The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Canada)

Abstract

This chapter presents a case study on the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation operating in North America. The case study was formed through a formal interview with the Director of the Centre, a range of informal conversations with academic and support staff of the Centre and those within the entrepreneurial ecosystem, over a period of six months, with archival documentation studied to corroborate and substantiate the findings. As their annual report states, the Centre has focused on developing ‘support’ across the entrepreneurial and student communities. Next is to ‘establish’ and then ‘sustain’ over the next ten years (HCEI, Engaging a new generation of entrepreneurial thinkers, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2014–2015 Annual Report, 2015). To achieve this, one particular aspect is the location of the Centre, which is currently being debated. No decision has yet been made; however, as the activities of the Centre cascade further across faculty, it was commented that it might make sense for the Centre to report to central faculty. How to measure success is another area that, to date, has not been fully crystallised.