This presentation was part of the Growing Entrepreneurial Communities Summit, a practitioner-focused summit designed to help economic development and small business practitioners effectively create economic growth through entrepreneurship in local communities. The 2018 Summit, subtitled Entrepreneurship on the Edges, focused on providing information and practitioner insight in how to effectively develop disadvantaged urban and rural communities using entrepreneurship-led development strategies.

1. “Older and Bolder”
Senior Entrepreneurs Aged 50+
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21st Century’s New Economic Engines
Driving Economies Locally and Globally
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People 50+ are the one natural resource
that’s abundant, local, powerful, growing
and hidden in plain sight.

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“The Age of Experience”
Innovation contextualized in experience gets
quicker traction, scales faster and is more
sustainable.

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Experience Is the New
Competitive Advantage

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“We are living in an age where retirement is
more likely to involve a shift in gears rather
than putting the brakes on.”
Source: Wendy Loretto, University of Edinburgh

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Jill Kertula

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Judi Henderson-Townsend
“Mannequin Madness”

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Finally found her dream as a tech designer for
IDEO in Silicon Valley at age 91.
Barbara Beskind

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Cross-Generational Experience

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"We don't stop playing because we
get old. We get old because we
stop playing!”
George Bernard Shaw, Playwright and Co-Founder, London
School of Economics