Debra Jonasson-Young, director of the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Winnipeg Free Press: Startup Canada, Stu Clark New Venture Championships bring like minds together

April 22, 2024 —

Business cards were traded like Pokémon inside the RBC Convention Centre on Thursday.

Eskor (Beko) Mbeko-Edem had his — and a suitcase full of his company’s hot sauces — on hand: “I’m always ready to go, any setup like this.”

Fellow entrepreneurs and support organizations surrounded him. He’d joined the first stop of Startup Canada’s cross-country tour promoting business creation.

For the full story on the Stu Clark New Venture Championships, please visit the Winnipeg Free Press.

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Taking a national temperature check on entrepreneurship

What if scholars could capture how a country collectively feels and thinks about a subject, even in an age of information overload? Wenxi Pu (Associate Dean, Assistant Professor, The Associates Fellow in Innovation) has spent about eight years working to do just that in a piece now published in the FT50-ranked Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Artificial Intelligence, Asper, Asper Research, entrepreneurship, Wenxi Pu

BComm Spotlight

BComm student Habiba Mohamed saves everything. With each new country she visits, Mohamed keeps train tickets, postcards, and keychains. When she gets back home, she arranges them carefully into a single scrapbook page, a glimpse of another Asper adventure.

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