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Projects by Category

Nanotess Business Development

The project will be to strategize and develop business development market access activities that will result in future commercialization opportunities to overcome barriers to market entry for our nanotechnology solutions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kristina Rinker

Student:

Partner:

NanoTess Inc.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

I3 Incubator Project Final

The primary focus of the internship program will be assisting Penrose Partners in the development, programming, and execution of our I3 Innofund Incubator program. Currently in its first iteration, the Innofund Incubator is the premier destination for blockchain and digital asset startups looking to accelerate their growth and expand to international markets. In partnership with Ryerson University’s premier DMZ incubator, as well as the Government of Bermuda, the incubator provides the resources, guidance, and partnerships necessary for exponential growth. The intern staffing this project will touch all aspects of the incubator program, including but not limited to: client management, market research, content production, social media & marketing strategy, operations & logistics, and more.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sandy Staples

Student:

Partner:

Penrose Partners

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Good Local – E-Commerce Integration

Goodlocal’s online multi-vendor marketplace provides local retailers with an easy to use platform for managing and selling their products and services, and provides local buyers with a one-stop shop for all their needs. Goodlocal has experienced tremendous growth in less than a calendar year. They have on boarded more than 250 vendors, 7000 products, fulfilled more than 5000 orders and generated more than $500 000 in revenue. Goodlocal’s body of work and successes clearly confirm that an online marketplace with our model can largely benefit both local business owners and the local economy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brendan Weimer

Student:

Partner:

GoodLocal

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Retail trade; Wholesale trade

University:

Red River College Polytechnic

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

FLYHT AFIRS Edge Product Commercialization

The Cartelle Group Ltd has been retained by FLYHT Aerospace Solutions LTD to act as their internal marketing department. The business challenge for the Mitacs project is it to commercialize an innovative avionics device and supporting SaaS solutions within domestic and international markets using innovative marketing practises. This is a critical step to achieve footholds into new markets and accounts to scale revenues. The company wishes to grown revenues fourfold within the next five years. Such growth would grow the Calgary workforce dramatically adding well paid technical jobs to an economy that needs it.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Halek

Student:

Partner:

The Cartelle Group Ltd

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Digital Product Sales Intern (SyntecX)

SyntecX is working on an initiative to provide a unique in-kind service across Canada, it contains mixed of enterprise applications and consulting/professional services to small and mid-size enterprises. These applications help businesses to smooth their operation however without consulting they cannot achieve full optimization. Hence our consulting provides our clients End to End service through implementing a best-fit App for their business and automate their bookkeeping and accounting until tax filing.
We are a one-stop-shop for businesses. We provide a unique proposition where they get all solutions and operations in form of consulting. We want to create an attractive sales pitch and strategy to make this proposition understandable to businesses. Also, we want to engage interns who can create and test sales strategies. The main goal of sales strategy is to generate leads and successful transformation into sales.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shelley Rinehart

Student:

Partner:

SyntecX Global Corporation

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Mobile Market Program

The Farmers’ Truck is a social enterprise offering products and services that empower organizations to address the lack of fresh food access in their communities.
The Farmers’ Truck is developing a program which will be addressing these three challenges that NGOs face in our innovative program. The intern will map out the process of adoption and will document a pilot effort.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shelley Rinehart

Student:

Partner:

The Farmers' Truck

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Residual white spruce (Picea glauca) growth responses following partial cutting treatments in boreal mixedwoods

The boreal mixedwood forests of the Abitibi region of Quebec are often characterized by a canopy of trembling aspen with shade tolerant species such as white spruce and balsam fir in the subcanopy. In many cases, harvesting has converted complex mixedwoods into simpler, even aged forests. Due to the differences in regeneration and tree growth, the white spruce is often of small merchantable size classes when the trembling aspen is ready for harvesting. Partial cutting is a harvesting method where only some canopy trees are removed while others are retained in various proportions as residual trees. This remaining forest cover can maintain vital ecosystem services and meet silvicultural objectives such as increased timber production. It is thought that by removing some overstorey competition via partial cutting, the residual trees will experience an increase in growth rate. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the growth responses of residual white spruce trees in mixedwood stands where four different proportions of trembling aspen were removed by partial cutting ten years ago. Few studies have evaluated longer term growth responses of residual trees in trembling aspen-white spruce mixedwood stands.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brian Harvey

Student:

Partner:

Rayonier A.M. Canada S.E.N.C.;Coopérative de solidarité en recherche et développement forestier de l’Abitibi-T

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Forestry

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Optimization of oat beverage process for sustainability and high nutrient recovery

Plant-based beverages, originally introduced as cow milk alternatives, have attracted great attention from consumers in recent years due to their sustainability and health benefits. Oat beverages has become one of the most successful commercial products in the Canadian market due to the large oat production, high protein and dietary fiber contents and excellent sensory property. As one of the biggest oat beverage producers in Canada, Earth’s Own devotes significant effort to produce high quality oat beverages with less energy and water. Regarding to this vision, research and renovation are needed to solve some technical challenges. This proposed study will systematically investigate the impact of process temperature, water quality, filtration and protease on the process efficiency and product quality. The knowledge gained from this study will allow the industry to minimize the energy and water input, maximize nutrient recovery and generate less solid waste.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lingyun Chen

Student:

Partner:

Earth's Own Foods

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Life Sciences (not health); Clean Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

A Metrics-Based Approach to Support Sustainable Product Development and Consumption

Sustainable product development adheres to the needs of the present while developing a product without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. This proposal aims to develop a suite of sustainability metrics that can be computed by analyzing data like company website, product material information, etc. The metrics will be integrated into the existing Arbor sustainability product suite via dedicated mobile app and browser extension. The metrics can positively impact the companies and consumers by helping them make informed decisions on how to develop and consume products with sustainability as a key focus, which can then help fight the climate change (e.g., reducing emissions) and supporting everyone (including humans) affected by the changes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gias Uddin

Student:

Partner:

Your Arbor Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Artificial Intelligence; Information and Communications Technology; Technology

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Toxicité résiduelle et stabilité à la digestion de la zéaralenone-14-phosphate chez le porc

Les mycotoxines contaminent principalement les céréales au champ ou au cours de leur stockage. Elles sont toxiques pour l’homme et les animaux. Avec plus de 56% d’échantillons testés positifs en alimentation animale, la zéaralenone est la mycotoxine la plus présente en Amérique du Nord après le déoxynivalenol. La présence de cette mycotoxine dans l’alimentation, même à de très faibles doses, peut notamment conduire à des troubles de la reproduction chez la truie qui est l’animal le plus sensible à ses effets.
Une méthode enzymatique de transformation de la zéaralénone en un produit de phosphorylation (zéaralénone-14-phosphate) par la souche Bacillus sp. S62-W a été récemment décrite. Bien que cette voie présente un grand potentiel pour l’élimination de la ZEN dans les aliments destinés aux animaux de la ferme, la réduction de toxicité de la zéaralénone -14-phosphate par rapport à la zéaralénone n’a pas été prouvée. De même la stabilité de ce produit de biotransformation dans la lumière du tube digestif des animaux de rente reste à établir.
L’objectif général du projet est d’évaluer la toxicité résiduelle de la zéaralénone-14-phosphate et sa stabilité à la digestion.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Imourana Alassane-Kpembi

Student:

Partner:

Lallemand Bio Ingredients

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Life Sciences (not health); Agriculture and Food

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Strategic Analysis: Expanding the Resources of the Refresh Wellness App

Mental health issues are common worldwide and affect people in many ways. In Canada, one in five people are dealing with a mental health disorder. The result of this is high emotional costs to those individuals and their social networks, and high economic costs to the country’s healthcare system.
Refresh Wellness intends to offer a novel approach to preventatively address this ongoing challenge, in Canada and abroad. We are in the process of developing a comprehensive mental wellness platform, the Refresh Wellness App (RWA), that can be used in both individual and workplace settings to monitor and analyze mental health patterns, and generate personalized, research-backed solutions to address them.
The resource section of the app will require preliminary market research before moving to a development stage. Therefore, we are requesting two interns who will carry out a market analysis of the resources already being offered by existing digital mental health platforms. Of those resources that are currently offered, the interns will determine which of those resources have been received well and which ones have not been received well. Additionally, they will identify resources that are presently missing, but are in high demand among people that use these platforms.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raymond Spiteri

Student:

Partner:

Refresh Enterprises Inc.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; New and Digital Media; Social Innovation

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Introducing RWA 2022

Mental health issues are common worldwide and affect people in many ways. In Canada, one in five people are
dealing with a mental health disorder. The result of this is high emotional costs to those individuals and their social
networks, and high economic costs to the country’s healthcare system.
Refresh Wellness intends to offer a novel approach to preventatively address this ongoing challenge, in Canada and
abroad. We are in the process of developing a comprehensive mental wellness platform, the Refresh Wellness App
(RWA), that can be used in both individual and workplace settings to monitor and analyze mental health patterns, and
generate personalized, research-backed solutions to address them.
Refresh is getting ready to release the Refresh Wellness App to the Saskatchewan market. Therefore, we will need to
develop a deliberate roadmap in order to ensure we make a strong entrance. As far as we know, RWA is the first
platform of its kind to be released in Saskatchewan; therefore, the plan to bring it to market will require a fresh
approach, with methods that will work well for this product in Saskatchewan. Along with this, a robust marketing
strategy, innovative branding, and updated organizational processes are essential components. This project aims to
develop executable plans, streamlined processes, and new materials in the above areas that will together assist
RWA’s initial entry into the Saskatchewan market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raymond Spiteri;David Williams

Student:

Partner:

Refresh Enterprises Inc.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; New and Digital Media; Social Innovation

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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