{"id":1228,"date":"2021-11-16T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2025-03-03T14:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:16:34","slug":"carleton-partners-with-startup-accelerator-l-spark-to-support-student-experiential-learning-and-industry-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/2021\/carleton-partners-with-startup-accelerator-l-spark-to-support-student-experiential-learning-and-industry-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton partners with startup accelerator L-SPARK to support student experiential learning and industry networking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton partners with startup accelerator L-SPARK to support student experiential learning and industry networking\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Carleton University\u2019s new Innovation Hub<\/a> is partnering with Canadian startup accelerator L-SPARK<\/a> to provide hands-on opportunities to students that give them access to resources and expertise to help them meet the challenges of tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cL-SPARK is home to some of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada,\u201d says Innovation Hub Director Harry Sharma.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThis partnership allows our students and their ventures to participate in the L-SPARK ecosystem and benefit from its network of seasoned executives, coaches, mentors and investors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The experiential learning opportunity will see students networking with industry experts. Carleton\u2019s aspiring leaders and change makers will get critical hands-on experience with entrepreneurship and business scale-up, as well as find meaningful employment opportunities in rapidly growing industry sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left to right: Dana Brown, Dean, Carleton’s Sprott School of Business; Leo Lax, Managing Director, L-SPARK; Jerry Tomberlin, Provost, Carleton University; Josh Campbell, Program Officer, Carleton Innovation Hub; Harry Sharma, Director, Carleton Innovation Hub.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Establishing a pathway to engage students has benefits for the pioneering startup accelerator as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor L-SPARK, it provides access to talent and entrepreneurially-minded graduates who can apply their leadership and communication skills, in addition to their technical skills, to address global opportunities,\u201d says Sharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are honoured to partner with incredible institutions like Carleton University and the Innovation Hub, who are helping to shape the next generation of leaders in our community and beyond\u201d, says Leo Lax, Executive Managing Director of L-SPARK.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cWe look forward to exploring the new and innovative ideas emerging from our partnership and supporting the creation of a new wave of groundbreaking Canadian companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The partnership is well placed to leverage Carleton\u2019s competitive location in the nexus of national public policy expertise and cutting-edge technology research. The Innovation Hub will launch \u201cpolicy sandboxes\u201d to look at the innovation aspects of some of the most pertinent issues of the day\u2014such as 5G networks, data and privacy laws, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese sandboxes will bring together public and private sectors to collaborate with Carleton faculty and students,\u201d says Sharma. \u201cThese cross-sector teams will help develop scenarios and recommendations to make Canada a global leader in the knowledge economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carleton University\u2019s new Innovation Hub is partnering with Canadian startup accelerator L-SPARK to provide hands-on opportunities to students that give them access to resources and expertise to help them meet the challenges of tomorrow. \u201cL-SPARK is home to some of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada,\u201d says Innovation Hub Director Harry Sharma. \u201cThis partnership allows our students and their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}