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Women Entrepreneurship
Speaker: Shelley McQuade (SalesFertilizer.com)
Monday, January 30, 2012
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
McMaster Innovation Park, 175 Longwood Road South, Hamilton, Ontario, L8P 0A1
Conference Room C+D
This event is FREE and light lunch will be served.
Register Here, or click here for more information.
Women Entrepreneurship is back! At this Women Entrepreneurship event, we are welcoming Shelley McQuade of SalesFertilizer.com. Shelley will be helpful to you in finding the right niche for your business; one that the big guys aren't servicing and one that the big guys aren't solving. Shelley will also spread some light on the importance of communication and customer service for your business.
Eco-Entrepreneurship to Translate Sustainability Drive into Business Opportunities
Speaker: Joosung J. Lee
Friday, October 21, 2011
11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Engineering Technology Building 535
McMaster University
Don Pether's vision realized as incubation centre opens
Helping engineering students through the challenge of converting their entrepreneurial ideas into business reality is the goal of the new Don Pether Incubation Centre that officially opens Monday.
YOU Innovate Canada Tournament
The tournament runs from September 26, 2011, to October 25, 2011, across Canada.
The regional winners will be announced during Global Entrepreneurship Week, November 14-20, 2011.
Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is an international movement designed to inspire millions of young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity in entrepreneurship. Leading up to GEW, the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF), official host of GEW Canada, is organizing YOU Innovate Canada, a creative, youthful and energetic national tournament that enables Canadians 16 and older to engage with, connect to and see the value of entrepreneurship in their everyday lives. The tournament sparks great business ideas by challenging participants to look at things in different ways.
How does YOU Innovate Canada work?
Participants will be assigned an everyday object (such as a cup, paper clip or cloth) and challenged to create new value with the object at is core. As individuals or in groups of up to four people, participants will define the value of their innovation (monetary, social or other) for their chance to win exciting prizes. They are required to submit a video explaining their innovation (deadline for submission is October 18, 2011). The public will be able to vote for the videos they like best and a carefully-selected judging panel will choose a winner in each region.
Class of 1962 Mechanical Engineering Endowed Chair in Eco-Entrepreneurship
The W.G. Booth School of Engineering Practice at McMaster University invites applications from outstanding candidates for the Class of 1962 Mechanical Engineering Endowed Chair in Eco-Entrepreneurship. This tenure/teaching-stream appointment will be at the level of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor and will commence July 1, 2011.
Universities join the startup game
McMaster University and three Entrepreneurship students are featured in an article from the National Post.
MEEI Business Competition Winner Interview
Nile Culture, a television station in Cairo had a short interview with MEEI student Raaid Batarfi asking him about his winning project in the Arab Technology Business Plan Competition.
Establishing a Culture of Innovation: What it Will Take To Compete Globally
In collaboration with Halton Region and McMaster University, the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance (GTMA) invites you to welcome the newly appointed Minister of Research & Innovation, the Hon. Glen Murray, to discuss his plans to lead Ontario communities to compete in an increasingly innovation-driven global economy.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
7:30 am - 9:00 am
McMaster University - Ron Joyce Centre, Great Hall
4350 South Service Road, Burlington
$40/individual ticket, $400/corporate table (8). Includes breakfast.
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Angel Investor Talks Start-Up Talent
Interested in starting up a high-technology company? This may be your chance. Andrew Fisher, executive vice president of Wesley Clover International, will be at McMaster University to describe the company’s successful growth formula.
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
10:00am to 11:00am
Engineering Technology Building, Room 535
McMaster University
Team-based entrepreneurship at heart of new master's program
Bringing together teams of entrepreneurs with different backgrounds and expertise to generate new business start-ups is the core concept behind a new master's degree at McMaster.
Engineering alumni make largest-ever gift to support eco-entrepreneurship
A class of engineering graduates from 1962 has banded together to donate $3,043,000 to support entrepreneurs developing and bringing sustainable technologies to market.
Alumnus takes helm of Nokia
Stephen Elop, a graduate of the computer engineering and management program (1986) at McMaster, has been named president and chief executive officer of Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia.
High-tech
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.
Read the article.
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.
