Alacrity Foundation Director and Wesley Clover SVP Owen Mathews and UVic VP Research Howard Brunt formalize broad agreement for UVic’s Entrepreneurial Engineering Master’s Program, while interim program Director Ted Darcie looks on contentedly.
Career academics are lagging behind, unconcerned with commercial opportunities, resulting in a plethora of research that doesn’t see the light of day. Big investors gave out $4 billion to research in 2007, but saw little to no progress come of it. The solution: produce engineers with business sense. This article outlines how the Entrepreneurship@UVic program does just this, backed mainly by Wesley Clover, UVic and MITACS, and the Governments of Canada and BC.
UVic Attempts to Engineer Entrepreneurship.