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If you’re a founder working on deep-tech innovations, CDL can connect you with world-class mentors, scientists, and investors to accelerate your startup. The 9-month CDL program runs from October to June and is currently accepting applications for its upcoming program year.

Creative Destruction Lab is launching a specialized Health stream to support cutting-edge digital health, diagnostic and device-based startups developing technologies that collect, use and deploy health data to address emerging needs in human health.

The new Advanced Therapies stream brings together four top institutions, as well as a partnership between CDL and CCRM, a leader in developing and commercializing cell and gene therapies

The Oxford Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) has relaunched its Senior School Girls Programme, following a hiatus owing to the pandemic.

Girls aged 16-18 from Oxfordshire schools have been paired with CDL mentors to observe meetings between the mentors and venture founders at a CDL session.

He was recognized for his contributions as a scholar, mentor, and entrepreneur to enhance Canada's productivity, competitiveness, and prosperity through innovation and entrepreneurship including his initiatives as the founder of the Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School and co-founder of Next Canada.

Hosted by ESMT Berlin, Germany’s No. 1 business school, CDL’s newest site is where Europe’s most vibrant startup landscape intersects with a world-class life-science research ecosystem

The global CDL community across 10 locations will come together virtually for two days of learning, discussion and celebration

Web3 is a paradigm shift in the internet as we know it. CDL-Montreal is at the forefront with the new Web3 stream, for startups using blockchain technologies to break ground in the areas of decentralized finance, decentralized organizations and the gaming industry

It is a path down which the most celebrated minds in history have stumbled – even Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb and other household devices, rashly predicted alchemy becoming possible within a century.

Which is why Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) does not deal in crystal balls. Rather the Lab – which was founded in Toronto in 2012 and brought to the School in 2019 – is a non-profit provider of programmes to nurture seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies, enhancing their chances of commercial success through expert-led mentoring initiatives.

Amid global demand, supply chain issues as well as shifting political and regulatory landscapes, CDL-Seattle is recruiting startups in the field of advanced manufacturing aimed at disrupting production as we know it

In the midst of a digital transformation precipitated by a global pandemic, CDL is launching a specialized stream to advance core enabling technologies that will have the impact of the printing press, personal computer or internet.