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.
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