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Dear Colleagues,

This is just a brief note to let you know that the second public lecture of Simon Fraser University's Dream Colloquium on Entrepreneurship "Looking for Entrepreneurial Opportunities in All the Usual (and Some Unusual) Places," is scheduled for this Friday January 31 from 15:00-16:30 PST.

It will feature Scott Stern, the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology and Chair of the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management speaking on the topic of "Entrepreneurial Strategy:  A New Agenda for Start-Up Innovation." The talk will be hosted and facilitated by Professor Elicia Maine, Academic Chair of the MOT MBA Program at the Beedie School of Business. Like all public lectures in the Dream Colloquium series, it will be webcast live at the following address,

http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/events/dreamcolloquium/DreamColloquium-Spring2014/ScottStern.html

For those of you who missed Mike Wright's January 17th talk on "Entrepreneurship in and Around Universities" video of the event is archived at the following address.

http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/events/dreamcolloquium/DreamColloquium-Spring2014/MikeWright.html

Further information on the Dream Colloquium, including details concerning future public lectures can be found here,

http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/events/dreamcolloquium/DreamColloquium-Spring2014.html

Best Wishes,

Eric Gedajlovic 

Beedie Professer of Strategy and Entrepreneurship,

Beedie School of Business,

Simon Fraser University. 

Hello Colleagues,

I'd like to bring to your attention, the President's Dream Colloquium on Entrepreneurship entitled "Looking for Entrepreneurial Opportunities in All the Usual (and Some Unusual) Places,"  that we are running over the next several months at Simon Fraser University and the Beedie School of Business.

The Dream Colloquium features public lectures by world-class speakers on various topics pertaining to; 1) Entrepreneurial Thinking Within and Across Contexts, 2) Technological Entrepreneurship 3) Financing Entrepreneurship, 4) Social Entrepreneurship, 5) Cultural Entrepreneurship and 6) Entrepreneurship in Aboriginal Communities.

Our first public lecture will be delivered by Mike Wright, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School and Director of the Centre for Management Buy-out Research on the topic of "Entrepreneurship in and Around Universities."

Professor Wright's public lecture will be webcast live on Friday January 17, from 15:00 - 16:30 PST at the following address

http://www.irmacs.sfu.ca/about/live-video

          

In the coming weeks, the following public lectures will also be broadcast live.

·         Speaker: Scott Stern, Science and Technology Entrepreneurship, January 31

·         Speaker: Saul Estrin, BMO Public Lecture: "National Contexts: What Makes Different Entrepreneurs Thrive?," February 20

·         Speaker: Andrew Harries, "Early Stage Finance: An Entrepreneur's Perspective," February 21

·         Speaker: Jonathan Lewis, "What Makes Social Entrepreneurship Social?," March 7

·         Speaker: Kate Oakley, "Good work? Rethinking Cultural Entrepreneurship," March 21

·         Speaker: Robert Miller, "The Role of Entrepreneurship in Achieving Sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples,"  April 4

For additional information on the President's Dream Colloquium on Entrepreneurship series, please see the attached informational poster or visit our website at: http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/events/dreamcolloquium/DreamColloquium-Spring2014.html

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