McGill Dobson Centre and MIF support innovation and entrepreneurship

Published: 21 November 2022

The McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship helps startups launch their innovative ideas and, along with the Office of Innovation and Partnerships (I+P)'s McGill Innovation Fund (MIF), supports...

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,...

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

Entrepreneurs and big dreams shine at Montreal Startup Festival

Published: 15 July 2014

Montrealer Michael Moszberg was studying abroad and in the market for a gym, but didn’t want to make the commitment to a membership.

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...

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....

Adam B. Coape-Arnold: Artisantrepreneur

Published: 31 July 2014

Adam B. Coape-Arnold came to McGill’s School of Continuing Studies the day before classes started for the Fall 2013 semester in order to see what the School offered.

Bold ideas take flight at McGill Dobson Cup

Published: 26 June 2014

One June 5, four teams were crowned victors of the 2014 McGill Dobson Cup, the annual start-up competition hosted by the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Desautels Faculty of Management....

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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