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The Centre received a $100,000 grant from the
Joseph S. Stauffer Foundation to generate white
papers and develop a speaker series addressing
business perspectives on healthcare reform.
Received its first grant from the Canadian Institute
of Health Research to host a workshop on Change
Mangement for Healthcare policy in 2013.
Completed a landmark study for the federal
government’s Rural Secretariat on the
relationship between knowledge mobilization
and rural economic development.
Hosted a SSHRC-funded conference,
Connecting
the Future: Rural Broadband Technology, Policy
and Impact
, which brought together an international
group of academics and practitioners.
The second annual Economic Revitalization
Conference showcased collaborative research
projects being undertaken in Eastern Ontario.
2012/2013 Milestones
The TriColour Venture Fund program attracted
12 students. As of March 2013, 11 business plans
from companies in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and
Kingston were considered for investment. Students
conducted due diligence reviews on five of the plans
and recommended investing in two to the Fund’s
Advisory Board.
The QCBV-facilitated survey of Best Small and
Medium Sized Employers (SME) in Canada received
responses from more than 20,000 SME employees
from coast-to-coast, the largest participation rate in
the nine years that the Centre has participated in
the program. The Top 50 were profiled in
PROFIT
magazine in February.
Three ’Dare to Dream’ student interns (one
Commerce and two MBA recent graduates)
received up to $15,000 for each of their new
ventures. See the story on page 6 of the summer
2013 issue of
QSB Magazine
.
The Monieson Centre for Business Research in Healthcare creates new opportunities for
and provides on-going support to academics, business leaders and policymakers to develop
research-based solutions to real-world problems. The Centre engages QSB researchers with
colleagues in health sciences, public policy, law, and other disciplines to address the business
aspects of healthcare theory, policy and practice. In addition to its business research in
healthcare, the Centre is also pursuing an economic revitalization research theme.
Queen’s Centre for Business Venturing (QCBV) supports the creation, leadership and
management of new ventures. Its activities range from embedding new venture thinking into
the curriculum — including an elective course that enables students to invest monies from the
TriColour Venture Fund — to providing new ventures with access to capital, and conducting
applied research in business venturing.
The Monieson Centre for Business Research in Healthcare
Queen’s Centre for Business Venturing
2012/2013 Milestones
Economic Revitalization Conference, April 2013
