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

CNBC looks to Dobson Centre for advice on annual disruptor list

Published: 17 May 2023

Even in a year that venture capitalists’ go-to bank collapsed, and venture capital funding slowed to a trickle, the disruptive power of startups has never been clearer. The 2023 CNBC Disruptor 50...

McGill’s Dobson Centre ranks as World Top 5 University Business Incubator

Published: 24 January 2023

UBI Global announced that McGill University’s Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship ranked as a World Top 5 University Business Incubator. 

Montreal EdTech company Paper aims to address educational inequities

Published: 20 October 2022

When a parent pays a tutor directly, they are helping their own child succeed. But not every parent can afford to do that, and Montreal-based EdTech company Paper has a vision to address this...

Weston Family Foundation funds new program at Dobson

Published: 23 January 2023

The McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship is launching a new hands-on program for entrepreneurs wanting to launch sustainability-driven businesses. Funded with a $1 million gift from the Weston...

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....

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