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Entrepreneurship Education in Europe. A Vision and a Roadmap. Prof Paul D. Hannon, Director of Research and Education National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship, UK 20 th May 2008. An Entrepreneurial Journey?. Visions of an entrepreneurial future What can/should we influence?
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Entrepreneurship Education in Europe A Vision and a Roadmap Prof Paul D. Hannon, Director of Research and Education National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship, UK 20th May 2008
An Entrepreneurial Journey? • Visions of an entrepreneurial future • What can/should we influence? • A road less travelled? • Stepping forward • International Entrepreneurship Educators Programme (IEEP) • And finally ................
Visions of an entrepreneurial future • The Entrepreneurial University • The Entrepreneurial Graduate Career • The Entrepreneurial Educator • The Entrepreneurial Stakeholder Partner Opportunities for All Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindsets Needs-Driven Action/Practice Focus Embedded and Normalised
The Entrepreneurial University is: • A great environment for encouraging entrepreneurial behaviours, thinking and opportunity; • Cross-campus approach creating access to all students; • Multi-disciplinary working across academic faculties and departments; • Engages external stakeholders in the design and delivery of entrepreneurship provision; • Has strong institutional leadership and support; • Takes a broad conceptual approach to entrepreneurship as being more than starting a business; • Teaching focuses on ‘for’ rather than ‘about’ entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurial Educator .... • Creates learning environments which encourage entrepreneurial behaviour in students and graduates; • Designs entrepreneurship curricula in which are embedded desired learning outcomes; • Exploits new opportunities for enhancing the student experience; • Engages entrepreneurs and business with students in learning opportunities; • Is innovative in his/her approach to teaching, experimenting with different pedagogies • Is a leader able to shape the opportunity learning environment
INSTITUTION CONCEPT WHAT DO WE WANT TO INFLUENCE? WHAT CAN WE INFLUENCE? AND HOW? INSTITUTION ORGANISATION INSTITUTION STRATEGY INSTITUTION CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTION STAKEHOLDER/ COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
A road less travelled? • New ways of: • Seeing, behaving, doing, thinking, communicating, organising, learning • And BEING • New institutional models, approaches, policies • New teaching and learning practices and modes of assessment • New educator roles, responsibilities and rewards? • New .......... ?
Stepping Forward • Understanding and sharing good practice • Building a more robust underpinning to what we do • Identifying the contributions of our practices to achieving entrepreneurial outcomes • Changing the paradigm to open up more opportunities • Supporting educator development • Enhancing value, status, incentives, rewards • Institutional integration and stakeholder engagement • Creating exemplar institutions conducive to enterprise and entrepreneurship
IEEP – A Real Entrepreneurial Journey • Broad conceptualisation of entrepreneurship (in) education • A pedagogic smorgasbord • Affecting change through individual action and institutional influence • Grounded in 2 frameworks – Mastery and Outcomes • Educator as a performer/actor and as a leader • Adventure, fun and games, exploratory, risk, opportunity • Global perspective – China, Denmark, USA
Educator as Master • Mastery of Pedagogy • Mastery of Philosophy • Mastery of Strategy • Mastery of Operations • Mastery of Networks • Mastery of Process • Mastery of the State of the Game • Mastery of Resource Acquisition • Mastery of Personal Entrepreneurship
DEVELOPING ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPACITIES Entrepreneurial behaviours, skills and attitudes Empathy with the entrepreneurial life Embedded entrepreneurial values Motivation to entrepreneurial careers/lives Understanding venture creation processes Developing generic entrepreneurial competencies Key business ‘how-to’s Key relationship networking skills
The ‘BIG’ Challenge:Are we ‘Fit for the Future?’CAN WE DELIVER OUR VISION? • 3rd International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference • 8th – 10th September Canary Wharf London • 250 educators from over 20 nations • Speakers and contributors from across the globe