To transform and grow our communities through entrepreneurship
Navigate graduates and clients leading vibrant startups that create local jobs and wealth
2004
Gateway West opens at Grenfell College, Memorial University
2009
Gateway West at Grenfell College provided business development expertise to entrepreneurs from the western region and helped create 18 new viable businesses. (Memorial University annual report 2009-2010)
2011
Renamed the Navigate Entrepreneurship Centre. Significant change in programming as business advising services were offered for the first time to students, faculty, staff and alumni at CNA. Navigate still remains the only Entrepreneurship Centre in Canada that exits as a partnership between a university and a college.
2013
Launch of the “Entrepreneurs of Western Newfoundland” video series:
2018
Navigate Business Incubator and Makerspace open at CNA-Corner Brook and Grenfell Campus
2020
4 companies graduate from the Business Incubator
2023
Opening of a new Innovation Centre which houses the Incubator and Makerspace