Waterloo Engineering's Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business will launch Canada’s first PhD program for emerging entrepreneurs this fall.
Conrad School's PhD program in entrepreneurship and organization will offer emerging entrepreneurship researchers the opportunity to rigorously study human behaviour and organization with a focus on entrepreneurial contexts. The program's core focus on management and organizations is unlike any other traditional business school doctoral programs offered by Canadian universities.
“Faculty at Conrad know those contexts both matter and can differ in important ways from the traditional view,” said Mark Weber, Conrad School's director. “This new approach to a doctoral program in this domain is both novel and exciting.”
"Waterloo is by far the most successful entrepreneurship university in Canada. We have the biggest university incubator, one of the most successful accelerators in the world. It just makes sense that scholars of entrepreneurship should be trained in this ecosystem, studying what UW does so well,” said Shavin Malhotra, a strategy professor and the PhD program director.
The new doctoral program, and the scholars it will train, will further cement Waterloo’s position as Canada’s leading innovation university, said President and Vice-Chancellor Vivek Goel. “Building upon Waterloo’s rich history of entrepreneurship and its growing start-up ecosystem, the PhD in Entrepreneurship and Organization is another important step towards empowering our community to uncover innovative solutions that will change the world for the better.”
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