Fourth Annual Conference on Community Economics

Sponsored by Tompkins Institute, Cape Breton University and New Dawn Enterprises

  June 26-28, 2003
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Canada
ENTREPRENEURS AND COMMUNITY BUSINESS
Cape Breton University
Tompkins Institute
New Dawn
CED Institute
BCA Group
 MBA in CED
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 Updated June 04, 2003

Charles MacDonald, Director of BCA, is Conference MC

Thursday, June 26, 2003

6:00 pm Registration
7:00 pm

Official Opening
Introduction: Charles MacDonald
7:30 pm Keynote Address - Harvey Johnstone and Greg MacLeod -
“Entrepreneurs and Community Business: An Overview”
Wine and Cheese Reception

Friday, June 27,2003

8:30 am Full Breakfast
9:00 am  Plenary Session – Ray Hudson – “Realistic View of Context for Action”
10:00 am Nutrition Break
  CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
10:15am - 11:15am Workshops
1. Pierre Dupuis- CEDTAP - "Outsourcing to Service Providers as a Condition for Community Entrepreneurship"
2. Gerard Perron - "How Credit Unions Can Be a Strong Economic Force: Desjardins Trends in Quebec"
10:15 am - 10:45am Academic Papers
1. Wade Locke. "University Research and Local Entrepreneurs - An ACOA Study"
10:45am - 11:15am

Academic Papers
1. Darryl Reed - "Entrepreneurship as Vocation"
2. Mikel Cid – “Saiolan: The Incubator Case in Mondragon”
11:15 am General Assembly Discussion
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm

Plenary Session- Gerard Perron "How A Development co-operative is Entrepreneurial in Job Creation"
  CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
2:00 pm - 
3:00 pm

Workshops
1. Charles Davis, Greg MacLeod, Wade Locke - "Action Research as Entrepreneurship: The Co-operative Corporation as an Experiment"
2. Ray Merriam and Peter Fritz - "Aboriginal CED: The Road to Self-Determination"
3. Jim MacCormack - "The Nuts and Bolts of New Dawn Enterprises"

2:00 pm - 
2:30 pm		 Academic Papers
1. Maureen Woodrow and Herb Bown - “Seeking Sustainable Business Models for Coastal Communities: A Case Study of Stages and Stores on Change Islands, Newfoundland”
2. Ken Donovan - "The Cape Breton Approach in History Tourism; 1760 to Present"
2:30 pm - 
3:00 pm 		 Academic Papers
1. Darryl Birkenfeld - "Environmental Entrepreneurship: Building a Developmental Commons in the Ogallala Aquifer Region of the Great Plains"
2. Paul Wilkinson - "Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Tourism"
3:00 pm  Nutrition Break
3:15pm Discussion Groups
4:00 pm General Assembly: Distilling Common Themes
5:00 pm Viewing of "The Third Option" CD-ROM
6:00 pm

Dinner – Chair: Eileen Lannon Oldford
                 Speaker: Rankin MacSween

7:30 pm Cape Breton Ceilidh

Saturday, June 28, 2003

8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am  Plenary Session – Mikel Lezamiz - “Mondragon in 2003”
10:00 am Nutrition Break
  CONCURRENT SESSIONS:
10:15 am- 
11:15 am		 Workshops
1. Doug Davison with CEDIF Panel - "Techniques Used for Crocus Fund"
2. Frances Oommen - "Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Environmentally Friendly Energy Sources"
10:15 am -
10:45 am

Academic Papers
1. Harvey Johnstone - “The Entrepreneurial Process in the Depleted Community”
2. Ray Hudson - “The UK Social Economy: Panacea or Problem?”
10:45 am -
11:15 am		 Academic Papers
1. Doug Lionais - “Entrepreneurship in Community Business: Formalizing the Vision”
2. Greg MacLeod - “Cooperative Corporations”
11:15 am General Assembly and Conference Conclusion
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