IC MTL

A joint venture between Dawson College and Cégep du Vieux Montréal, iC MTL is part of a five year plan:

•to develop an entrepreneurial ecosystem for the creative and cultural sector entrepreneurs;
•to build Quebec’s creative economy;
•to contribute to Quebec’s economic vitality.

Creative and cultural entrepreneurs often have to make do with very little support that meets their unique needs as founders of medium to high growth ventures. Many creative individuals are highly skilled in their domains but have fewer of the skills required to start and manage a new venture. A handful of organizations in Montreal do provide individual support for artists, makers and designers but are limited to helping the self-employed creative entrepreneur or small ventures. By comparison, Montreal’s entrepreneurial ecosystem provides resources to support the tech sector with a variety of activities and services such as accelerators, boot camps, networking events, workshops and startup weekends. Presently, there are no incubators or accelerators supporting creative entrepreneurship in Montreal. Dawson College and Cégep du Vieux Montréal are joining forces to bridge this gap in the creative and cultural sectors by providing substantial support in the form of a combined instructional and pre-incubation program. By creative and cultural industries we mean advertising, architecture, crafts, design, film, photography and video, interactive leisure software, music, performing arts, publishing, television and radio, visual arts, gastronomy