Changes

The current entrepreneurial system offers students the opportunity to perceive the importance of entrepreneurship and realize the potential that it can have for them.  The opportunities to advance beyond into applied and realized entrepreneurship are minimal.  Senior seminars and capstone design classes give some design opportunity but prevent students from exposure to entrepreneurship till their senior year in higher education.  It is through new student driven organizations that changes will begin to be made.  Spring 2014 will see the first entrepreneurial collaborations between disciplines and the possibility of build and startup weekends. New student groups within the Nouspace gallery, under the direction of the CMDC program and the University Fellow will bring new show and gallery opportunities to STEM and art students with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.  The future goals of WSUV will have a heavy focus on entrepreneurship and the new designation by the Department of Commerce of Vancouver as an Innovation Partnership Zone will only help to bring this focus to the greater community.