eHUB Entrepreneurship Centre

As the University of Alberta’s Entrepreneurship Centre, eHUB provides students with collaborative and interdisciplinary educational opportunities to enhance the entrepreneurial skills, capacities and impact of our youth, thus enabling Alberta’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems to grow and flourish.

About eHUB

Transformative. We believe that entrepreneurial skills and capacities enable our young people to become more creative, confident and compassionate leaders better able to take charge of their careers and have an impact on the world.

Impactful. The entrepreneurial mindset is valuable for those that want to create new high-impact ventures and engage in social innovation to address global challenges. This skill set makes young people more valuable as employees that can make change happen in all organizational settings—from large corporations and public agencies to startups and nonprofits.

Interdisciplinary experiential opportunities

We are at the forefront of developing a rich, interdisciplinary and cross-faculty culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across the University of Alberta. With curricular and co-curricular experiential education and student development, we combine solid business fundamentals — through offerings like our undergraduate and graduate certificates in innovation and entrepreneurship — with a mentored learning environment and strong partnership networks. 

World-class research

Our scholarly excellence in entrepreneurship and innovation provides the core foundation for all our initiatives. Our research is world-renowned, and we are proud to support leading entrepreneurial scholarship through our collaboration in the prestigious West Coast Research Symposium with Stanford University, University of Oregon, University of Southern California and the University of Washington.

Community engagement 

Our eHUB Ideas Lab, empowered by the Alberta School of Business, provides a safe, dynamic, and flexible space within HUB Mall. It is available for students from all faculties to explore and learn about entrepreneurship and innovation within a more interdisciplinary, guided, and collaborative environment. With a focus on experiential education, which provides a practical extension of the classroom, the eHUB Ideas Lab is a staffed, physical space in the University of Alberta's HUB mall where students have access to expertise, mentorship and partner networks as they create, develop, and launch new ideas, companies and social ventures.

Leveraging the University of Alberta's core research and teaching strengths in entrepreneurship and innovation with University-wide expertise in arts, business, sciences, engineering, medicine, agriculture, business and more, the eHUB Ideas Lab scales student initiatives across faculties, and translates them into new opportunities for Albertans. We have supported hundreds of cross-faculty, entrepreneurial student teams, helping them develop their ideas and raise money to support their ventures.

eHUB Creative, a partnership with the Faculty of Arts, expands our ideas lab programming by actively supporting the development of more creative and cultural forms of entrepreneurship. 

VCPE & VCIC - eHUB is also home to the UAlberta Venture Capital & Private Equity (VCPE) Club, as well as the undergraduate and MBA Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) teams.