UBC and entrepreneurship
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AMS eHubThrough their partnership with e@UBC, online curriculum and extensively-trained peer mentors, they aim to provide a high-quality, peer-driven entrepreneurship education program for students across UBC.
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Centre for Social Innovation & Impact InvestingThe Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing (SauderS3i) is focused on leveraging business tools to advance social innovation and sustainability, through research, incubation, and application.
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Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)-WestThe Creative Destruction Lab is a seed-stage program for massively scalable, science-based companies. The program employs an objectives-based mentoring process with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation.
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entrepreneurship@UBCThe venture accelerator at UBC where there are different programs supporting entrepreneurs from idea to funding.
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Small Business AcceleratorOffers free online access to reliable business information and tools for secondary market research for BC businesses and entrepreneurs. This initiative is led by UBC Library’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
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Tech.Entrepreneurship@UBCtech.entrepreneurship@UBC leverages the expertise of the Sauder School of Business and entrepreneurship@UBC to offer you support. A seasoned team of domain-specific experts can provide real-world, hands-on guidance in a wide range of programs to help you move from innovative concept to successful venture.
Organizations
Various partnerships between communities, governments and other organizations may exist; search for organizations in your target location and industry.
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AshokaAn international association of fellows, entrepreneurs and others supporting social entrepreneurship worldwide.
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The Canadian Social Entrepreneurship FoundationHistorical and emerging examples of social entrepreneurs; information on events and projects; and aggregates resources from other organizations on social entrepreneurship topics.
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Innovate BCInnovate BC (formerly BC Innovation Council) encourages the development and application of advanced or innovative technologies to meet the needs of industry in BC.
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SOCAP (Social Capital Markets)Social enterprise network of investors, entrepreneurs and social impact leaders.
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Social Enterprise Council of Canada. Enterprising Non ProfitsProgram that promotes and supports social enterprise development and growth in British Columbia. Website includes information on developing asocial enterprise and a searchable library of resources, such as toolkits.
Scholarly sources
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cIRcleUniversity of British Columbia's digital repository for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalIncludes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.
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Theses Canada PortalElectronic theses and dissertations are harvested monthly from Canadian universities. There is a four-year contractual time lag for adding fulltext theses & dissertations that have been digitized by ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. Fulltext theses & dissertations are currently available for 1998-2005 plus harvested EDTs from universities.
Find books on entrepreneurship
Use our library catalogue to search for Entrepreneurship books!
Remember to check out our wide selection of Business eBooks as well!
Top 5 business databases
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Business Source Ultimate Provides access to journal articles, reports, books and videos related to business, management, economics, banking, finance, and accounting. Use for finding articles, case studies, and company and industry information.
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Factiva Provides access to a deep archive of news and business information, allowing users to conduct in-depth research on companies, industries, regional affairs.
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IBISWorld Contains full-text market research reports for over 700 U.S. industries and over 70 global industries.
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Passport GMID International statistical and market research reports for over 200 countries, covering consumer products and services, demographic and lifestyle reports and economic data.
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PitchBook Offers in-depth information on private and public companies, investors, deals, M&A, funds.
