Howard Armitage will become the new Special Advisor, Entrepreneurship, on September 1, 2013. Armitage is founding director of the Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology program at the University of Waterloo, and the former director of the Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Centre.
"As Special Advisor, Entrepreneurship, Professor Armitage will co-ordinate and plan campus-wide entrepreneurship capacity," University President Feridun Hamdullahpur said in a memo to university staff and faculty. "Specifically, he will work towards greater integration of academic and non-academic entrepreneurship activities, and work with campus and community partners to advise on policies and activities that will lay the groundwork for creating a campus-wide entrepreneurship entity."