Meet the Prize Recipients of the 2025 edition of the McGill Dobson Cup

Published: 9 May 2025

The McGill Dobson Bootcamp & Cup, powered by the National Bank of Canada, is a program designed for early-stage startups, with selected startups competing for over $200,000 in funding across 4...

Meet the 2018 Food and Agribusiness Convergent Innovation Prize Winner

Published: 27 April 2018

By Joëlle Rondeau, Research Assistant, McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics

Interius Farms reaches new heights in vertical farming

Published: 19 November 2020

Desautels alumni Jonnie Lawson (BCom’20) and Tristan Zeman (BCom’17) are hard at work to make sustainable, year-round produce accessible to Canadians through indoor vertical farms. Over the summer,...

New Internet Start-Up Hypejar Uses Social Media to Accurately Forecast Demand for Future Products

Published: 11 July 2013

An online social platform that accurately forecasts future sales of new products has won first place at the Desautels Faculty of Management’s entrepreneurial competition, the Dobson Cup....

Universities that Teach You to Change the World

Published: 23 October 2013

Just three months after graduating this year from the University of Waterloo, Jonathan Rivard’s startup company had generated $130,000 in revenue....

McGill Dobson Cup Boot Camp

Published: 12 February 2014

The McGill Dobson Cup (MDC) Start-UP Boot Camp is all about action, training, knowledge, and collaboration. You will learn from successful start-UP veterans, students, lawyers, as well as, through...

Feeling entrepreneurial?

Published: 25 June 2014

“People used to take a traits-based approach to defining entrepreneurs: they are risk-takers, for instance,” says Greg Vit, BCom’80, director of the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship in McGill’s...

Lac-Mégantic: des étudiants proposent un incubateur entrepreneurial

Published: 25 June 2014

Cécile Branco, Ségolène Rolin et Bernard d'Arche, trois étudiants l'Université McGill, ont conçu un projet de centre d'innovation qui pourrait bien voir le jour dans le nouveau centre-ville...

McGill students’ plans to help rebuild Lac-Mégantic win praise

Published: 25 June 2014

One year after a runaway train transporting oil plowed through the downtown core of Lac-Mégantic, igniting and razing much of the town’s commercial centre, three McGill University students with a...

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