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Entrepreneurship

Fueling Atlantic Canada’s innovation ecosystem.

Focused on empowering the Dalhousie community and beyond to build and contribute to successful ventures, Dal Innovates' programs equip undergrads, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty for every step along the venture creation journey. From establishing a market need, to building a prototype, to sourcing investment, to securing a patent, our ecosystem is there to support. 

Our pipeline of programs

Dal Innovates ecosystem

Impact at a scale

Dal Innovates is Dalhousie University’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem, empowering the Dalhousie community and beyond to build and contribute to successful ventures.

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Explore innovation across disciplines

Dalhousie is home to five faculty-based Dalboxes that are open to post-secondary students across Nova Scotia. Providing a space to test and try new ideas, this is where entrepreneurial curiosity gets its start and flourishes as it is applied to real world problems with likeminded peers.

IDEA Sandbox Cultiv8 Surge Pulse ShiftKey Labs
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Explore and grow

Lab2Market

Lab2Market's Discover, Validate and Launch programs help research-focused graduate students and postdocs explore entrepreneurship, build business plans, and launch ventures.

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Collide

For undergraduate, graduate, and certificate students from across faculties, and faculty members interested in building entrepreneurship and innovation skills, mindsets, and attitudes.

Collide Discover Collide Validate Collide Launch
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Empowering students, early-stage startups, SMEs and industry

Unique in Atlantic Canada and one of only a few early-stage deep tech incubators in Canada, the Emera ideaHUB welcomes diverse founders to access the resources, expertise and connections they need to innovate.

ideaDesign ideaBuild IdeaBridge
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Taking innovation to the next level

Creative Destruction Lab – Atlantic delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. CDL helps promising ventures transition into high-growth companies by providing access to a powerful network of national and international mentors.

Prime – Creative Destruction Lab Oceans – Creative Destruction Lab
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Elevating entrepreneurial performance

MindFrame Connect is a national program focused on upskilling mentors, mentees, and entrepreneurs from Canada and beyond by providing access to expert training, resources, and tools designed to improve performance.

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What's happening

Discover what exciting news and events are happening among our entrepreneurship community on the Dal campus and beyond.

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