Development

The Saint Mary's University Entrepreneurship Centre is a strong supporter of hiring students. The placement allows them to apply classroom knowledge through a paid work term. Co-op helps students obtain valuable hands on work experience while developing new skills through experiential learning. The co-op program is a great opportunity to work in a field of interest while in school.

Work Smarts is a paid nine month internship that combines work experience, skills training and mentoring. It allows post secondary graduates the opportunity to apply the skill sets they developed at school, in a work setting that is consistent with their past education and will allow them to become leaders in their chosen fields.

List of SMU business development centre events

The Saint Mary's University Student Entrepreneurship Centre offers undergraduates, graduates, and post-graduates from all disciplines the opportunity to increase their awareness of entrepreneurship as a career option, as well as to start or expand their own business. The Student Entrepreneurship Centre provides business advice through one-on-one counseling, technical expertise, seminars, work-shops, competitions and networking opportunities with the business community.

Business Services provide business owners and managers with the essential skills to maximize the performance, efficiency and profitability of their business. Designed to provide entrepreneurs and growing businesses with the necessary tools and skills immediately applicable to their business. The services available use proven methods in the areas of Marketing Finance, Business Operations, Management, and Strategy and Innovation.

Primary research is done through the development of survey tools, conducting focus groups and one-on-one interviews with key stakeholders to your project, both internal (employees) and external (partners, stakeholders, customers). This is the collection of data that does not already exist. Secondary research is a thorough examination and summary of research and/or literature that has already been written and collected.

The Mission of the Saint Mary's Business Development Center is building and supporting community business leaders through consulting and training.

The intention of this project is to bring together a group of Elders from around the Atlantic region in order for them to guide the APCFNC (and others) on the development of protocols, ethics and guidelines on how Traditional Knowledge and Aboriginal world views can be incorporated into research which guides community economic development. These protocols, ethics and guidelines could be used for other areas of research as well.

Provincial governments in the Atlantic Provinces are adopting aggressive renewable energy targets and strategies to meet those targets. Are First Nations participating in the renewable energy sector? If not, what are the barriers to that participation and how can we overcome those barriers. Several First Nations have begun to identify renewable energy opportunities and are working to meet renewable energy targets set by their respective provinces. What can we learn from them?

Strong educational attainment goes hand in hand with robust economic development. The immediate goal of this study is to build knowledge in Mi'kmaw and Maliseet communities around implementing and cultivating successful immersion programs.