After having two classes of learning what social entrepreneurship is, in my opinion, it is something that is still difficult to be taught. Hearing about it is just scratching the surface. Becoming social entrepreneurs involves transformative action to empower learning of new skills and strategies to tackle the next economic, social, and cultural issues of society.
On that note, it was interesting to read about how SFU’s Beedie School of Business takes a unique hands-on approach in brining concept to reality – an approach which UBC students, such as myself, would also find worthy of my time. Essentially, they have created this program that offers students interested in a social venture idea the “support and structure” needed to take their first steps as social entrepreneurs. Students are assigned mentors and are paired up with individuals who have experience launching start-up companies.
While I am uninformed whether or not UBC’s Sauder School of Business currently has a similar “accelerator” program in place, Sauder still has a handful of graduates who have continued on to become successful social entrepreneurs!
