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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 […]

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Digital health solution and pioneering medical treatment win SFU Beedie science and tech venture competition

Oct 19, 2018

An advanced fuel cell technology, a treatment for arthritis, and a wearable massage device were among the ventures pitched to a panel of industry judges at the third annual Venture Pitch Competition at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. The event, which took place on October 10, 2018, brought together five scientist-entrepreneurship students in the third cohort of the invention to Innovation (i2I) program at SFU Beedie’s Segal Graduate School. This graduate certificate program […]

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SFU Beedie explores offering credit to high school students completing youth entrepreneurship program

May 16, 2018

SFU’s Beedie School of Business has announced a unique agreement with Youth Entrepreneurship Leadership Launchpad (YELL) to explore a pilot scheme to give high-school students who complete the YELL entrepreneurship program university course credit at the school. YELL and SFU Beedie will work together to develop a new model to give credit to any student in BC who completes the YELL program, to determine how this might be done. YELL currently offers entrepreneurship training to students […]

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Business of Design students launch makerspace at SFU Surrey

Mar 14, 2018

Students in SFU’s Business of Design program, an interdisciplinary collaboration created by the Beedie School of Business and the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, have created _space, an 1,800 sq ft prototype makerspace located at SFU’s Surrey Campus. _space offers students the opportunity to use a variety of equipment including a sewing machine, electronic and woodworking tools, as well as share knowledge with others across disciplines. _space is currently available for students and clubs […]

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SFU Beedie student selected for entrepreneurial leadership initiative

Feb 2, 2018

Rachel Chase, an undergraduate student at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, is among three SFU students to be selected for the 2018 cohort of The Next 36 a national initiative aimed at transforming Canada’s most promising post-secondary student innovators into leading entrepreneurs. Rachel was selected alongside Ardalan Benam,a recent MSc graduate from the School of Computing Science, and Nell Du,  an undergraduate in the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering. With three students accepted, SFU has more students […]

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Wearable tech and carbon capture companies win SFU science and tech start-up competition

Oct 12, 2017

Start-up companies FlexiPatchR, which makes wearable technology to monitor Parkinson’s disease symptoms, and Flow-Through Solutions, which helps mining companies capture CO2 emissions, were the winners in their respective categories at the second annual “Invention to Innovation” venture pitch competition. The event, which took place on October 11, 2017, brought together six scientist-entrepreneurship students in the second cohort of the i2I program at SFU’s Beedie School of Business. This Graduate Certificate in Science and Technology Commercialization […]

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Technology Entrepreneurship@SFU Class of 2017 makes final presentations

Aug 24, 2017

In front of a sellout audience of 200 business experts, investors, instructors, students and alumni at the Westminster Savings Theatre at SFU’s Surrey Campus on August 3, students in the Technology Entrepreneurship@SFU (tech e@sfu) 2016/2017 cohort made their final presentations of the business ideas they have been developing over the past year. Tech e@SFU is a high-tech entrepreneurship program, funded by BCIC and the SpencerCreo Foundation, offering students hands-on training and support as they go […]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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