University of Limerick inspires Canadian entrepreneurs

From yesterday's Winnipeg Sun -

"When The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce led a mission to Ireland a few years ago we learned a great deal about how they turned around their economy. One lesson that stuck with me was picked up during a trip to Limerick University. At this progressive institution, entrepreneurship was a course that was mandatory in each faculty. In a discussion I had with the dean of music, he raved about the entrepreneurship course and its value to his students. In Ireland, a change in their culture from an agrarian society to an entrepreneurial society occurred only because they made it a higher priority. We need to do the same in Manitoba..."

I never knew that my alma mater had made entrepreneurship a mandatory module sometime after I left there a decade ago - it's great to learn that the institution is as progressive as ever.

Comments

[Brian Flanagan at PlanWare]

What goes around comes around. I remember being involved in NIHE and the early days of the Innovation Centre. This was back in about 1982 when concepts like VC and hitech were very new to everyone. I remember a Canadian Professor, Grant Anderson I think was his name, and a US techie, Marshall Fitzgerald were the leaders of a hitech entrepreneurs programme which was launched at Shannon.This was very pioneering stuff at the time. So, interesting to see that a Canadian helped initiate interest in entrepeneurship at UL. I wonder whether the recent visitors knew this.

[James Corbett]

Very interesting indeed Brian, I certainly wasn't aware of that.