UNB Partners With U.S. University To Help Researchers Turn Technologies Into Businesses
FREDERICTON – The University of New Brunswick is partnering with George Washington University to provide I-STEM programing, which will help scientists and researchers turn their new technologies into businesses.
The university said its J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship, known as TME, would launch its first I-STEM cohort in October. The curriculum will be taught by GWU specialists, who will also train staff at UNB to teach future I-STEM cohorts.
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency has provided a grant of $218,250 through the Regional Economic Growth through Innovation program to help implement the programming.
“We look forward to bringing our lean startup entrepreneurship training program to Canada for the first time,” said Jim Chung, Associate Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at GWU in Washington, D.C. He added that GWU has previously worked with the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps in the U.S. and the India Institute of Technology Madras, and now wants “UNB researchers to bring exciting new inventions out of their labs and into the market.”
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