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1. Presented by:
Keegan Murphy
and
Karim Sy Morissette

2. Table of Contents
1. Entrepreneurial Culture
2. Incubators & Accelerators
3. Successful Incubators (ROI)
4. Entrepreneurship at Bishop’s
5. Recommendations

3. Data Collection
External
-Articles
-Videos
-Websites
Internal: Interviews
-People of interest at
Bishop’s University
-Open-ended question
-Creating safe platform
to voice thoughts and
opinion

4. Entrepreneurial Culture
“ the mentality of adding value and thinking creatively”
Entrepreneurship (french~entreprendre)
“The capacity and willingness to
develop, organize and manage a
business venture along with any of
risks in order to make profit. The most
obvious example is the starting of a
new business.”
-Business Dictionary
Entrepreneurial Culture
“An entrepreneurial culture is an
environment where someone is
motivated to innovate, create and
take risks. In a business, an
entrepreneurial culture means that
employees are encouraged to
brainstorm new ideas or products.”
-Mihaylo College of Business and
Economics
at California State University, Fullerton

5. Incubators
&
Accelerators

6. Incubators
“An incubator brings in an external management team to
manage an idea that was developed internally.
Those ideas can gestate for much longer periods of time
and the incubator takes a much larger amount of equity ”
- Paul Bricault, Cofounder of Amplify

7. Types of
Incubators

8. Advantages of
Incubators

9. Canadian
Incubators
Top Incubators in
the world (2014)

10. Ryerson
University

11. Ryerson
University
Digital Media Zone

12. Accelerators
“An accelerator takes single-digit chunks of equity in
externally developed ideas in return for small amounts of
capital and mentorship. They’re generally truncated into
a three to four month program at the end of which the
start-ups ‘graduate”
- Paul Bricault, Cofounder of Amplify

13. Babson CollegeThe benchmark for colleges
What makes Babson College special?
The John E. and Alice L. Butler Venture Accelerator
No investment or
claim of equity
Co-curricular programs:
Hands-on projects for
students
Programs and events
Kauffman Foundation as investors

14. Babson
College
The benchmark for colleges
Special Programs & Events
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
B.E.T.A. Challenge: Cash price of $20K
Rocket Pitch: Babson, Olin Engineering and Wellesley College student
entrepreneurs project pitching evening
Summer Venture Programs: 10 week program
Global Entrepreneurship Week
Alumni Entrepreneur Hall-of-Fame
No. 1 in ROI
No.1 College in America according to Money Magazine
Average student salary after 5 year: 60K
90% graduation rate

15. Babson College
The benchmark for colleges
Matthew R. Coffin
CEO and founder of LowerMyBills.com, sold to Experian for $380
million
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award winner in 2007
Southern California Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006
Mir Ibrahim Rahman
Co-founder and CEO of GEO TV Network
Won The Wall Street Journal Award

16. Success Factors
 Organization Faith & Support
 Practical-Learning: Structure
 Student Initiatives and Rewards
 Access to resources
 Mentorship involvement

17. Research Question
- State of
culture
• Research question
• Open ended interviews
• Professors
• Students
• Alumni
• Staff
• Subjective views differ

18. State of Culture
 WSB, BUCS and Dobson Lagassé
 Stems from tight knit community
Strong entrepreneurial spirit
Involvement on campus
 Accessibility of opportunities

19. Dobson Lagassé Centre
 John Oldan brought entrepreneurship to
WSB early 90s
 Co-founded in 1998
 John Dobson
○ John Dobson Foundation
Louis Lagassé
○ Groupe Lagassé

20. Dobson Lagassé
 Vision to integrate French and English
cultures for local development
 David Monty comes in 2006
 Based model of Babson University

21. WSB Curriculum
 SEED Portfolio
 Small interactive classrooms
 Coop program
 > 80 % of classes taught by full time
tenured professors
 50 % of foreign professors
 Emphasis on teamwork

22. BUCS
 Student run organization
 Mandate to support business students
 2015 Canadian Association of Business
Students Rising star award.
 Students can request contribution form
Bankers Day
Wine & Cheese and Career Cocktails
Investment Club
Case competitions

23. Return on Investment
 Tools and skills learned are major
investment
 Creative and critical thinking
 Creating networks, activities and
projects
 Developing strong alumni that increases
life span

24. Enactus
 Founded in 1975
 Formely known as SIFE
 International non for profit organization
fostering entrepreneurial action
 3 pillars
Entrepreneurial—seeing opportunities and
creating value
action—making a sustainable impact
Us—community of students, academic and
business leaders collaborating to create a better
world.

25. Enactus Canada
 Founded in 2000
 Formely ACE
Global rebranding in 2012
 66 campuses across the country
 1600 people employed
 643,026 people impacted

27. Canada USA
Teams 59 446
Students 2,344 16,844
Projects 260 178
Hours Volunteered 225,139 458,349

28. Enactus Worldwide
 36 countries
 1700 universities
 70500 students
 1,950 000 people impacted
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=pOarOq60EBg&spfreload=10

29. Enactus World Cup
 Signature global event
Competition
Collaboration
Celebration
 2014 Champions
 North China Electric Power University

31. Enactus Bishops
 Projects featured at regionals
uConversations
Project Malawi
 Limitations
Lack of resources
 Focus on three segments
○ Entrepreneurial
○ Community
○ Social

32. Uconversations
 Development of app
Integrate events on campus and in
community
Connect alumni with entrepreneurship
students
○ Networking
 In the works for 5 years
 Limited resources

33. Praxis Malawi
 Developing business model for Malawi
community
 Sustainability
Building stone ovens that can be sold to
other communities

34. Global Entrepreneurship Week
 Week to raise awareness and give
confidence to young entrepreneurs
 Worldwide event
Large scale competition
Networking events
November 16 – 22, 2015

35. Projects
 Build a Better Purple
 Bishops Toast Radio
 Dragons Den
 Fashion Show
 Gaiter Squad

36. Build a Better Purple
Raising funds to create a better community
Rebranded in 2012
2 Phases
○ Phase 1
Targets grads to leave legacy behind
“Give a little purple back”
○ Phase 2
Implementation
Grad week

37. Bishop’s Toast Radio
 Project stemming from Build a Better Purple
& Kickstarter account
 Successful launch
17 % of school population listening
Gait happy hour almost at capacity
 Nearly 4,000 streams in first week
 Listeners in 16 countries worldwide
Facebook: Bishop’
s Toast Radio
Twitter: @butoastradio
Instagram: @butoastradio

38. Dragons Den
 Action plan for BMG 320
 4 projects competing
 $500 reward for winner
 Strong networking and development
event

39. Fashion Show
 5th
show this year
 Major charity and social event
 Lennoxville Youth Centre
$18,000
 One X One
$11,000

40. Gaiter Squad
 Promotional team for BU athletics
 Stemmed from BMK 355
 Creating an experience and increasing
atmosphere
 Limited reward and looking for
replacement
No continuity

41. Student Initiatives
 Rylan Schwarze
Ry Guy Magic
 Jay Chen
Applyedu.org
 Peter & Anthony
Symbio

42. Departments Projects & Events
Chemistry
Arches Brewery
Computer Science
Que Innovation
University
Bootcamp
Top 10 after 10 (H.O.F.)
Quebec Universities English
Undergraduate Conference (QUEUC)
Arts/English/Humanities
Bishop’s University Film Festival
Debates
Dr. Riddell’s BU Channel (YouTube)
TEDxBishopsU
Sports
Final Four
Baggataway Cup

43. Department Projects
Que Innovation – Dr.
Tammy Salter
Committed to provide
simple functioning
devices
 Well crafted with
genius design
Development of
superior products
serving purpose
- Que ball
Other Information
Employs Bishop’s top
computer science
students
Dobson-Lagasse as a
resource

44. Support Systems
 Financial
 Programs
 BUCS – Dobson Lagasse Centre

45. Financial Support
 Scholarships
Entry
Deans & named
 Lead the Way
 Funds
B.E.S.T
Experiential Learning Internship Grant
Fund (ELIGF)

46. Programs
• Tomlinson
• The Next 36
• Lecture Series
• Donald
• Ted
• Morris House

47. Limitations of BU State
 University’s Mission is unclear throughout
departments
 Top-down managing structure that is outdated
 Limited (outdated) Curriculum
 Communication between departments & Support
 Access to Resources
 Student Attitude
 Longevity of Initiatives (Stagnating Cycle)
 Success Recognition

48. Elements to Improve
“All Universities need to embrace
communication and entrepreneurship or
they’ll die.”
- Interviewee
“Their support has been great, but It’s not a
one or two men job.”`
- Interviewee

49. Solutions
 Marketing Entrepreneurship SEED
equivalent
Marketing Entrepreneurship Series
 Add value to programs, WSB and DLC
 Backed by multiple professors and
students
 Enable conference with lecture series

50. Solutions
 Communication improvement
 Bishop’s Toast Radio
Hub integrating departments around school
Efficient communications
Better networks

51. Solutions
 Top down, traditional style
 Needs to be more responsive
 Adhere to student needs
 Enable change to outdate curriculum
 Have to be open to transition

52. Thank You
 Comments
 Questions