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Entrepreneurship at Telfer

Telfer is committed to helping students succeed. For many, success will be starting a new venture or contributing to one as co-founder or team member. Entrepreneurship at Telfer provides the tools and resources you’ll need to learn, network and build your innovation and entrepreneurship skills.

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uOttawa Entrepreneurship Hub

The purpose of the Entrepreneurship Hub is to help shape an entrepreneurial mindset across the University of Ottawa campus. To do so, we promote a campus-wide entrepreneurship strategy, while recognizing the unique strengths of our individual collaborators.

Visit the uOttawa Entrepreneurship Hub website

Elevator Pitch Competition

2024 Desjardins Elevator Pitch Competition

The Desjardins Elevator Pitch Competition highlights the University of Ottawa’s top startups each year. As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, the competition allows both those in business with “traction” as well as entrepreneurs that are still in the early stages of “validating” their ideas to pitch to a panel of judges for a chance to win prize money and progression services.

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Student Clubs

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The Entrepreneurs’ Club

The Entrepreneurs’ Club of the University of Ottawa is a not-for-profit student-run organization. Over the course of the academic year, the team devotes its time to organizing professional networking events that link Telfer School of Management students with the Ottawa business community.

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ENACTUS uOttawa

ENACTUS (formerly SIFE) is an international non-profit organization that works with leaders in business and higher education to mobilize university students to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become socially responsible business leaders.

Learn & Work

Entrepreneuship Experiential Opportunities

This is a work term during which the student is expected to be directly involved in an innovative new enterprise in an entry-level management position. This includes, but is not limited to, working with an entrepreneur to create or launch a new product or service, working with a spin-off firm of a large organization, developing a business plan for a small or non-profit enterprise, or designing a novel government program within a government department or agency. This paid or voluntary practicum must be supervised by a Professor. Students must work at least one day (8 hours) per week for one semester. At the end of the practicum, students must submit a written paper and will receive a grade of S (satisfactory) or NS (not satisfactory).

Entrepreneurship Foundry (ADM3396) is a Telfer-led course and cross-campus initiative that allows you to grow your business venture in a for-credit 13-week long course. Students must deliver presentations and submit a written paper and will receive a grade of S (satisfactory) or NS (not satisfactory).

Courses

The entrepreneurial process and characteristics of the entrepreneur; social entrepreneurship; intrapreneurship; women and minorities in entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial failure; entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy and resulting programs and policies; steps in moving entrepreneurial endeavors forward; introduction to ideation and business planning.

Ideation, business modeling and validation; the business planning process, including: market evaluation and the marketing plan, physical, human resources and organizational planning, and the financial plan. Student projects in moving an actual business concept through the process from idea to plan, including: crafting a business idea; building a business model; implementing a validation plan; and, writing a business plan.

The Entrepreneurship Foundry course (ADM3396) is a cross-campus initiative that leverages University and community resources to help you grow your business venture in a for-credit 13-week long course. This course lets you earn credits while working on your existing business or social enterprise (not just an idea), acting as an accelerator for your entrepreneurial venture.

Strategic entrepreneurship, encompassing entrepreneurship in existing large and small firms and in not-for-profit organisations. Strategic entrepreneurship emphasises simultaneity in opportunity-seeking behaviours – supported by entrepreneurial leadership and an entrepreneurial culture – and advantage-seeking behaviours – supported by strategic management of resources.

The Innovation process, from discovery to diffusion; intellectual property, innovation financing, organization design and strategy for innovation. Successful frameworks, strategies, funding techniques, business models, risks, and barriers for introducing break-through products and services.

Students will examine some of the most salient issues facing family businesses from the perspective of a professional advisor. Case studies and will be used to demonstrate how to address fundamental challenges facing family businesses (e.g. communication, governance and succession issues, family conflicts) with best practices. Moreover, guest speakers who are family business advisors or family business members will share their unique experiences relative to working with, or in, family businesses. The course will be highly interactive where students will be encouraged to discuss how to best address the weaknesses of family firms while simultaneously building their strengths.

Complementary Option in Entrepreneurship

Our newly launched complementary option in entrepreneurship is designed to help you develop skills that are necessary to contribute to a new venture creation, a high growth enterprise, or an innovative existing organization. More info

Entrepreneurship Microprogram

Our new Entrepreneurship microprogram gives mature students and people from the community the opportunity to gain expertise in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking regardless of their career path. More info

Telfer Knowledge Hub

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