Dernier Comm. de presse

Notre avenir repose sur le financement de l’innovation et le budget représente un pas dans la bonne direction
L’Association canadienne des institutions de santé universitaires (ACISU) se déclare encouragée par le budget de 2010 dans la mesure où il reconnaît le rôle que jouent les hôpitaux de recherche et leurs instituts pour ce qui est de faire progresser la stratégie canadienne en matière d’innovation.

Nouvelles récentes de l'ACISU

Extraits vidéo : Pour le meilleur et pour le pire – le rôle des patients dans la recherche en santé Un Café scientifique de l’ACISU, financé par les IRSC – 6 mai 2010
En matière de soins aux patients, les organisations membres de l'ACISU sont en première ligne. Les patients et leurs familles ont un rôle à jouer en leur sein, aussi bien sur le plan de la recherche susceptible de sauver des vies que sur celui de l'innovation. Quel type de recherche se déroule au sein des organisations de santé universitaires? Telle est la question à laquelle visait à répondre le Café scientifique de l'ACISU consacré au rôle des patients dans la recherche en santé proposé le 6 mai dernier, financé par les IRSC.

Collaborative Bootcamp for Young Entrepreneurs (Anglais)

Waterloo launches new bootcamp for young entrepreneurs to build future economy

If you know of a student entrepreneur that would be interested in this, please don't hesitate to pass it on.

We'd like to take this opportunity to advise you of an exciting initiative that Ontario Centres of Excellence's Centre for Commercialization of Research is undertaking in collaboration with the University of Waterloo to launch a new type of collaborative training camp for young entrepreneurs.

The University of Waterloo recently issued a news release announcing the VeloCity Entrepreneur BootCamp (VEB) which will allow some of the most promising young entrepreneurs in Canada to learn how to help create the country's future economy. The University of Waterloo is drawing on its widely acknowledged strengths in innovation to launch the boot camp along with some funding from Ontario Centres of Excellence's Centre for Commercialization of Research.

Waterloo joined forces with the Ontario Centres of Excellence's (OCE) Centre for Commercialization of Research to set up VEB. Other key partners include the Accelerator Centre; Communitech, which will provide programming and access to their network of mentors; and the Impact Entrepreneurship Group, which will help promote VEB on campuses across the country.

The initiative, which runs from May to July, will be based in Waterloo's VeloCity, a trail-blazing hybrid student residence and high-tech incubator which in less than two years has spawned several strong start-up companies in mobile communications and digital media through its teamwork approach.

The VeloCity Entrepreneur BootCamp (VEB) will enable top student entrepreneurs to fast track the launch of their technology-based startups. Selected students will be mentored by some of Canada's most experienced and successful entrepreneurs. They will live rent-free at VeloCity and will work out of office space provided at no charge by the Accelerator Centre in Waterloo's research and technology park.

The students will each receive $3,000 (up to a maximum $9,000 for each team) and own 100 per cent of their intellectual property. As well, they will attend seminars and workshops on important business-related topics. It is the first nation-wide, residence-based program of its kind in North Americ a.

At the end of the bootcamp, students will be ready to launch their products or services for the benefit of the Canadian economy. They will also be eligible for additional seed funding through OCE's Centre for Commercialization of Research's new entrepreneur program.

We are very pleased to be part of this pioneering initiative. In aiming this program specifically at students we are helping to create a culture of entrepreneurship among young people which is critical to the long-term development of innovation.

Student applicants have to email their proposals to velocity@uwaterloo.ca by Feb. 14. Besides a resume, students must submit an overview of their start-up outlining its novelty and marketability as well as a YouTube video promoting the idea. Velocity Entrepreneur Bootcamp is open to any post-secondary student in Canada.

Applications will be reviewed by an expert panel and decisions made and communicated by the week of Feb. 22.

For further details about VEB, go to www.velocity.uwaterloo.ca.

4 Février 2010