Cape Spear, Newfoundland – closer to Glasgow than Vancouver
Cape Spear, Newfoundland – closer to Glasgow than Vancouver
Professor Colin Mason of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship spent a few days in Newfoundland, Canada's most easterly province, in September at the invitation of the Business Faculty of the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) where he gave a series of talks to faculty, undergraduate and MBA students, tenants of the university's business incubator, the local business angel group and an audience of policy-makers. He was also invited to meet the Deputy Minister in the Provincial Government's Industry Department.
The highlight of his visit was a well-received talk to policy-makers at the Harris Centre, whose role is to connect the university with the regional policy and development needs of the province. His talk, entitled "Quantity Versus Quality in Enterprise Policy: How Do We Get More High Growth Firms", outlined the argument for an entrepreneurial policy which supports high growth firms and the form that such a policy should take. This talk was based on his forthcoming paper in Small Business Economics, co-authored with Dr Ross Brown of Scottish Enterprise (and a Strathclyde graduate) and arises from his ongoing work for Scottish Enterprise on high growth firms.
The longer-term objective of the visit was to work with the entrepreneurship staff at MUN to develop a research proposal that would attract funding from the Harris Centre and which would be undertaken next summer.