Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at Ryerson University, where he is also the founding director of Zone Learning. The approach supports students from across campus who pursue ideas for innovation and entrepreneurship across a series of 10 domain-specific incubators, or zones, on campus. This innovation ecosystem offers startups dedicated workspace and equipment, access to a network of industry and community mentors, a community of likeminded creative and ambitious students, and a flexible multidisciplinary experiential learning curriculum that leads to a formal academic credential.