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    National Data Platform works to analyze growth of expanding companies

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    National Data Platform works to analyze growth of expanding companies

    Wilfrid Laurier Universityโ€™s Lazaridis School of Business and Economics is working with HockeyStick to create a data platform to track the growth metrics of Canadian companies. The National Data Platform has secured $2.5 million dollars in federal funding to help benefit Canadian businesses. The data platform will assist with companiesโ€™ day-to-day operations. It will also…

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    WLU’s Lazaridis institute chooses participants for Canadian Scale-Up program

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    WLU’s Lazaridis institute chooses participants for Canadian Scale-Up program

    Wilfrid Laurier Universityโ€™s Lazaridis Institute recently unveiled the ten technology ventures chosen to participate in its launch of the Canadian Scale-Up Program. The program began over the summer with a cross-Canada roadshow, where presentations were given in major cities to the respective regionsโ€™ most promising technology companies. When applications closed on Sept. 16, the program…

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    Back to school albums

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    Back to school albums

    Feelin Kinda Free โ€” The Drones For when the school year feels like an endless dirge of curveballs and chaos, leave it to Australian avant-garde outfit, The Drones, to put you in the right mindset to see it through. Feelin Kinda Free is a menacingly skittish rock saga that feels near impossible to pin down…

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  • The Lazaridis Institute seeks out the ten best ventures in the country

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    The Lazaridis Institute seeks out the ten best ventures in the country

    The Lazaridis Institute for the Management of Technology Enterprises is currently on a cross-Canada quest to seek out the ten best ventures in the country to join the first cohort of the Lazaridis Institute Scale Up Program. The institute was created to work within the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University,…

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