The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development ( CIED ), conceptualized circa 2004 was formally established in 2009 in BIMTECH. The centre aims to prepare men and women to lead, innovate, and think entrepreneurially in business, public and social service, to be job creators and role models. Whether it is the individual entrepreneur, or an ‘intrapreneurial’ professional employee who provides the innovative ideas needed to grow an existing company, or someone in governmental leadership, it is the ability to envision a future, to be driven by a mission, to think innovatively about the mundane, and to move forward with self-confidence that our country needs to retain its greatness.