Discover, develop – then go deeper.

You are more likely to succeed when you launch your idea within the Dal Innovates community.

A hub for world-leading research, innovation and entrepreneurship

We empower our students and faculty to be the best innovators, creators and entrepreneurs and to make an impact on local and global challenges.

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Programs For Postsecondary

Provides interdisciplinary training, blending AI with entrepreneurship, to equip early-stage founders who thrive in AI-driven enterprises. 

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Supports students in exploring entrepreneurship opportunities not based on research, reducing the risk of their ideas, and launching ventures.

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Supports masters, PhDs, postdocs and researchers across Canada to build an entrepreneurial skillset to commercialize their research. 

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Programs For Community

A nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.

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Equips founders building physical products to validate and de-risk their ideas from the concept stage to a manufacturing-ready product.

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Learn more about Dal’s collaborative innovation spaces: Cultiv8, IDEA Makerspace, Pulse, ShiftKey Labs, and SURGE.

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Innovation happens in so many places. Dal Innovates will help you find yours.

“Lab2Market changed our short-term priorities completely. What started as a hardware project ended up being a software project as it became clear where the demand was." – Kyle Briggs
“I would recommend Collide to anyone who is interested in understanding how to think as an entrepreneur. It's the perfect program to get one foot in the door of entrepreneurship." – Purvangi Patel
"I love working with people where I get to learn just as much as I am teaching. Path2Innovation allows me to do that. The inventions and ideas many of the participants are working on is simply awesome and very exciting to learn from." – Permjot Valia

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