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opportunities abound
Access to opportunity is a relative measure. This becomes clear when you speak with Salman Bawa about the advantages of being a young entrepreneur sprouting roots in Hamilton.
Saudi Arabia Taps McMaster Tech Entrepreneurship Expertise
University professors from Saudi Arabia are in Canada for two weeks to take a crash course on how to teach and cultivate technology-based entrepreneurship.
Student's Recyclable Furniture Venture Profiled
An article about a venture from the Xerox Centre for Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation to market recyclable furniture was published in The Toronto Star on July 9. The sophisticated-looking furniture is made from cardboard and other materials that can be recycled. While it is designed and manufactured in Mexico, two Master's graduates from the program, Oscar Capilla and Cristian Nunez, are commercializing the concept for the Canadian market. They recently arranged for YUP Inc., an eco-lifestyle company based in Mississauga, to market the furniture globally. The two groups recently exhibited the furniture at the Green Living Show in Toronto.
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Cottage
Rolls into McMaster to Test Solar Technology
This was cottage traffic of a different kind. Drivers on the Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 403 between Oakville and Hamilton were doing a double-take as a ‘cottage’ to be used for testing solar technology was moved to McMaster Innovation Park.
Don
Pether Gives McMaster $1-million to Spur Technology Start-Ups
Young technology start-up companies in Canada are getting a major boost. Don Pether, a leading figure in Canada’s steel history, is donating $1-million to McMaster University’s Faculty of Engineering to help students transform their inventions into businesses.
What's
the Difference Between' Now Answered Online
Wondering what the difference is between men and women? Or maybe you want to know the difference between a violin and a fiddle, an apostle and a disciple, an arbitrator and a mediator, or white eggs and brown eggs?
Well, thanks to two recent graduates from McMaster University you can get those answers and more by visiting www.differencebetween.net.
McMaster inventor on Arab reality show
They filmed him in the lab, walking on campus and visiting Hamilton tourist sites. Now Mohammed Khalaf, a 25 year-old master's of engineering entrepreneurship and innovation student at McMaster, will debut on an inventors reality show to be broadcast on 18 Arab television channels beginning May 29.
Innovation Showcase postering winner wows conference with new technology
A dazzling presentation explaining the commercial applications for his research earned McMaster's Tim Pryor a second place finish in the oral competition held at the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Discovery 2009 conference earlier this month.
TV-Reality Program to be Aired May 29/09
MEEI student, Mohammed Khalaf to participate in new Qatari reality television program 'Stars of Science'
XCEEi Director Reappointed
Rafik Loutfy has been reappointed as the Director of the Xerox Centre for Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Both appointments are effective July 1, 2009.
TiEQuest Awards Gala Dinner
TiEQuest Awards Gala Dinner will be held on April 17, 2009 at Toronto Board of Trade, 1 First Canadian Place, Toronto. It is considered as a prestigious gathering of entrepreneurs and investors. Please register at www.tietoronto.org to attend the Gala Dinner.
Winners of the First McMaster Start-Up Challenge
Faster healing, customizable tactile displays and more efficient video signage were the three start-up business ideas that most impressed judges at the inaugural McMaster Start-Up Challenge.
Golf Town picks up student golf invention
A new high-tech golf training aid developed by an Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation master's student at McMaster has been added to the product list of one of the Canada's largest golf retailers.
Bright future for solar panels
Although Mexican student Jesika Briones had been accepted by graduate schools in Europe, she enrolled in the Masters of Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation program at McMaster with the goal of pursuing something more practical: starting her own business in the environmental field.
Program puts inventor on road to success
McMaster University's entrepreneurship centre helps develop innovative dashboard control screen
Degree engineers success stories
Until recently, entrepreneurs who dreamed of successfully funding, developing and commercializing an innovation had few options than to jump into the sink-or-swim school of hard knocks.
McMaster RFID lab partners with PricewaterhouseCoopers
The McMaster Radio Frequency Identification Applications Lab (MRAL) and PricewaterhouseCoopers India have teamed up to pursue RFID-related consulting and solutions services in India.
McMaster partners with India for RFID traffic project
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology may provide the key to better traffic management and improved pollution control in Canada, India and worldwide.
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors providing image projection and IR technology for reconfigurable tactile display from Digital Dash
OSTAR®-Projection LED modules and IR DRAGON® infrared emitters from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors are the LED light sources behind a new reconfigurable control and display interface designed by Digital Dash, Ltd. of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Bright idea helps McMaster team win entrepreneurship competition
It is a $1-million ray of hope for a business venture being pursued through the Xerox Centre for Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation at McMaster University.
CPRGlove, Digital Dash win at regional entrepreneurship competition
Two business ventures seeded at McMaster University took first and third at the Wes Nichol LaunchPad $50K regional entrepreneurship challenge held in Waterloo on April 4.
McMaster students excel at regional innovation fair
Five McMaster engineering entrepreneurship master's students walked away with $5,000 each last week thanks to their talent for pitching business start-ups.
