Christy Benson, Gary Palin present to European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Christy Benson, assistant professor of business law and ethics, and Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship, presented Feb. 25 in the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Webinar Series.

The two Elon faculty members co-presented with Cynthia Clemons, director of entrepreneurship at Bennett College in Greensboro.

Benson, Palin and Clemons’ presentation, “Connecting Social Entrepreneurship Activities Across Universities,” focused on reviewing resources and strategies to share best practices, exchange ideas, form collaborations and to develop better integrated strategies across campus’s globally. Participants represented universities from Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Portugal, Spain and the United States.

The European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) is a non-profit organization whose objective is to advance the understanding of entrepreneurship and to improve the competitiveness of SMEs in Europe. The ECSB is an affiliation to the International Council for Small Business.