A new role for business

## Ideas Generated at the Stepping Up Conference

Provide business development/sales/advice/counseling to new businesses or existing small businesses

Connect small business owners who are ready to exit their business and who have no sucessar

Generate provincial dashboard of metrics that all Nova Scotians have access to

Develop a list of easy ideas that every Nova Scotian could do, under each Ivany goal and then promote it widely

NS International student connector/mentor program

Govt NS/Defence/Industry Advisory Group

Create a new business formation SWAT team between nsbi and department of of business

Make NS a world leader in cycling tourism

Learn more about working with/employing youth with disability

Build a collaborative network of business focused on telling a “new story” about NS business

Develop clusters for creative industries to work closely together

Building networks and places to have more frequent collaborative conversations on how to move our community forward

Launch a provincial campaign to have all businesses hire at least one 20-30 year old

Create and promote a one stop shop for info

Publication - print or online - profiling/case studies of NS homegrown small business success stories

Mobilize NS chambers of commerce to implement a oneNS action plan - focus on measurable objectives

Find out why people who move here, move here and what makes them stay

Discuss social innovation and system change - social enterprise and small/medium/sized enterprise

Introduce a new mechanism that forces more positive discussion/sharing

Students helping other students find a creating a lasting community with whom you want to school with from career to volunteering to advice

Educate employers on immigrants international qualification recognition process

Help/work with new startups to navigate the bureaucracy of starting a business

Begin a weekly public posting of NS Call to Action

Make the idea a reality - Nova Scotia : The 3D Printing Capital of the world

Build collaboration team between government, private sector, education

Invest in young employers - support and them for success

Tell a new story

Create a compelling NS vision that’s specific, that’s stretch, but “believable”

Develop a well advertised mentorship opportunity between large and successful business leaders with junior/small business leaders

Acknowledge community literacies project

Create/work on a new definition of entrepreneurial

Make NS a hub of innovation for ageing in place

Create a collaborative Hub for community projects

Create a NS business leadership group/team/council

Initiate pan-NS business promotion of business success stories

Create and popularize a business support navigation “one stop”

A support mechanism (ecosystem for youth engagement) based on our strong small businesses

Identify ways that regions in NS can contribute to global value chains

## Pre-exisiting Ideas

Bring “intelligent communication forum” approach to Halifax

Shirlaws Love Project: Building Business Models : Be disruptive

Collaborative efforts between government, non-profit and businesses to address:labour market and skill sets

NowOrNever.com

Building connections between existing start ups and the schools-gaming, oceans, etc etc etc so students can see what is available for future opportunities

Increase (host) number of national and international sporting events ie tour NS cycling

Connector Program (HP)

Use Norwegian contacts to bring new business to NS

HRM Bridging the Gaps

Growing our ocean sector : collaborative marketing of our sector to the world

Boyne Clark Innovative Ideas Competition

Provide the best internet across NS and support small businesses in all corners of the province on global markets

Collaborate with industry and partners to advance the knowledge and action of the economic value of Safety and Engaged leadership in NS

Nova Scotia Women in Technology NSWIT

Connect business graduates

Business development programs : Help implement existing programs in a different way

Help new university graduates to stay in Halifax NS

USA Bilateral Trade Programs

Reach out to mentor youth/immigrants through programs such as HP Connector program

Marine Innovation Center

Development of new Halifax economic strategy

Educational seminars/workshops with high-school, community college, and university students about entrepreneurship and how to start a business

Continue to address negative attitudes through business promotion and highlighting success stories

Create national campaign to promote growth of NS and why we are top province to do business and live in

Collaborate; connect people; implement DOI

Take the risk on a new employee

Promote positive things happening in NS

Motivate successful small business to use young graduate to join their firms and recruit to accelerate growth of perspective business readers

Expand: Association of industry sector councils

Champion the importance of businesses hiring youth and recent immigrants

Discuss : There are built-in structural conflicts with the way entrepreneurism is nurtured in NS

Start and finance a bursary award for someone seeking to better themselves through a college education in NS

WIPSI

YES NS Mentorship

UIT: Clusters of ICT sector learning and business

New Dawn : Creative industry clusters in Sydney

Graduate to Opportunities program

Fusion  HFX