Professor David Lank Promotes Entrepreneurship Education

Are you an entrepreneur with a business you want to take to the next level or a bright idea you'd like to develop? Do you have $25,000 and two years to learn how to make it happen? Then you might want to consider applying now to what could be the world's first private school for entrepreneurs. "There's been a lot of interest," Marc Dutil, founding president of the École d'Entrepreneurship de Beauce, said about the number of phone calls and admission-form downloads the new school has had since registration began in mid-April. A self-described "institution of higher education dedicated to the training and development of future business leaders," the school is trying to recruit up to 25 students for its first program this fall. "It's an absolutely fascinating new approach to teaching business," said David Lank, director emeritus at the McGill University-affiliated Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies - and a possible professor at the new Beauce school. According to Lank, who founded and still chairs Canada's first venture-capital funding company (Helix Investments), the school's mix of practical and theoretical information on topics that range from finding financing for a factory expansion to preparing the second- and third-generation of company ownership, will provide a dynamism that is lacking in modern MBA programs.

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