The Tough Life of an Academice Entrepreneur: Reprint

The following is a Reprint from the LSE Blog: The original link is here: The Tough Life of an Academic Entrepreneur: Innovative commercial and non-commercial ventures must be encouraged. This was written by Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr.     The Tough Life of an Academic Entrepreneur: Innovative commercial and non-commercial ventures must be encouraged. […]

Reprint: The Trend of Economic Development Associations on Vancouver Island and Sooke’s Role

The following is a reprint as published in Sooke’s leading newspaper, the Sooke Pocket News.  I have added some additional photographs to the story as well in order that others from afar might visualize the setting and get a better feeling for Sooke.   http://sooke.pocketnews.ca/the-trend-of-economic-development-associations-on-vancouver-island-and-sookes-role/ ————————————————– The Trend of Economic Development Associations on Vancouver Island […]

Infographic: Which IT Job is the Best?

Which IT Job is the Best   From Computer Science Zone

The Comeback of Hardware in the West

The following article was reposted from the Sooke Pocket News and was published on 10-04-2015 The comeback of Hardware Innovation in the West presents opportunities for Sooke Posted on April 10, 2015 by SookePub by Michael Clouser Hardware innovation in the West is coming back. We’ll see a surge of new products being invented, especially […]

Noam Chomsky on Scottish Independence: Video interview (repost)

See Bella Calendonia’s blog for the Noam Chomsky interview. 

A tale of two letters on Scottish independence from business: Analysis (Repost)

This article was reposted from the Future of Scotland and the UK blog, which is hosted by the University of Edinburgh See the article here: http://www.futureukandscotland.ac.uk/blog/tale-two-letters-scottish-independence-business-analysis   The Academic Entrepreneur does not share the same views, but this article is instead provided for the interest of readers.  “ A tale of two letters on Scottish […]

Academic Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality Industry

“You can take the Hotelie out of the Hotel Industry, but you can never take the Hotel Industry out of the Hotelie” -Hotelie saying heard frequently at alumni gatherings and especially Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) at Cornell University every April Our all-time favorite academic entrepreneur of course is none other than Chuck Feeney, Cornell University […]

Polish Migrants in Scotland

Polish_migrants_in_Scotland_2014 For a link to the .pdf: Polish migrants in Scotland: voting behaviours and engagement in the Scottish independence referendum   This report from the Centre for Population Change (CPC) from the University of South Hampton was published recently and highlighted on the University of Edinburgh’s Future of the UK and Scotland website by Coree […]

Border Effects: Canada-USA Lessons by James E. Anderson of Boston College

This presentation was given at the University of Edinburgh on the 26th of June, 2014.  It was highlighted today on the University of Edinburgh’s Referendum blog  “Informing the Debate” at  www.referendum.ed.ac.uk. Thanks Coree Brown for posting this for us.  

University of Edinburgh – MOOC on the Scottish Referendum

The University of Edinburgh has launched a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) today on the Scottish Referendum. See the news here on BBC News Scotland Politics.   The six week course launched on the 25th of August 2014  is entitled “Towards Scottish Independence? Understanding the Referendum” More information can be found on the course MOOC […]