Fortier calls for fostering young entrepreneurs

The last Innovation Report of the Conference Board of Canada brought encouraging news for Quebec and Canada. But we can do much better, McGill Principal Suzanne Fortier told the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on Wednesday.

... Among the recent initiatives at McGill to foster entrepreneurship:

• The McGill Dobson Cup competition for business and social-enterprise start-ups, featuring mentorship for participants, has helped create more than 130 ventures and 700 jobs in the past six years.
• The McGill X-1 accelerator program, created last summer, enables students to spend 10 weeks working full-time on their start-ups.
• McGill is a founding member, with ETS and now Concordia, of the Quartier de l’innovation. 

Read full article: McGill Reporter, November 25, 2015