1. 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

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

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

5. www.THECIS.ca INTEGRITY – INDEPENDENCE - QUALITY 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

6. www.THECIS.ca INTEGRITY – INDEPENDENCE - QUALITY 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?

7. www.THECIS.ca INTEGRITY – INDEPENDENCE - QUALITY 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

8. www.THECIS.ca INTEGRITY – INDEPENDENCE - QUALITY 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 INTEGRITY – INDEPENDENCE - QUALITY www.thecis.ca/IandE