Speaker Peter Hofstra discusses the notion that advanced education means specialization. Do years of advanced learning ultimately narrow the scope of career opportunities or produce skills that are applicable to a great diversity of occupations? More information, including webcast: http://www.marsdd.com/Events/Event-Calendar/Ent101/2008/Science-and-business-do-mix-20080430.html

1. Entrepreneurship 101
MaRS Center
April 30, 2008

2. Is Specialization Limiting or
Empowering?
 Cost/Benefit analysis of education.
 Personal experience: mine and others.
 Observations from an unexpected career path.
 Summary.
 To specialize or not to specialize?

3. What is Education:
 Up to and including undergraduate you’re
assimilating known information.
 Getting up to speed with the current state of the art.
 Demonstrating capacity to apply new
knowledge/tools – critical thinking.
 Given the vast information known, a narrow focus is
required to achieve “state of the art” knowledge.
 To make an original contribution (graduate studies)
an even narrower focus is required.