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TEC Student Entrepreneurship Program

Helping Student Inventors Transform Ideas into Business

The TEC Student Entrepreneurship Program helps entrepreneurial students in post-secondary institutions such as the University of Alberta transform technological innovations into viable business opportunities.

Are you a University of Alberta student with an idea or invention that has commercial potential? Are you an entrepreneurial MBA student wanting to get involved in a creating a technology-based company from the ground up?

We connect:

  • University student inventors with a technology that may have commercial potential,
  • MBA students who want to help create a technology-based company from the ground up, and
  • Industry mentors with entrepreneurial experience

To transform technology-based ideas into commercial enterprises.

Program Overview
Student Benefits
Applying to Enter
Pilot Program

The TEC Student Entrepreneurship Program is managed by TEC Edmonton, a joint venture of the University of Alberta and Edmonton Economic Development Corporation. The initiative is supported by the University of Alberta’s Technology Commercialization Centre in the School of Business and Ingenuity Enterprise, a province-wide collaboration to mobilize innovative ideas with commercial potential.

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