Entrepreneurial ecosystem
Get ready to launch! Our growing entrepreneurial ecosystem will provide you with the resources and the support you need at every stage during your start-up journey.
Our entrepreneurial ecosystem
Ideate
The ideation stage is the first stage to launch a start-up.
This stage requires you to identify a problem you want to solve. These services will help you develop, communicate and validate new ideas and solutions:
Validate
The create stage is the client-centered approach to develop your product or service.
These services will help you validate your product or service, develop based on client needs, and receive initial funds:
Scale
Accelerate your startup. The MakerLaunch program provides student and recent alumni entrepreneurs with the support necessary to fast track commercialization of uOttawa Engineering technologies, and launch new tech startups.
Work on a start-up as part of your masters’
Collaborate with other entrepreneurial driven students in founding tech start-up companies with Alacrity Ottawa. Alacrity Ottawa is integrated within the Master’s in Entrepreneurial Engineering Design. Students will do course work in their first year and join Alacrity Ottawa in their second year to work on an industry challenge.
Request funding
Funding for students projects and initiatives like pre-professional design competitions and entrepreneurship initiatives is available through the Engineering Endowment Fund.
Engineering Endowment Fund