How does innovation come to life at McGill?

Innovation is certainly a buzzword in business media and Canadian policy – but at what point does the buzz transform into action? At McGill, “innovation” is most broadly understood to mean the advancing of public good, either through the development of scientific and technological solutions to market problems, or through novel approaches to meeting society’s pressing needs.

Central to McGill’s innovation agenda is kick-starting entrepreneurial and innovative activity on campus, from all quarters – undergraduate to senior faculty. Undergraduates have a new resource that will encourage them to think about their work’s potential to affect change, through the newly created complement of cross-disciplinary minors in entrepreneurship, developed by the Desautels Faculty of Management. There are four new minors in entrepreneurship in total: Entrepreneurship for Science Students, Music Entrepreneurship,Social Entrepreneurship, and Agribusiness Entrepreneurship. The Faculty of Law is currently developing an entrepreneurship minor tailored to law students.

Read full article: McGill Reporter, June 8, 2016