As it extends its mandate beyond the university’s business school, the Saint Mary’s University Entrepreneurship Centre is focusing more heavily on helping students launch social enterprises.
Founded almost two decades ago as the Sobey School Business Development Centre, the SMU Entrepreneurship Centre helps students learn about entrepreneurship and start their own businesses. It is now broadening the mandate to work with students from all faculties, not just the Sobey School of Business.
The focus on social ventures – companies whose central mission is to benefit society or the planet as