In the air force, getting your wings means that you are finally ready to soar aloft alone.
Thanks to a Queen’s accelerator program called Wings, six fledgling Kingston and area tech entrepreneurs are similarly poised to take flight.
KINGSTON, ONTARIO – SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 - Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation (QPI) has developed a new workshop for graduate students (including those in professional programs such as Law or Medicine), post-doctoral fellows, and faculty members conducting research in fields in which knowledge mobilization or commercialization of the research outcome is likely or who have a startup idea.
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(September 1, 2020) Today, Queen’s University and Kingston Economic Development Corporation announced the names of the 21 women-led businesses that will make up the first cohort of the LEAD program.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
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“As you go through different stages of growing a business from ideation to IPO,” says Tyler Whitney of Spectra Plasmonics, “there are different questions you need to be asking yourself and different details that you need to pay attention to.”
He’s explaining the decision that he and business partner Malcolm Eade made to enroll their company in the new Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation’s (QPI) Growth Accelerator program.
Imagine joining a gym or a health club in the not-too-distant future and, immediately after sign up, you are given a test that provides you with an accurate baseline measurement of your fitness. Then, periodically, you are tested again to measure progress.
Daniel Desjardins’ reason for joining Queen’s Partnership and Innovation’s new Growth Accelerator was simple: “It was the right time to do all that learning.”
