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Waterloo's incubator residence
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University Affairs
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May 1, 2008
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- Charbonneau, LÃ; ©; o
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Copyright informationCopyright Assn of Universities & Colleges of Canada May 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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There's never been anything quite like it in Canada: the University of Waterloo is setting aside its smallest student residence to serve as an "ideas incubator" filled with entrepreneurially inclined students. Starting in September, the 72 students picked to live in the university's Minota Hagey Residence will work together to imagine the future of mobile communications, the web and new media.
One of the residence lounges will be turned into a corporate boardroom, another into a project lab, and the main common area will double as a presentation and events area. Throughout the fall term, the "dormcubator" - as one IT magazine dubbed it - will host guest speakers, workshops and an ...