2004 - 2005 Calendar
Dr. R. Richards, Director and Youth-Focused Technological Entrepreneurship
Chair
Dr. D. Hanlon, Youth-Focused Technological Entrepreneurship Associate
Chair
B. Simmons, Associate Director, The Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Outreach Centre
S. Costello, Associate Director, The Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Gateway
R. Power, Entrepreneur in Residence
C. Hurdle, Business Consultant
S. Gardiner, Project Accountant
S. Butler, Research Assistant
C. Miller, Intermediate Secretary
P. Nixon, Administrative Staff Specialist
Memorial University of Newfoundland’s P.J. Gardiner Institute (PJG)
was the first centre of small business support to be established within
a Canadian university. The objective of the Institute is to be the leading
entrepreneurship institute in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador
and a contributor to innovative frameworks for entrepreneurship education
and support worldwide. To satisfy this objective, the PJG is comprised
of four complementary centres.
The Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Gateway - The Gateway
is a collaboration of the Youth-Focused Technological Entrepreneurship
(YTE) Chair and the PJG. It is a university-based mechanism to bridge
the gap between the needs of potential entrepreneurs at the seminal stages
of enterprise development, and the various resources, programs and agencies
that exist to meet those needs. The Gateway is catalytic in connecting
the right client with the right resource at the right time. It is
complementary to existing private, academic, and government agencies and
programs in that its role is one of connectivity rather than duplication
of service. The Gateway operates as a “re-entry model” in that a client
returns to the Gateway as often as is useful for additional navigational
help and support.
The Entrepreneurship Research Centre - The research output
of the YTE Chair is being captured, catalogued, and stored in collaboration
with the Research Centre. This body of research is accessible
to other researchers and the general public and disseminated by the
Research Centre. The PJG is able to facilitate the participation
of faculty in the Chair research program and continue many of the entrepreneurship
themes of the Chair in years to come. It will become the repository
of entrepreneurship development ‘tools’ and entrepreneurship research
and will capture and disseminate entrepreneurship education and current
research in the area of technological entrepreneurship.
The Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Outreach Centre - This
centre develops and delivers outreach services to meet the needs of provincial
and federal economic development agencies, as well as business resource
agencies, in areas of particular interest or relevance. These activities
create a robust interaction with provincial economic development agencies
and are an essential point of intersection between the work of the PJG and
the needs of real people in the real economy.
The Centre for Family Business - This centre provides consulting,
research and education in support of the special needs of family business.
Historically, the needs of family business have been poorly understood
and the vulnerabilities and opportunities facing family businesses have
been inadequately addressed. There is a need to attend to and support
issues related to training, succession planning, skill development, and
financing. The centre conducts comprehensive, relevant research into
questions of unique interest to the family business dynamic.
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