Dobson Cup 2016 Winners Announced
Dear 2016 海角社区 Dobson Cup Participants, Judge-Mentors, and Supporters,听
We're excited to announce the听winners of the 2016 海角社区 Dobson Cup!
Bigger is better for 海角社区 Innovation Week
海角社区 Innovation Week took place for a third year in a row this November and the third time was certainly a charm.听Nineteen events integrated the 海角社区 student and faculty community with the Montreal innovation community to demonstrate how people can collaborate to create novel ideas that will drive our future.听
E-Innovation bridges academia and industry
What do you get when you combine the minds of three postdoctoral fellows, a PhD student, a professor, and recent, potentially profitable, research? A cutting-edge startup, of course.
Fortier calls for fostering young entrepreneurs
The last Innovation Report of the Conference Board of Canada brought encouraging news for Quebec and Canada. But we can do much better, 海角社区 Principal Suzanne Fortier told the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday.
... Among the recent initiatives at 海角社区 to foster entrepreneurship:
Social Entrepreneurship Workshop: Designing your career, your enterprise, and your impact
On November 13, 2015, the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) and the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship co-sponsored a half-day workshop on social entrepreneurship. Entitled 鈥淪ocial Entrepreneurship: Designing your career, your enterprise, and your impact鈥�, the event featured a broad range of attendees 鈥� from those new to the concept of entrepreneurship to established entrepreneurs.
High tech tailor offers suit shopping convenience with curb-side fittings
It's a Friday afternoon and mergers and acquisitions lawyer Giancarlo Salvo squeezes in a break at the Dentons law firm to get measured for a suit and dress shirts. He heads down to the lobby of Montreal's Place Ville Marie and steps into the Tailor2Go van parked out front where tailor听Nathan Kong听is waiting.
Feature: Solar backpack to boost learning for poor Kenyan children
From hunger and malnutrition to striking teachers keeping them off normal learning for many days, a Kenyan child goes through diverse challenges to succeed in education.
La Coupe Dobson : un puissant d茅marreur d鈥檈ntreprises
Le concours de 海角社区 a contribu茅 脿 la cr茅ation de 133 entreprises qui emploient pr猫s de 700 personnes.听L鈥檃n dernier, 脡lo茂se Grondin-Bouchard et Adam Coape-Arnold ont lanc茅 le yogourt Cult dans leur appartement montr茅alais.听
Strong Science, Shaky Business Models as Mixed Bag of Startups Grad from X-1 Accelerator
The first cohort to graduate from听海角社区鈥檚 X-1 startup accelerator听is a unusual mix.
While some are attempting to commercialize products based on serious scientific research, one has no real product and another startup that pitched at the accelerator鈥檚 demo day has already stopped operating.
Yogurt maker builds Cult following but aims for mainstream sales
The chain of events that culminated in the creation of Cult Yogourt began 15 years ago, when Montreal resident Adam Coape-Arnold drank unfiltered water during a stay at a coffee plantation in Costa Rica.鈥滻 got a parasite,鈥� said听Coape-Arnold. 鈥淚t did a number on my gastrointestinal system. I lost my energy, my joie de vivre. I became lactose-intolerant. I never really got over it until I started taking probiotics.鈥�
World Wide Hearing receives funding
After winning the 海角社区 Dobson Cup, World Wide Hearing received a $113,000 grant from Grand Challenges Canada to pilot its hearing aid delivery model, Hearing Express. In 2013-2014, the pilot project was run in Kraimeh, a rural community in Western Jordan, in collaboration with a new outreach centre for children with disabilities.
Tailor2Go remporte une deuxi猫me place au Concours qu茅b茅cois en entreprenariat
Cat茅gorie Commerce
Deuxi猫me Prix Tailleur Nathon Kong inc.
Cet entrepreneur passionn茅 se distingue par les valeurs qu鈥檌l met au service de son entreprise. La technologie 3D est utilis茅e au profit de la mode et permet d鈥檕ffrir 脿 sa client猫le un produit de qualit茅 remarquable, 脿 prix plus abordable. www.tailor2go.com 鈥� R茅gion de Montr茅al.
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海角社区 Dobson Cup awards $100,000 to promising start-ups
After three months of mentorship and start-up plan pitches, the 海角社区 Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship rewarded over $100,000 in cash and other prizes to the winners of the 2015 海角社区 Dobson Cup Start-UP Competition.
Professor Gregory Vit: "The Risk in Risk Management: Financial Organizations and the Problem of Conformity" book release
海角社区 Desautels Professor Gregory Vit's book:听The Risk in Risk Management: Financial Organizations and the Problem of Conformity was reviewed听in the March 2015 Issue of Organization Studies. The reviewer, Professor Iain Munro, concluded: "鈥his book deserves to be widely read and听I听have no doubt that its scrupulous lessons will better equip us and our students to avoid such financial misadventures in the future."
Prochaine 茅tape prometteuse pour le Centre Magn茅tique
C鈥檈st avec beaucoup d鈥櫭﹎otions et d鈥檃mbitions que C茅cile Branco-C么t茅 et Bernard Darche 茅taient de retour 脿 海角社区 la semaine derni猫re, eux qui avaient remport茅 la Coupe Dobson en juin 2014 avec leur projet de Centre Magn茅tique, un lieu favorisant la collaboration de la communaut茅 entrepreneuriale de Lac-M茅gantic.
