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'It takes so much more than just a good idea': Students explore entrepreneurship through Impact Centre course

January 16, 2020

“Entrepreneurship is a journey,” says Alon Eisenstein.

“And along the way, entrepreneurs and their startups face many challenges — with technology, with a lack of funding. There are many questions. Does the business plan make sense? Do we have what we need to take the next step?”

A team member holds the Robo-Dropper, a small robotic rover designed to drop seeds into the ground at regular intervals.

Hackathon for Science Education: Hacking a better world

November 11, 2019

For two days in late September, 50 students, postdoctoral fellows or recent graduates of the University of Toronto or other Canadian post-secondary schools came together to combine robotics, coding and science education to hack a better world.

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Impact Centre symposium explores entrepreneurial work-integrated learning

November 09, 2019

The Impact Centre in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto’s upcoming “Beyond Incubation” symposium is looking to bring entrepreneurial educators — instructors, educational developers, quality assurance professionals, program managers, researchers and entrepreneurs themselves — together to explore the evolving

CNIB Foundation’s national lead in accessibility and assistive technology Jason Fayre with iMerciv co-founder and CEO Bin Liu testing MapinHood, a pedestrian routing app featuring audible alerts about hazards.

U of T alumnus receives Microsoft's AI for Accessibility grant

October 24, 2019

Toronto’s streets will soon be more accessible to people with disabilities thanks to a new smartphone app developed by iMerciv, a startup co-founded by University of Toronto civil engineering alumnus Bin Liu.

Catherine Chan partnered with Weiwei Li to found Honeybee Hub.

U of T graduates’ app — Honeybee Hub — will help researchers find study participants faster

October 15, 2019

Honeybee Hub has researchers buzzing.

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Diva Turial (’09) headed to international pitch competition, focused on empowering women in Afghanistan

September 30, 2019

Sebastian Kosch and Quincy Poon founded Plank Optimization to help medical schools to match residents with hospitals.

Impact Centre’s entrepreneurship training program is still going strong after ten years

March 25, 2019

The Impact Centre at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences is calling for aspiring entrepreneurs to apply to Techno2019, the tenth running of its flagship entrepreneurship training program for scientists and engineers.

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Robert Herjavec ('84) says his liberal arts degree taught him this very important business skill

February 22, 2019

“Shark Tank” star and multi-millionaire Robert Herjavec (Political Science & English literature '84) tells CNBC Make It that his English degree has helped him “quite a bit” in his career as an entrepreneur.

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Startup internships put classroom learning to work

February 14, 2019

With work integrated learning on the rise, students are looking for more opportunities to enhance their post-secondary education. For students Christian Garcia Salguero and Joseph Belcastro, they chose to gain experience by enrolling in the Impact Centre’s IMC392 startup internship course.

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How a startup internship laid the foundation for a career

January 07, 2019

There are some experiences that, when you look back, put you on a path leading directly to where you are today. For U of T alumna Stephenny Ng, that experience was a startup internship with digital pathology company Pathcore Inc, which has led her to her current job at Oracle Canada.

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