President’s Dream Colloquium on
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Simon Fraser University • Spring 2014
FREE Public Lectures Fridays 3–4:30 pm | SFU Burnaby, IRMACS Theatre, ASB 10900
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PU BL IC L ECTU RE
VA NCOU VER
Saul Estrin
Mike Wright
JANUARY 17
Intro to Entrepreneurship
Professor of Entrepreneurship
at Imperial College Business
School and Director of the
Centre for Management Buy-out
Research
Andrew Harries
Scott Stern
JANUARY 31
FEBRUARY 21
Science/Tech Entrepreneurship
Chair of the Technological
Innovation, Entrepreneurship,
and Strategic Management
Group at the MIT Sloan School
of Management
Financing for Entrepreneurs
Founding President and CEO
of Zeugma Systems and Cofounded Sierra Wireless, Inc.
Jonathan Lewis
MARCH 7
Social Entrepreneurship
Founder and President of the
Opportunity Collaboration and
Founder and Board Chair of
MicroCredit Enterprises
Kate Oakley
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20
Robert Miller
MARCH 21
Cultural Entrepreneurship
APRIL 4
Indigenous Entrepreneurship
Professor of Law, Sandra Day
O’Connor College of Law, Lewis
& Clark Law School
Professor of Cultural Policy
and Director of Research at
the Institute of Communication
Studies, University of Leeds
5:30–7:30 pm
SFU Vancouver TBC
Professor of Management and Head of the
Department of Management at the London
School of Economics and Political Science
* Schedule may be subject to change
RESERVE YOUR SEAT ONLINE • www.sfu.ca/colloquium2014
COL LOQUI U M GR AD U ATE CO U R S E
FE W SPAC ES L EF T
This is a graduate course that all SFU graduate
students and senior undergraduate students
may take for credit toward their degrees. This
unique course will explore the various facets
and incarnations of entrepreneurship that cut
across disciplinary boundaries and engage with
stakeholders within and beyond the University.
Administered by the Office of Graduate Studies and
Postdoctoral Fellows
Registration
Enrolment is limited to 20
students. Late applications
may be accepted if there
is space available. Course
outline and application can
be found under Downloads:
www.sfu.ca/colloquium2014
E N GAG ING THE WO RLD
Faculty Organizer
Eric Gedajlovic, Beedie School of Business
Sponsors
Generously funded by the SFU President’s Office,
the Office of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral
Fellows, the BMO Bank of Montreal Lecture
Series Endowment Fund, the Beedie Family
Visiting Fellows Endowment Fund.
Participating Faculty
George Agnes, Science
Michael Boucher,
Cultural Development
& Programming, SFU
Woodward’s David Dunne, Beedie
School of Business
Bryan Gallagher, Beedie
School of Business
Eric Gedajlovic, Beedie
School of Business
Mark Selman, Beedie
School of Business
Tom Lawrence, Beedie
School of Business
Jan Simon, Beedie
School of Business
Elicia Maine, Beedie
School of Business
Shawn Smith, Beedie
School of Business
Catherine Murray, FCAT:
Communications
Fred Popowich, Applied
Sciences: Computing
Science
Photo: K.Landerholm