Schulich School of Business Launches Centre for Global Enterprise

The Schulich School of Business at York University [has] launched the Centre for Global Enterprise, a one-stop consulting, research and teaching hub that will actively help Canada's small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) to compete internationally.

...the Centre for Global Enterprise's mission is to motivate, enable and assist SMEs to build on their domestic success by taking advantage of global opportunities. The Centre will also serve as a resource centre for all Canadian companies that aspire to expand internationally.

Canada's estimated 1.4 million SMEs, defined by Industry Canada as companies that employ fewer than 500 people with revenues of less than $50 million, make up about 98 per cent of the nation's businesses and employ almost 60 per cent of the country's workforce. Despite this, only about 8 per cent of SMEs have developed significant export markets, a statistic that needs to change to ensure Canada's continued economic prosperity, according to Dr. Lorna Wright, who holds the EDC Professorship in International Business at Schulich and is the inaugural Director of the Centre for Global Enterprise...

For more information about the Centre for Global Enterprise, please visit www.schulich.yorku.ca/cge.

This has been excerpted from 21 November 2013 article by Market Wired, and is available in its entirety at: http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/schulich-school-of-business-launches-centre-for-global-enterprise-1855308.htm.