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Education for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop - Enhancing Alberta's Ecosystem

Join the workshop on December 13, 2010, to collaborate with organizations offering entrepreneurial education in Alberta. Share experiences and ideas to improve program impact. Explore knowledge sharing, ecosystem measurement, and the importance of fostering passion in entrepreneurship.

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Education for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop - Enhancing Alberta's Ecosystem

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  1. Education for Innovation and Entrepreneurship In partnership with the Bissett School, MRU, Haskayne School, U of C and Calgary Technologies December 13 2010

  2. Workshop Objectives • To bring together a representative cross section of the organizations that offer entrepreneurial and innovation education in Alberta to share their experiences; • To share ideas for improving the impact of these programs .

  3. Agenda - 1 • 8:30 Introduction • 8:40 Opening keynotes • 9:45 BREAK • 10:15 Graduates remarks, Chair – Alex Bruton • 11:00 Current Alberta programs, Chair - Sandra Malach • 12:00 LUNCH

  4. Agenda - 2 • 1:30 Current Alberta programs, Chair - Peter Josty • 3:00 BREAK • 3:30 Panel discussion, Chair – Alex Bruton • 4:30 Rapporteur – Cooper Langford • 4:45 Reception, networking • 5:30 Close

  5. Rapporteur….1 Knowledge - Tacit or codified? (know what vs how-who) (tacit is key) - There is no prescription - Guidance not teaching - Share knowledge - Importance of the cohort - It takes a village 5

  6. Rapporteur..2 Ecosystem is important - Can we measure outcomes - need this to set goals - Alberta government has multi-ingredient system to support - In innovation ecosystems - coordinate roles - Is education on target? Is it the receptor system that’s weak? 6

  7. Rapporteur…3 Other messages - Entrepreneurship - passion and hard work, not money driven- What level of entrepreneurship? - Educate for innovation - beyond the firm founders in entrepreneurship 7

  8. Rapporteur…4 • Programs • - At all levels: talk to customers; talk to successful entrepreneurs. • - AB has programs at all levels: ‘primary school’ to PhD. • F/T, P/T, short, on-demand. • - Content isues to consider: mindset & experience; self-organized learning; framework to achieve leaps in understanding. • A course can operate over spectrum: self-org. to structured. • SIFE lesson: Never unerestimate the students.

  9. www.thecis.ca/IandE

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