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SFU named Canada’s top university for innovation in global WURI rankings
May 18, 2023
Simon Fraser University is Canada’s top university for innovation and industrial application, as well as number two in the world for entrepreneurial spirit, according to the 2023 World University Rankings for Innovation (WURI). It is the third consecutive year that SFU has ranked as the top university in Canada in the overall innovation category, as well as for the entrepreneurial spirit and industrial application categories. SFU moved up globally among innovative universities to 13th in the world—up […]More...
SFU brings international innovators together to turn science into solutions
Aug 11, 2020
With a growing urgency for universities to address global challenges with breakthrough innovations, the demand for entrepreneurial scientists is on the rise. On Aug. 4 and 5, the Beedie School of Business’ Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship drew together 395 attendees from 38 countries in 22 time zones at the digital 2020 R & D Management Symposium, Invention to Innovation: Creating the Conditions for Impact, to re-define how universities, policymakers and industry can advance research-based innovation and respond […]More...
Georgia Straight: SFU instructors show some entrepreneurial zeal as they reinvent business education in Canada
Jan 4, 2017
The following article was published by the Georgia Straight on November 9, 2016. By Charlie Smith. Shawn Smith didn’t follow a conventional path to becoming a business-education innovator. Growing up in White Rock, he took the B.C. secondary-school curriculum by correspondence while working full-time, starting at the age of 15.More...
Sarah Lubik Q&A: Why entrepreneurship skills can be relied upon
Oct 5, 2016
In the second part of a two-part interview, SFU Director of Entrepreneurship Sarah Lubik talks about the path her new role has led her on, why entrepreneurship skills are so important today, and why SFU’s approach to teaching entrepreneurship is both empowering and unique.More...
Sarah Lubik Q&A: Why entrepreneurship skills can be relied upon
Oct 5, 2016
In the second part of a two-part interview, SFU Director of Entrepreneurship Sarah Lubik talks about the path her new role has led her on, why entrepreneurship skills are so important today, and why SFU’s approach to teaching entrepreneurship is both empowering and unique.More...
SFU launches new downtown graduate residences and innovation centre
Sep 27, 2016
#video-wrap { float: right; margin: 0 0 0 20px; } Simon Fraser University has opened the Charles Chang Innovation Centre, a new graduate student residence and innovation facility in downtown Vancouver.More...