CBaSE & Innovation Guelph

About CBaSE: Housed within the College of Business and Economics and located in the newly renovated Macdonald Hall, The Centre for Business and Student Enterprise (CBaSE) is the home of entrepreneurship at the University of Guelph CBaSE shares a multidisciplinary co-working space where students and youth entrepreneurs can access on-campus business support and advisory services to turn their ideas into successful businesses. At CBaSE we approach entrepreneurship as a daily practice rather than a discipline. We are committed to offering access to entrepreneurial thinking and experiential learning which challenges the status quo.

CBaSE enables collaboration with the local community and offers programs that have the potential to transform students' understanding of their disciplines, world-views and abilities. From these experiences, students are also given the opportunity to master disciplinary knowledge and develop essential skills and attitudes for life and career success.

CBaSE acts as the gateway between the business school, the University of Guelph campus, and the surrounding Guelph community, facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration and real-world experience.

About Innovation Guelph: Innovation Guelph is working to build prosperity for community wellbeing by providing mentorship and business support programs and services to help innovative enterprises start, grow and thrive.

Our clients are start-ups and small- and medium-sized enterprises from across southern Ontario that want to bring new ideas to market, solve business challenges and maximize opportunities.

We help our clients achieve their goals through a suite of novel business acceleration programs, including Speedway™, the Rhyze Project and BCorp Bootcamp. We also serve as a one-stop point of access to Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs (ONE) programs and resources.

In this way, we fuel an innovation ecosystem of entrepreneurs, business leaders, researchers, investors and community partners to drive economic growth, support environmental sustainability and enhance the quality of life for everyone in our region.