MeRCMcMaster eBusiness Research Centre

MeRC industry partners

Funding: private donations, scholarships and bursaries, government grants, industry donations, research contracts, IP commercialization and consortium memberships.

Canadian Pacific e-business classroom

  • Donation: CDN $175,000 from the Canadian Pacific Charitable Foundation.
  • Result: an e-business teaching room seating 40 students.
  • Equipment: 20 networked high-speed workstations and three servers.
  • Opened for classes in September 2000.

GE Fund bursaries

  • Gift: $125,000 ($75,000 US) for MBA electronic commerce stream bursaries.
  • Plan: 10 bursaries of $3,000 a year for three consecutive years.
  • Name: The GE Fund Graduate Bursary in Electronic Commerce.
  • Criteria: leadership and financial need.

ORNEC

  • Founders: Carleton, McMaster, Ottawa, Queen's, the ORDCF and forty companies.
  • Clusters: communications technologies, business and administration, legal and ethical issues.
  • Flagship project: identity theft.

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