By Susan Hickman

Nineteen-year-old criminology student Shalisa Shaw had no idea how much work was involved in starting a business until she enrolled in an introductory entrepreneurship course at Carleton University.

With three other students, she sold nearly $2,500 worth of glass water bottles predominantly targeted at the millennials market. Sandblasted with custom messages, Shaw’s “VESI” bottles pulled in about $1,400 in profits that were donated to the Ottawa Humane Society.

TIM Student Creates Mission Control Space Services

By Emily James
Photos by Justin Tang

When Ewan Reid left NASA’s Johnson Space Station in Houston for the last time four years ago, he had served as a mission controller on nine of the final 12 space shuttle missions.

Lead To Win, a Carleton-led ecosystem, has been named one of the top 10 academic business incubators in North America by UBI Global.

The announcement was made Tuesday in Toronto at an awards ceremony attended by members of the Lead To Win Council that included founder Tony Bailetti, director of the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program; Steven Muegge of the Sprott School of Business; Emily Byron of the TIM program; Rowland Few from the Lead To Win Sales Desk; and Ludovico Prattico, TIM alumnus and manager of the opportunity review boards.

On November 2 and 3, 2015, UBI Global and Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) co-hosted a benchmarking conference & award ceremony for the 2015 top performing university business incubators in North America. The event was held at Malaparte at TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St W, Toronto, ON M5V 3X5, Canada.

After a successful inaugural year in 2014, Carleton University was pleased to welcome Axis Ottawa’s return this October, giving the local and surrounding startup community an opportunity to put their products in front of the world’s leading international strategic invest

More than 50 people celebrated the accomplishments of students in Carleton University’s Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program who hail from North and South American countries.Thirteen students got the chance to speak about their business opportunities and research accomplishments at the June 11, 2015 event at the university’s Accelerator – a unique space for entrepreneurs.The TIM program includes students from several South American countries, including Venezuela, Brazil, Columbia, Guyana and Peru.

Carleton University’s Technology Innovation Management program launches Lead To Win Cyber (LTW Cyber).  LTW Cyber is an innovation hub for technology ventures that have agreed to collaborate for the purpose of addressing the needs of the global market for cybersecurity. Each technology venture will pursue its own opportunities to grow while seeking collaborative opportunities with the other ventures that are part of LTW Cyber.