THECIS Fellows Speaker Series
December 5, 2023
Chad Saunders – “ Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Canada – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”.
Chad will position the session around understanding how the GEM study is structured, the underlying assumptions, the data, the challenges, and how we have been leveraging this initiative thus far and open it up for input on how we might be able to do more in ways that leverages the interests of the Fellows.
Chad is the THECIS Senior Fellow. He is Associate Professor at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. More at https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/chad-saunders
Unleashing the hidden GEM(s). Entrance code: Passcode: %QrM7G*H
October 30, 2023
Our first speaker was Jon Thomas – titled “Science commercialization from university settings.” Entrance code: 8e!cJM.Y
Jon is from the University of the Fraser Valley. Jon is Director of the Esposito Family Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (EFCIE), BC Regional Innovation Chair in Canada-India Partnership Development, UFV , and Associate Professor, Innovation & Entrepreneurship.