Programs
The Centre for Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Social Impact offers the following programs and opportunities to enhance the student learning experience and assist entrepreneurs and SMEs.
Master of Management Innovation & Entrepreneurship
The program is designed to develop effective leaders in highly entrepreneurial and innovative career pursuits. Graduates leave the program ready to handle any entrepreneurial endeavour from the formation of a startup, to social innovation, to innovation within a corporate environment.
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Queen’s Innovation Centre Summer Initiative (QICSI)
QICSI is a 16-week summer program that offers the valuable opportunity to start your own business while being paid and receiving seed funding. QICSI is a highly competitive, intense and well-resourced program that takes place full time in-person on Queen's Campus from May-August and therefore only the most dedicated are encouraged to apply.
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Smith Scale-Up Summit
The Smith Scale-Up Summit is Canada’s only student-led conference connecting prominent entrepreneurs and scale-up leaders with students from a premier business school. Scaling Canadian companies is crucial to our success in the 21st-century economy. Through interactive learning, networking, and idea sharing, we can equip the next generation to drive our economy forward.
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Queen’s Entrepreneurs Competition
The QEC is an international business pitch competition held in Toronto, Canada, with +$60,000 in prizes dedicated to helping talented entrepreneurs from around the world jump-start their businesses - and their dreams.
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Dunin-Deshpande Queen’s Innovation Centre
The mission of DDQIC is to catalyze this potential, developing entrepreneurial mindsets and fostering a culture of innovation across Queen’s University, the Kingston community, and globally. We build changemakers by encouraging and supporting their entrepreneurial initiatives through startup incubators, workshops, programs, courses, and pitch competitions.
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Venture for Canada
As a national charity, Venture for Canada is on a mission to foster the entrepreneurial skills and mindsets of young Canadians. Their vision is a Canada where young people can equitably realize their entrepreneurial potential to build the most prosperous place in the world.
Venture for Canada