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<span><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship (NNCE) is investing close $1 million in development of entrepreneurial skills of Dalhousie University’s students every year. Under umbrella program LaunchDal™ NNCE provides series of credit and noncredit programs to help students, researchers and early stage ventures to take their ideas to the next level.</span>

<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;">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>[http://www.businessmodelcompetition.com</ span><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); textfont-decorationfamily: underlineArial; verticalfont-alignsize: baseline14.6666669845581px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">International Business Model &nbsp;Competition(IBMC)</span>]<span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">&nbsp;with the winner advancing to the International Business Model&nbsp;&nbsp;Competition&nbsp;(other contenders may still apply through the general application found on the&nbsp;</span>[http://www.businessmodelcompetition.com/apply---2014.html <span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">with the winner advancing to the IBMC Apply</span>]<span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">&nbsp;page). The winners of Canada’s Business Model Competition&nbsp;®&nbsp;will share in $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes&nbsp;generously provided by our partner&nbsp;</span>[http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_CA/ca/index.htm <span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Deloitte Canada</span>]<span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">.</span></span>   <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;">Collider (Innovation Space)</span></span>   <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;">Collider is a space for LAUNCHDAL’s programming; courses, programs, events, competitions and more. However the space will also be available to students while not in use by the NNCE.</span></span>   <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;">Entrepreneurial Work Term</span></span>

<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;">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>   <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;">Major in Entrepreneurship and Innovation</span></span>   <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;">Major in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is offered by Faculty of Management to Commerce and Management students in their undergraduate degree.</span></span>   <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;">In addition NNCE co-host series of entrepreneurial events including Pitch 101, Startup Canada Tour, Next 36, Demo Camp</span></span>   <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;">Demo Camp is an event that showcases local startups solely through product demos not powerpoint presentations.</span></span>   <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;">Dalhousie University has an official partnership with Next 36. &nbsp;</span></span>   <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;">Additional for credit courses regarding entrepreneurship are New Venture Creation COMM 3307, and Managing the Venturing Process (MGMT 4901/COMM 4301).</span></span>   <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;">Entrepreneurial societies and student-led organizations on campus.</span></span>   <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;">Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society</span></span>   <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;">The Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society 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 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</span></span>'''

<span idstyle="docscolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-internalfamily: Arial; font-guidsize: 14.6666669845581px; white-5ed27d71space: pre-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cbwrap;">Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI) </span><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-family: Arial; font-alignsize: baseline14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Entrepreneurs manages and Law Association facilitates collaborations between companies and university researchers, commercializes research at Dalhousie University, and assists in the creation of Dalhousie</span>spin-off ventures.</span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-alignfamily: baselineArial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The society hosts law clinics ShiftKey Labs Sandbox offers a broad mix of resources, supports, and opportunities for individuals wishing to answer legal questions in relation experiment with and develop start-up ideas containing a technical component. We provide free, physical space to starting collaborate on ideas within your own team and learn from other lab resident teams. We also organize a business. Issues such as corporate structuresvariety of interesting workshops and events where participants can develop skills, taxmeet new people, intellectual propertygain practical experience, contractsbe inspired, shareholder agreements andultimately, explore what is involved in creating a technology-related start-up in causal, risk-free environment. ShiftKey Labs recently organized an event </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smart Energy App Challenge hackathon where teams were competing</span>

<span idstyle="docscolor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-internalfamily: Arial; font-guidsize: 14.6666666666667px; white-5ed27d71space: pre-680ewrap; background-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cbcolor: transparent;">IDEA Sandbox</span><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-family: Arial; font-alignsize: baseline14.6666669845581px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">privacy law are discussed in round table format.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-family: Arial; font-alignsize: baseline14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION</span>Cultiv8 brings together Dalhousie and Acadia, two universities with campuses connected to rural communities, each with a focus on supporting and growing the agricultural economy of Nova Scotia. The sandbox will be established upon a strong base of successful existing programming and entrepreneurial resources at both universities. The sandbox recently hired its first coordinator, Jolene MacEachern, who be taking a leave of absence from her current position with the Department of Extended Learning on the Agricultural Campus to support the sandbox’s launch. It has also identified its facilitation space, which will be located in the MacRae Library.</span>

<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;">Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI)</span></span>   <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;">ILI 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>   <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;">FACILITATING UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION</span></span>   <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;">ShiftKey Sandbox</span></span>   <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;">ShiftKey Labs offers a broad mix of resources, supports, and opportunities for individuals wishing to experiment with and develop start-up ideas containing a technical component. We provide free, physical space to collaborate on ideas within your own team and learn from other lab resident teams. We also organize a variety of interesting workshops and events where participants can develop skills, meet new people, gain practical experience, be inspired, and ultimately, explore what is involved in creating a technology-related start-up in causal, risk-free environment.</span></span>   <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;">IDEA Sandbox</span></span>   <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;">IDEA” standing for “Innovative Design and Entrepreneurship Academy” — a collaboration between Dal’s Faculty of Engineering, it's Rowe School of Business and NSCAD University.</span></span>   <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;">Sandbox Hackathon (Smart Energy App Challenge)</span></span>   <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;">The Nova Scotia Agricultural Sandbox - Cultiv8</span></span>   <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;">Cultiv8 brings together Dalhousie and Acadia, two universities with campuses connected to rural communities, each with a focus on supporting and growing the agricultural economy of Nova Scotia. The sandbox will be established upon a strong base of successful existing programming and entrepreneurial resources at both universities. The sandbox recently hired its first coordinator, Jolene MacEachern, who be taking a leave of absence from her current position with the Department of Extended Learning on the Agricultural Campus to support the sandbox’s launch. It has also identified its facilitation space, which will be located in the MacRae Library.</span></span>   <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;">Cultiv8 in collaboration with NNCE organized first of its kind Startup Weekend in Truro focusing on agriculture and food.</span></span>   <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;">Volta Labs</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-alignfamily: baselineArial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Halifax Makerspace</span>Innovacorp Incubator - Technology Innovation Centre</span>

  <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;">Brilliant Labs</span></span>   <span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-size: 14Innovacorps biennial I3 Competition is open to all students with early stage startups or ideas to compete for over 900k in prizes across Nova Scotia.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovacorp Incubator - Technology Innovation Centre</span></span>

<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;">I3 Competition</span></span>   <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;">Innovacorps biennial I3 Competition is open to all students with early stage startups or ideas to compete for over 900k in prizes across Nova Scotia.</span></span>   <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;">Research Centers</span></span>