Jeremy Hullhas successfully completedCertificate of CompletionSeptember 13, 202258319435Regional Business Development
Jeremy Hull
has successfully completed
Certificate of Completion
September 13, 2022
58319435
Regional Business Development
Jeremy Hull
In this 5-hr online course, participants learn about the vital role a business ecosystem plays in supporting entrepreneurship and business development. Business systems, trends, and resources play a vital role in innovation and generating value. In this course, we will learn how to cultivate vibrant business systems at the regional and municipal level.
The course consists of 5 lessons:
• Lesson 1: Economic trends
• Lesson 2: Clusters, ecosystems, and conditions for thriving ecosystems
• Lesson 3: Common approaches to economic development
• Lesson 4: Developing regional ecosystems
• Lesson 5: Strengthening regional economic systems
Skills / Knowledge
- • Identify the 6 major trends impacting Canadian businesses and how those trends benefit and harm competitiveness and entrepreneurship within municipal ecosystems
- • Define what a system is and describe how a system applies to regional economic development
- • Recognize what a cluster is and its role in regional economic development
- • Compare and contrast common approaches to regional economic development and consider how some of the approaches may do more harm than good
- • Form and/or reshape existing clusters to address the 6 major economic trends
- • Discuss the components of and barriers to entrepreneurship
- • Describe the conditions for a thriving and prosperous SME environment
- • Identify choke-points in an economic system and how to address the choke points
- • Mobilize resources and people
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