By Tyler Kula, f rom www.theobserver.ca The Observer
Reza Moridi, Ontario’s minister of research and innovation, announced close to $200,000 Wednesday to fund entrepreneurship at Lambton College.
The investment, through the province’s On-Campus Entrepreneurship Activities (OCEA) program, the ministry said, will be used to fund the college’s Cube, an entrepreneurship hub that helps entrepreneurs develop their business ideas and acumen.
The OCEA program, the ministry said, is part of a provincial Youth Jobs Strategy being implemented at universities and colleges across Ontario.
There are 30 similar programs at post-secondary schools across the province, said Dr. Tom Corr, president and CEO of the Ontario Centres of Excellence that is overseeing the programs.
All but two of Ontario’s 44 post-secondary institutions have on-campus entrepreneurship programs, the ministry said.
“Helping young entrepreneurs is another example of Ontario’s Youth Jobs Strategy at work in Sarnia and across the province,” said Moridi, also minister of training, colleges and universities, in a news release.
“These programs will help harness their ideas, their vision and their enthusiasm and turn them into jobs for today and tomorrow.”
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