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<div>Dalhousie University is internationally known as one of North America’s most welcoming universities. [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/history-tradition.html Founded in 1818], Dalhousie is one of Canada’s oldest universities, attracting more than 18,200 students from around the world. Located on [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/dal-and-the-community/about-dal-communities.html Canada’s East Coast], the university blends [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/academic-excellence.html world-class academic programs] with [http://www.dal.ca/about-dal/world-class-research.html leading-edge research]. </div>

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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.

Hackamarine is a student led hackathon focused on marine and oceanography which allows allows students to work on their ideas and bring them to life. The event has much suport from the oceanography department and the faculty of management which got a lot of students involved and interacting together to work on their ideas.

== FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ==

Dalhousie University's I&E ecosystems 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. Based on this initiative there was a "Now or Never Report" released by the chair of the One Nova Scotia Commision Ray Ivany. 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 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 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. 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.

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.

== UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION ==

Industry Liaison and Innovation (ILI) manages and facilitates collaborations between companies and university researchers, commercializes research at Dalhousie University, and assists in the creation of spin-off ventures.

This year (2017) the Creative Desctruction Lab (CDL) from the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto, is coming to Atlantic Canada, in the form of CDL-Atlantic. The CDL is a seed-stage program, focusing on the transition phase from pre-seed to seed-stage funding, helping innovators transition from "science projects" to high-growth companies. The program will be administered by Volta Labs CEO Jesse Rodgers, closely partnered with Dalhousie University and running out of the Rowe School of Business.

== FACILITATING UNIVERSITY - INDUSTRY COLLABORATION ==

ShiftKey Labs Sandbox is a workspace open to all students, located in Golberg Computer Science Building. ShiftKey Labs recently organized a hackathon event regarding sustainability called Smart Energy App Challenge.

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),NRC Institute for Marine Biology,Aquatron Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography.

== ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS ==

Innovacorps' Early Stage Commercialization Fund (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.

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