# MeRC industry partners

> MeRC industry partners: the CDN $175,000 Canadian Pacific e-business classroom, GE Fund MBA bursaries worth $3,000 each and the ORNEC research network.

Page URL: https://merc-mcmaster.ca/about-us/industry/

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.