1. Business Development Centre
Nov 13, 2012

2.  Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
 Approx. 8,000 students
 Sobey School of Business approx. 3,000
students
 No engineering or medicine faculties

3.  Mandate
 Experiential Learning
 Community Outreach
• Means
 Entrepreneurship
 Outcomes
 More engaged students
 Higher employment readiness
 Informal-graduates pursuing entrepreneurship

4.  Started as a consulting course
 Consulting Service
 Training Provider
 Student Entrepreneurship
 Became a Business Service provider
 Looking for next initiative
 Innovation focus
 Accelerator
 Knowledge transfer

5.  Create critical mass
 Approach
 Curricular
 Co-curricular
 Extra-curricular
 Intensity / Reach
 Awareness
 Skills development for large groups
 Support for high achievers

6.  Curricular
 Business
 6 courses – one of which is delivered by myself
 3 faculty
 Co-curricular
 Competitions
 Extra-curricular
 Societies
 Employment

7.  Training 600
 Consulting 100
 Coaching 20

8.  Resources
 Dualmandates
 Few patents