Outside The Square is an inititive with the Canterbury Development Corporation to build, embed, and promote an enterprising culture in Canterbury.

Websites:



Entré is a student driven organisation at the University of Canterbury, aiming to inspire young entrepreneurs at the university to consider how their ideas and innovations could be transformed into successful business ventures. As part of this, entré also seeks to strengthen ties between the university and local industry.

CORE Education

Canterbury Development Corporation (CDC) partners with CORE education to provide the in-school support for Education for Enterprise (E4E) practice within the Enterprise Champions Newtork (ECN) project. This role is taken up by the E4E Advisor, Gina Revill. CORE is a not-for-profit educational research and development organisation based in Christchurch, New Zealand. CORE researches, applies, supports, and disseminates new learning technologies including professional learning, student e-learning programme and online communities.

Cii is New Zealand’s leading business incubation facility, established to accelerate the growth of emerging high technology companies in Canterbury.

Enterprise New Zealand Trust's (ENZT) mission is to ensure that increasing numbers of New Zealand school students participate in quality enterprise and financial literacy education.

  

The Small Business Game is an educational game produced by the Small Business Company, where students run their own football franchise store (The Sports Store). The game is linked to the New Zealand school curriculum and is designed to teach enterprise skills; where students are learning in a fun, interactive way about a variety of concepts from across the school curriculum.


Science Alive promotes the value of science and technology through interactive experiences that are innovative, educational and fun!



Rutherford's Den where visitors can experience Rutherford's life and science through dynamic multimedia, meet him in the Den where it all happened, listen to historic broadcasts and recollections of his character and be part of the daily life at Canterbury College in the 1890's.



The Minister of Youth Affairs with the assistance of the Ministry of Youth Development, is celebrating the positive contribution that young people make to our communities and to New Zealand.

 

Sustainable Initiatives Fund Trust (SIFT) – an independent not for profit trust benefiting the Canterbury region by encouraging waste minimisation initiatives.
SIFT supports the business case for transforming waste into sustainable projects, and aims to help individuals, businesses or organisations develop new or unique ways of recycling or reusing resources, or reducing materials that currently enter the waste stream.



Rock+Ice is an industry leader, providing dynamic and challenging team development solutions that create strong relationships. Since 1997, Rock+Ice have specialised in breaking new ground and increasing the quality and productivity of their clients. 

 

The Pulse

Information is power, and if you've got your finger on The Pulse, the power's all yours.
The Pulse is Canterbury's youth website - good stuff about the good stuff. Info you can trust, from people like you, to help you get more from life.
And heaps of cool things to win, things to do and things to try.
The Pulse - keep your finger on it!

Educational:

Enterprise in Education

New Zealand
www.tki.org.nz/r/education_for_enterprise/
 
UK
http://www.enterpriseweek.org.uk/
http://www.makeyourmark.org.uk/

Scotland
www.determinedtosucceed.co.uk
www.ltscotland.org.uk/enterpriseineducation/

Australia
www.dest.gov.au/schools.enterprise/index.htm

Reading:

Screw It, Let's Do It, Lessons in Life
Richard Branson

Learn the Secrets of a Global Icon: "Throughout my life I have always strived for success - as a businessman, in my adventures, as an author and a proud father and husband. I want to share my many truths I've learned along the road to success which have helped me to be the best I can. They include: have faith in yourself, believe that anything can be done, live life to the full, never give up..."

Silver Linings on the Long White Cloud

Chris Dodds 

"These aren't the usual success stories. They are from remarkable New Zealanders who used their setbacks to become inspirations to us all"  

 

 

 

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Outside The Square
Canterbury Development Corporation
Level 2, 193 Cashel Street
PO Box 2962
Christchurch
New Zealand
Phone: +64 3 353 0034
Fax: +64 3 379 0871
otscoordinator@cdc.org.nz