Research Guides: Entrepreneurship: Other Entrepreneurship Resources

UBC and Entrepreneurship

AMS eHub
Through 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.
Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing
The Centre for Social Innovation & Impact Investing (SauderS3i) is focused on leveraging business tools to advance social innovation and sustainability, through research, incubation, and application.
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)-West
The 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.
entrepreneurship@UBC
The venture accelerator at UBC where there are different programs supporting entrepreneurs from idea to funding.
Small Business Accelerator
Offers 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.
Tech.Entrepreneurship@UBC
tech.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.

Ashoka
An international association of fellows, entrepreneurs and others supporting social entrepreneurship worldwide.
BC Tech Association
The Canadian Social Entrepreneurship Foundation
Historical and emerging examples of social entrepreneurs; information on events and projects; and aggregates resources from other organizations on social entrepreneurship topics.
Innovate BC
Innovate BC (formerly BC Innovation Council) encourages the development and application of advanced or innovative technologies to meet the needs of industry in BC.
New Ventures BC
Prosper Canada (Formerly Social Enterprise Development Innovations)
SOCAP (Social Capital Markets)
Social enterprise network of investors, entrepreneurs and social impact leaders.
Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA)
Social Enterprise Council of Canada. Enterprising Non Profits
Program 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

cIRcle This link opens in a new window
University of British Columbia's digital repository for research and teaching materials created by the UBC community and its partners.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Includes 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.
Theses Canada Portal This link opens in a new window
Electronic 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.