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  Overview of programs that move your idea to prototype
  
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  Overview of programs that take you from mentorship to market
  
  ideaBRIDGE
  
  Prime – Creative Destruction Lab
  
  Oceans – Creative Destruction Lab
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  Innovation Week
  
  Join us for the second annual Dal Innovation Week September 22 – 27, 2025
  
  Events
  
  Dal Innovates Event Calendar
  
  COLLIDE VALIDATE,NEWS | March 6, 2025
  Dal Innovates Congratulates Collide Validate Winter 2025 Graduates
  
  28 student teams engage in entrepreneurship, critically testing their ideas in the marketplace. Dal Innovates is pleased to congratulate 28 ambitious entrepreneurial student teams on completing Atlantic...
  
  DAL INNOVATION WEEK EVENT | SEPT. 22-27, 2025
  
  Dal Innovation Week will showcase ventures and innovations springing up across campus and the dynamic network of programming and support offered in the university entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem.
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