage and is approaching market readiness with a possibility of attracting industry partners and/or investment. The prospect of generating a new revenue stream must also be apparent.</span>