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<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.5334px; white-space: pre-wrap;">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.</span></font>

<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&nbsp;</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>