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Emerson Electric Sustainability Project

Working directly with the Innovation Team, and under the general direction of the Director of Growth & Business Transformation, the individual will contribute to research analysis, innovation hypothesis testing, program development execution, and presentations to senior leaders within the organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Medcof

Student:

Partner:

Emerson Electric

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Account Coordinator (Co-op Intern)

The intern will assist our project managers with completing tasks associated with projects we are completing for our clients, the pharmaceutical companies, which involves providing sources of communication between the client to the patients and physicians.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Medcof

Student:

Partner:

The Adpharm

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Brass Dome Ventures – Technology Transfer and Commercialization

The BSI will be placed at Brass Dome Ventures, an Edmonton-based management consulting firm. The BSI will be placed on a consulting project with the University of Alberta’s Research and Innovation portfolio, specifically within the newly formed Technology Transfer Services Unit (“TTS”). Brass Dome Ventures has been engaged by the University of Alberta to enhance technology transfer and deliver a new commercialization program at the University of Alberta. The BSI position will be responsible for assisting in the management of files associated with technology licensing, technology transfer, and commercialization activities. The BSI position will focus on marketing the University’s technological innovations to various audiences. The project will help create better opportunities for the University of Alberta’s research, innovation, and technology to reach the broader Canadian public, thereby providing numerous social and economic benefits. While the BSI will be working across a wide range of sectors, the University’s key research strengths include agriculture, artificial intelligence, energy, environment & climate change, health, nanotechnology, science & technology, smart transportation, building, & devices, and society & culture.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Maier

Student:

Partner:

Brass Dome Ventures Ltd.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Thrive Thrift Shop

Thrive Community Support Circle, formerly known as Pregnancy Distress Service & Family Support Services has developed a substantial presence in Winnipeg’s inner-city. They have a therapy department, a resource centre, a childcare centre and a thrift shop, where I will be working. In the thrift shop I will be helping to increase revenue through creating awareness to potential customers with marketing. I will be a part of the marketing committee where we will be looking into how to bring new customers into the store from different demographics. I will also be looking into the cost of creating a new exciting brochure for the store as well as the possibility of rebranding with a slightly different name and a new logo. Lastly I will be researching the cost and development of a “Sponsor a Thriver” website to give back to the store’s volunteers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Olya Bryksina

Student:

Partner:

Thrive Thrift Shop

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Winnipeg

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Branding and Marketing Associate

The work will focus on finalizing Africa Trade Desk’s corporate messaging since the company is re-branding and creating an Ecosystem. The overall messaging to Africa Trade Desk’s potential members is undergoing a revision, this will be one of the key activities. As well as, creating a dedicated marketing strategy to be developed and implemented for the summits. The design and delivery of the summits as well as the social media marketing campaigns will be the other areas included in the internship scope. This will help Africa Trade desk in establishing a template to be used to get Canadian companies to real profitable business opportunities to a market that is expected to grow. This will help reduce the Canada-Africa trade deficit while improving thousands of lives by providing jobs and economic growth in a sustainable way. The message to finalise is Trade not Aid.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Howard Nemiroff

Student:

Partner:

Africa Trade Desk

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Wholesale trade

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Program Management project with NTwist

The project involves collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to streamline the various processes for effective project delivery ultimately contributing to offering the services and products to clients in a more professional manner and helping solve business problems in the process. The project also helps in better understanding of AI in the context of industrial automation. The project also aims at incorporating project management best practices in the partner organization and help it align and utilize its own resources and business processes in the best way possible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Maier

Student:

Partner:

NTwist

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Business Strategy Intern

AME Learning Inc. (AME) is a 20-year old leader in providing Accounting and Financial Literacy Education in higher education. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, AME Learning must adjust its strategic direction to place more emphasis on revenue generation and growth beyond the higher education market and into the online eBusiness Learner space. Specifically, AME Learning has plans to relaunch “Accounting 101” and “Finance for Non-Financial Managers” online courses through direct marketing as well as through e-distribution partnerships with online course aggregators (resellers), corporate training, and direct-to-consumer learners. This project’s final deliverable is a revised strategic plan and pitch deck, including Go-To-Market plan, 3-year sales projections, ROI and other financial projections.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yolande Chan

Student:

Partner:

AME Learning

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Manitoba Social Investment Fund

Wakopa Financial, along with other social enterprise ecosystem players, is looking to create a Social Finance Fund specifically for Manitoba. The fund could consist of loans, equity investments, simple agreements for future equity (SAFE), revenue-sharing agreements and other financial instruments to help finance socially oriented businesses, co-ops and non-profits. I will be helping create the necessary documents to start such a fund, with the help of ecosystem players, by answering some of these questions:
Re: Investments
1. What are the types of projects/investments that would be eligible?
2. What types of investment tools can be used? Eg. Debt, Equity,
3. What is the projected volume and size of eligible investment projects?
Re: Investors
1. Who might be potential investors, what would their size of investment be, and what would their expectations be for ROI? How will the SFI reach these investors?
2. What other Impact Investment funds could the new entity considered to complement the Federal Funds?
3. What is the estimated dollar value of the funds that the new entity could reasonably expect to attract? Local – Manitoba National – Canada
4. How can the Community Enterprise Development Tax Credit be used?
Re: Operating Expenses
1. What are the estimated costs to maintain an SFI in Manitoba?
2. What is the minimum level of investment dollars from the Federal Social Finance Fund and/or all investments that would be required to cover the set-up costs and jump-start the SFI?

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jie Zhou

Student:

Partner:

Wakopa Financial

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Winnipeg

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Impact Evaluation and Developmental Evaluation Planning with a Community- Based Not-for-Profit Organisation Focussed on Poverty Reduction

The purpose of this project is to assist a community non-profit organisation to build a comprehensive plan to evaluate its poverty reduction initiatives and activities. The agency partners with other non-profit agencies as well as with government partners, other stakeholders, and persons with lived/living experience. The purpose of the project is also to develop a set of common/shared measures of progress amongst several agencies as a demonstration project that will be evaluated to determine its utility across agencies and potentially within government to enhance collaboration and improve reporting.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marguerite Ternes

Student:

Partner:

Cabot Consulting and Research Services

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Accelerate

BIM (Building Information Modelling) and Supply Chain Planning inConstruction

In this project, we will consider construction supply chain management SCM within the context of BIM. The objective is to provide an automated BIM-based platform for construction supply chain planning. Using automatic data extraction from a BIM file, we will develop sophisticated supply chain optimization models that fit the reality of construction projects. Here, the critical decisions for CSC planning (strategic, tactical) are conducted in the early phase of planning based on data provided by BIM. In this way, it is possible to interact with the designer very rapidly for revisions, and finally, provide more precise estimation for budget and project schedule. The innovation of our approach is that CSCM will be easily integrated into the design phase, offering the possibility to increase collaboration between designers and construction supply chain stockholders, which is one of the critical challenges in managing complex projects in construction.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amin Chaabane;Marc Paquet

Student:

Partner:

SynQ

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Identifying leading safety culture improvement practices to drive innovation to assist in the prevention of workplace injuries

When safety critical organizations develop safety culture improvement strategies they are rarely shared widely outside the organization as there is limited benefit in sharing with others. In contrast to healthcare there is not a tradition of publishing safety improvements in journals or professional magazines. When innovations are shared externally, the description is often sanitized and does not contain then challenges encountered and missteps. In addition, consultancy companies provide a large proportion of the widely shared safety innovations, as they wish to promote their services. Since many safety critical companies struggle with similar challenges in promoting a positive safety culture, it is likely that they are independently developing solutions to the same problems. Phase 1 of this research will address this gap by conducting a series of case studies on safety culture improvement initiatives. These case studies will provide insight into how safety critical companies are trying to improve safety culture. This information will assist organizations in identifying strategies to improve.
Safety leadership is key driver of safety culture, as leaders set the tone for safety. While organizations commit significant resources to safety leadership training, there is less evidence of its effectiveness.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Fleming

Student:

Partner:

Emera

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Utilities

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a High Efficiency LC-FAIMS-MS/MS Solution for Enhanced Lipidomic Analysis

Accurate and sensitive analysis of lipids is a challenge for the medical and nutritional fields. In this proposal, we describe a new method for their analysis using a technique seldom applied to these problems. We propose to make a number of modifications to existing instrumentation to facilitate this; in partnership with Dalhousie and the Atlantic Cancer Research Institute, an MASc student will lead the evaluation of several prototypes to optimize the analysis of complex lipid mixtures. In demonstrating its utility in this application, we will expand the user group of this novel platform and we anticipate this having a substantial impact on the commercial value and uptake of this technology in the scientific community.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Suzanne Budge

Student:

Partner:

Atlantic Cancer Research Institute

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

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Mitacs is funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, Innovation PEI, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan, and the Government of Yukon.