Monday, June 10, 2013
Following on the New York Times naming the University of Waterloo “one of the world’s best technology schools”, the university continues to build its reputation for entrepreneurship internationally with USA Today referring to the area as a “the most vibrant start-up community in Canada” and Venture Beat reporting on the area’s “very high proportion of startups to population” and “unique” academic/industrial mentoring partnership. The Financial Post drew attention to Engineering successes including Thalmic Labs and BufferBox, concluding: “Where can you hire the best engineers and keep them? There [is] no better location than Waterloo.”