'''<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;">Canada’s Business Model 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;">The competition is hosted and organized by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship’s LaunchDal Programming in collaboration with Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business. Canada’s Business Model Competition ® has been sanctioned as the national qualifier competition for the </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Business Model 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;"></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;">with the winner advancing to the 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;">. The winners of Canada’s Business Model Competition ® will share in $50,000 in cash and in-kind prizes.</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 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">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 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 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ShiftKey Labs Sandbox</span>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ShiftKey Labs Sandbox 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. 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 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IDEA Sandbox</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></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;">” 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 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; 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>
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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;">Volta Labs</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;">ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS</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;">Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF) - Innovacorp</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;">ESCF 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></span>