What is it like when groundbreaking work is in its early days? How can you build success at scale? The journey is ambiguous, hard, and money is scarce. Failures happen daily, but success means achieving something transformational.
Velocity is the University of Waterloo’s flagship entrepreneurship center, established in 2008. It started unconventionally as a student service, and over 16 years, its participants have created nearly CAD 40 billion in enterprise value. Velocity shows why universities are crucial for Canada’s innovation economy. But like businesses and governments, universities need to move beyond 20th-century approaches to innovation.
In a time of upheaval and crisis, we need to speed up innovation and do it more effectively – it’s time to go further, faster.
This presentation shares how Velocity inspires and drives innovation. Examples of starting from an idea and quickly entering the market will be shared from startup journeys and intrapreneurial efforts. Discussed is our focus on fostering personal development for entrepreneurial success and how universities, along with their students and researchers, can use entrepreneurship to tackle consequential challenges and win outsized opportunities.
This event will be held in Anthony P Toldo Health Education Centre room 102
January 24, 2025