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<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Dalhousie University's I&E ecosystems </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.4; 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 style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; line-height: 20.5333347320557px; white-space: pre-wrap;">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: 14.6666669845581px; 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; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; line-height: 20.5333347320557px; white-space: pre-wrap;">entrepreneurship and innovation as one of 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="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666669845581px; line-height: 20.2399997711182px; white-space: pre-wrap;">project called Innovation Hub (IDEA Building) which is a multipurpose building on Sexton Campus that would serve as a hub for innovation on Sexton Campus. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667003631592px; line-height: 20.5333805084229px; white-space: pre-wrap;">E-corps 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 style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667003631592px; line-height: 20.5333805084229px; white-space: pre-wrap;">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="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> ==
