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New B.C. business case library to highlight province’s technology industry for students and entrepreneurs

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VANCOUVER— The launch of a business case library with a focus on British Columbia technology companies highlights the province’s growing knowledge economy, while giving students unprecedented access to industry successes, challenges, and best practices.

The BCIC Business Case Library is a collection of business cases that cover an extensive range of topics, including entrepreneurship, technology management, sustainability, finance, and marketing. The venture was established by the BC Innovation Council, and led by the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business.

The library will be used by post-secondary students, instructors, entrepreneurs and industry professionals to gain knowledge from local companies. In addition, the library is expected to shine a light on the province’s burgeoning technology industry and marketing the province’s technology companies globally.

“The availability of these business case studies will benefit B.C. students and entrepreneurs wanting to learn relevant local content that realistically reflects the province’s business environment,” said Dean Rockwell, CEO of BC Innovation Council.

“This is an incredible learning resource for the next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders in this province,” said Thomas Hellmann, the B.I. Ghert Family Foundation Professor in Finance and Policy at the Sauder School of Business, who led the project at UBC. “These case studies help students to understand the intimate relationship between business and technology. This is relevant for start-ups and established companies alike.”

Business cases are often used as part of the case teaching method, an experiential learning approach that is popular with some business schools, and one made well known by Harvard Business School.

The BCIC Business Case Library was developed with expertise from seven universities in the province: British Columbia Institute of Technology, Simon Fraser University, Thompson Rivers University, University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia Okanagan, University of Northern British Columbia, and University of Victoria. The initiative also received support from the W. Maurice Young Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Research Centre.

“British Columbia is a great environment for entrepreneurial spirit," said David Demers, CEO of Westport Innovations, a leading developer of environmental technologies for vehicles, and one of the companies participating in the business cases collection.

The library is available in its entirety online at:  http://www.bcic.ca/case-library  
(All business cases are free and can be downloaded.)

BCIC Business Case Library — Case Studies by Company:

  • AbeBooks
  • Absolute Software
  • Ballard Power Systems
  • Blast Radius
  • Canadian Council for the Americas in BC
  • Carmanah Technologies
  • DelTech Manufacturing Inc.
  • Etraffic Press
  • Inland Glass & Aluminum Ltd.
  • Inproheat Industries
  • Kelowna Flightcraft
  • Moly-Cop Canada
  • OncoGenex Technologies
  • QLT
  • Sitemasher Corporation
  • Teampages.com
  • Terahertz Solutions Inc.
  • Westport Innovations Inc.
  • Wood Lake Publishing
  • YVR
  • Zengar Institute

Contact:
Sauder School of Business
Adrian Wee
604-822-1491
adrian.wee@sauder.ubc.ca