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INTEGRITY – INDEPENDENCE - QUALITY Education for Innovation and Entrepreneurship In partnership with the Bissett School, MRU, Haskayne School, U of C and Calgary Technologies December 13 2010

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Education for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In partnership with the Bissett School, MRU, Haskayne School, U of C and Calgary Technologies December 13 2010. Workshop Objectives. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Education for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

INTEGRITY – INDEPENDENCE - QUALITY

Education for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

In partnership with the Bissett School, MRU, Haskayne

School, U of C and Calgary Technologies

December 13 2010

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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 .

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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.

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