Our programs target all priority areas of the Canada's National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS). Check out for yourself and find the program that best fits your needs:
Shackleton
Incubator
DaVinci
Learning Center
UBC NAME
Grand Challenges
Got an Idea? We will help you create a venture out of it.
At Shackleton Incubator, we help innovators, entrepreneurs and maritime-related startups by providing expert advice, mentorship, and funding opportunities.
Our proprietary platform enables startups to easily showcase their potentials to our industry supporters who in turn can engage with scalable startups for collaboration and unique investment opportunities.
Want a more innovative workers?
Let's take out their inned DaVinci
Innovation can be taught.
We will help your employees develop their inner DaVinci and
become your next generation of intrapreneurs.
You can enroll your employees in our standalone training programs or you can sponsor a DaVinci project which integrates a problem solving
project for your organization with hands-on innovation training.
Got an industry challenge you want to tackle? We can help solve that.
Our UBC Grand Challenge program is designed to help industries solve their problems
while supporting the maritime talent development in Canada.
Modelled after Georgia Tech's ASDL Grand Challenge, our UBC Grand Challenge program adresses one of the major industry problems in an intense research-proposal project during graduate student's studies.