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.
Author: Adam Darcie
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Article in the BC Business Magazine
UVic Attempts to Engineer Entrepreneurship.
Financial support for the Engineering Entrepreneurship@UVic program officially provided by the Governments of Canada and British Columbia, the Alacrity Foundation, the University of British Columbia, and the MITACS Accelerate Program. Dr. Thomas Darcie explains his philosophy for starting the program, and his “pull versus push model”.
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UVic Communications Media Release
Sponsors announced their financial support for the Engineering Entrepreneurship@UVic program. Read the article.
Engineering Entrepreneurship@UVic students drove to Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton during the week of March 22, 2010 to let Engineering students know about the opportunity to join our group at UVic.
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Pilot Launched
We are pleased to announce that as of September 2009 we have launched our pilot of Engineering Entrepreneurship@UVic and we have four very strong students taking on this challenge.
Pictures of the launch party are shown below:
