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== <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-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">== STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP </span></span></span> ==
<br/><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-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; 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></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-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;">LAUNCHDAL™ Programming</span></span>'''</span></span></span>
<br/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-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship (NNCE) serves as the heart of entrepreneurial endeavor Starting Lean course is focused on Lean methodology and innovation at Dalhousie University. Its leading initiative, LaunchDal™, provides a series student teams with funding of credit and noncredit programs to help students$1, researchers and early-stage ventures 500 to take build their ideas to the next levelminimal viable product.</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); fontvertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-familycolor: Arialtransparent; "><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 Starting Lean course is focused on Lean methodology and provides student teams with funding of Launch Dal's $1100,500 000 Competition is qualifier competition for students to gain entrance to build their minimal viable productLaunchPad Accelerator.</span></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); fontvertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-familycolor: Arialtransparent; "><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 Innovation course highlights the frameworks and best practices of design thinking and pushes students toward building prototypes by offering LaunchPad Accelerator is an 8-week summer program for student startups with $110,000 in seed fundingto elevate their idea to the next level.</span></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-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;">Launch Dal's $100E-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,000 Competition is qualifier competition for students (at least two members from each organization or research project) where participants work collaboratively to gain entrance test their hypothesis related to the commercialization potential of their product. Workshops embrace both Design Thinking and Lean LaunchPad Acceleratorapproaches to Customer Discovery and Customer Development using a hands-on method for participant teams.</span></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-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px6666669845581px; fontwhite-familyspace: Arialpre-wrap; ">The Entrepreneurial Skills Program (ESP) Certificate </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-family: Arial; font-alignsize: baseline14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">LaunchPad Accelerator is an 8a post-week summer secondary program for that facilitates the development, growth and success of student startups with $10-run business ventures. ESP is designed to add to skills learned in the classroom through extracurricular, individualized,000 and experiential learning. The program culminates in seed funding to elevate their idea to the next leveldevelopment 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 readiness.</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-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;">E-corps is a program consisting of a series of workshops based on the Lean LaunchPad approach using the Canada’s 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.Competition</span></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); fontvertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-familycolor: Arialtransparent; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-680e-9f28-0ff0-9917041644cb"><span style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Entrepreneurial Skills Program (ESP) Certificate 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;">is a post-secondary program that facilitates with the winner advancing to the development, growth and success of studentIBMC</span><span style="font-run business venturessize: 14. ESP is designed to add to skills learned in the classroom through extracurricular6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, individualized0, and experiential learning0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">. The program culminates in the development winners of a personal portfolio that illustrates a student’s entrepreneurial capabilities. Upon successful completion of ESPCanada’s Business Model Competition ® will share $50, students are accredited 000 in cash and receive a certificate indicating venture readinessin-kind prizes.</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-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;">The competition is hosted Dalhousie University offers a Major in Entrepreneurship and Innovation</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);organized by the Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship’s LaunchDal Programming in collaboration with font-family: Arial;Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Businessfont-size: 14. Canada’s Business Model Competition 6666666666667px;® white-space: pre-wrap;has been sanctioned as background-color: transparent;">for the national qualifier competition for Faculty of Management and Commerce Programs at theundergraduate level. </span>In addition to the Starting Lean and Innovation courses, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; white-space: pre-wrap;">International Business Model Competition Dalhousie University offers two for-credit courses regarding entrepreneurship: New Venture Creation COMM 3307, and Managing the Venturing Process (IBMCMGMT 4901/COMM 4301) . An </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; fontwhite-space: pre-wrap; background-familycolor: Arialtransparent; ">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); verticalfont-family: Arial; font-alignsize: baseline14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">with the winner advancing to the IBMCIn 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; fontwhite-space: pre-wrap; background-familycolor: Arialtransparent; ">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); verticalfont-family: Arial; font-alignsize: baseline14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Dalhousie University also has an official partnership with Next 36. The winners of Canada’s Business Model Competition ® 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"><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 Entrepreneurial societies and more. However the space will also be available to students while not in use by the NNCEstudent-led 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-size: 14.6666666666667px; 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 styleid="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontdocs-internal-guid-family: Arial; font5ed27d71-size: 14.6666666666667px; white680e-space: pre9f28-wrap; background0ff0-color: transparent;9917041644cb">for the Faculty of Management and Commerce Programs at the undergraduate level. In addition to the Starting Lean and Innovation courses, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px6666666666667px; whitefont-spacefamily: pre-wrapArial;">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); fontvertical-familyalign: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667pxbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Entrepreneurial Work Term is offered The Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society (D.E.S.) strives to commerce build inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus by exposing students who have their own business venture or would like in all faculties 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 36resources and funding opportunities, organizing hackathons and Demo Campconnecting them with the local startup community. </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. </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-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;">The Entrepreneurs and Law Association of Dalhousie Entrepreneurship Society S</span></span><span style="color: rgb(D0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.E.S.) strives 6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ociety hosts law clinics to build inclusive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem on the Dalhousie University campus by exposing students answer legal questions in all faculties relation to resources starting a business. Issues such as corporate structures, taxation, intellectual property, contracts, shareholder agreements and funding opportunities</span><span style="color: rgb(0, organizing hackathons and connecting them with the local startup community0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">privacy law are discussed in a round-table format.</span></span></span></span>
== <span style="font-size:large;"><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.UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION</span></span></span>==
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI) </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; 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="font-size:large;">'''<span id="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;">== FACILITATING UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION ==</span></span>'''</span>==
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; 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: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ShiftKey Labs recently organized a hackathon event regarding sustainability called </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smart Energy App Challenge.</span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-5ed27d71-6831-16c1-35a7-f2808941c220"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC), Brain Repair Centre (QEII Health Sciences Centre), Centre for Comparative Genomics & Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Institute for Research in Materials, Canadian Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Centre for Marine Vessel Development and Research, Centre for Water Resources Studies (CWRS), Minerals Engineering Centre (MEC), Centre for Innovation in Infrastructure, Vehicle Safety Research Team (VSRT), Atlantic Region Magnetic Resonance Centre, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research Resource (NMR3),</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;">NRC Institute for Marine Biology,</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Aquatron Laboratory, </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Bedford Institute of Oceanography.</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-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"><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 style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">Innovacorps' </span>Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF)</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; 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>
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