The Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy Internship Program is accepting applications for Winter 2025!
Submit your application by November 11th if you’re a McGill student interested in:
Submit your application by November 11th if you’re a McGill student interested in:
This workshop will provide an overview of what technological innovation and entrepreneurship are as well as an overview of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Lean Launchpad methodology, the Business Model Canvas, and the Lean Canvas.
Date: Nov. 12th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
In this workshop, you'll learn how VC's typically value an early stage innovation driven venture. To do that we'll go through and give examples on how to forecast sales and how to set pricing, how to forecast expenses and how to figure out the amount of capital needed to finance your business. We'll also explore some of the more common sources of cash from both public institutions and private organisations.
This workshop is facilitated by Derrick Wong (Ronald Chwang EiR).
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at McGill to perform market research. Our market research librarian Emily Jaeger-McEnroe will walk us through some of those resources using a market research canvas tool.
Date: Nov. 19th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Now that you have a grasp on how much money you need, this workshop will focus on the "deal". You'll learn what is a venture capital fund, its structure and how they operate, and what VCs look for in an early stage innovation driven venture. You'll also learn about the typical elements of a term sheet in connection with equity investments and SAFEs, and caveats when raising money. Finally, we'll explain how a capitalization table works and finish off with a brief overview of minority shareholder rights.
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching with our librarian April Colosimo using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
Date: Nov. 26th, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Over the past eleven years, the McGill Engine Centre has been supporting entrepreneurially-minded McGill technological innovators. Our annual Celebration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship highlights and celebrates our community of students, researchers, and faculty that are developing technologically-based solutions and new ventures to solve real-world problems. A number of awards will be announced, the year’s projects will be highlighted, and our inventor
This workshop will provide an overview of the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model or lean canvas.
Date: Dec. 3rd, 2024
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room -FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
The TechIdea Pitch competition encourages McGill students, working in teams, to propose new technologically-based ideas/solutions that solve real world problems. This year's pitch competition is taking place on January 30th, 2025 during the John D.