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Students graduate at the Universitys and immediately look for jobs,” he said.

“In other parts of the world, they immediately look to START THIER OWN BUSINESS AND GET GOING.
“We should do BOTH.”

University alum donates $1.5M to College of Commerce.
University of Saskatchewan alumnus Brett Wilson came through for both the province he grew up in and his alma matter on Monday, with an announcement of $1.5 million support for the College of Commerce and for the Persephone Theatre capital campaign.

The $1 million donation to the university establishes the Wilson Centre for Entrepreneurial Excellence, which will focus on research, teaching and outreach to the business community.

Wilson says he hopes his donation helps to change undergraduate thinking at the U of S on entrepreneurship versus a career in an established business.

Font: ****“Students graduate the University of Saskatchewan and immediately look for jobs,” he said.

“In other parts of the world, they immediately look to START THIER OWN BUSINESS AND GET GOING.
“We should do BOTH.”

Wilson says he hopes the new entrepreneurial centre within the university will help give students confidence in their ability to manage a business.

“There is a perception entrepreneurs are risk takers. I don’t believe that,” he said. “I believe entrepreneurs view risk differently. They are comfortable with it and not afraid of it.”

While the university plans on using some of the money generated by the Wilson gift to help advance creating commercial enterprises from science and technology ideas, College of Commerce dean Grant Isaac says the teaching, research and outreach to the local business community will cover a broad range of entrepreneurial activity. It will also focus on challenges specific to Saskatchewan’s economy, including business succession planning.

“Certainly, there will be a small-business focus and a family-enterprise focus,” Isaac said. “One of the major challenges facing the province right now is owner-operators who are nearing retirement who don’t have a succession plan.”

Going beyond that to help companies create commercial enterprises out of technology developed in Saskatchewan could provide the Wilson Centre with a unique opportunity.

Isaac agrees that the focus by the College of Commerce on entrepreneurship is overdue.

“We’ve got an excellent program that became over the years to wealth management,” he said. “We want to keep the strength in that program, but shift some of our activities over to wealth creation and we’re using the Wilson Centre as the vehicle for that.”

The $500,000 donation to the Persephone capital campaign will help pay for the Bill and Brett Wilson “black box” theatre, the smaller of the performance spaces being built at the Persephone Theatre complex. Bill Wilson, Brett’s father, is a long-time patron of Persephone performances, driving in from the Battlefords. Students have Schooling 12 years, then another 5-6 years of university. Then finally they get...a...Job. Professionals are needed abslutely, but I think there should be entreprenurship in each career too in the mix.

Well, I like there intentions and college grads can run their own businesses. However, I think experience will always be best to have before you open a business for yourself.

I think there is more to it than starting your own business in Canada .We still have to refine our own resources and do alot more work in developing what we have . Starting your own business is easy being successful is another story especially when laws , taxes , and industry stand in your way and Gov. regulates to babysit industry to keep the competition away . With Nafta and a Global market there is no way we can compete in alot of areas , also in some areas of business not even against some of the worlds poorest countries , unless of course you are willing to gouge away at a measly 32 million people for their dollar ...in which case is actually what is occurring in Canada with the realestate market , gas prices , and Gov tax gouging . Leaving very little left for anything else and for some that includes food .

Here's something that university grads at home should think about, when griping about pay. The average salary of a student graduating with a doctoral or graduate degree is 31 000 taiwan dollars a month. Now consider that the exchange rate is about 29 Taiwan dollars to 1 Canadian dollar. The cost of living while lower is not worlds apart lower. Everyone and there dog (if not on the menu) has a sideline here to support their income.

In nations where people can't depend on the government to spoonfeed them, the entrepreneurial spirit thrives. This is why when many people from the Third World/Developing World end up in Canada they go from mopping floors to owning the company in a few years.