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Mainstreaming Entrepreneurial Habits in Students

Explore the transformation of entrepreneurial ideas into mainstream through innovative infrastructure and actions, fostering a conducive environment for student success. Leveraging digital tools, collaborative creativity, and industry integration to shape future creative leaders. Witness the effects of entrepreneurial content in teaching, learning, and real projects. Get insights from change agents and successful entrepreneurs, driving a shift towards a more entrepreneurial academic culture. Embrace the opportunities of micro-businesses, incubator hubs, and student-led initiatives, preparing students for the gig economy. Dive into the cultural transformation journey, shaping a new generation of innovative thinkers.

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Mainstreaming Entrepreneurial Habits in Students

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  1. Mainstreaming Entrepreneurial Habits in Students Input from 2010: enabling actions and infrastructure to transform organisation into desired strategic position: major USP Vision 2015-2018: “shape creative leaders of future, promoting instinct for innovation cultivated from collaborative creativity”

  2. Cultural Transformation of ideas into Mainstream Listening/writing up (2012) by Paula Grayson (researcher/occasional lecturer) with 33 passionate change agents; Harri Kamalanathan: change agent then entrepreneur taking transformation ideas into heart of all processes (mainstreaming)

  3. New Building in Enterprise Location

  4. 21c Infrastructure for 21c Subjects Less paper/buying or borrowing laptops From lathes/silk screen printing machines to 3D modelling on site Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle) fully enabled for multiple users using wi-fi and plug-in Joint research pages on VLE: students, staff equally considered

  5. Digital learning for Digital natives Given age group/subject interest: teaching and learning strategies emphasising digital processes digital materials/outputs digital self-directed learning international learning via electronic means embedded digital entrepreneurs

  6. Employability for fragmented industries and gig economy No large organisations for these sectors Highly competitive industries Micro businesses: entrepreneurial owners Greatest opportunities via own business Incubator hub visible from learning spaces Internal/external entrepreneurial businesses working with students Paid by hour/task not month

  7. More Entrepreneurial Academics Most academics running own businesses in expertise areas Increased use of industry sessionals (up-to-date technology on site) Increased exhibitions/award entries/links to industry

  8. Entrepreneurial Content in teaching and learning Time, cost, application matter Critiques by academics, industry link people, other students with business emphasis in realistic environment Real projects on site in complex environments Real work assessed

  9. Entrepreneurial wider testing Students entered into entrepreneurial competitions (national, international) Ravensbourne degree show: student led/run; most courses fully involved Cross fertilisation between courses: formal, informal, organisational

  10. Research method No control group since culture change “way we do things around here, dramatically” Interviews using Grounded Theory (simultaneous; social processes; inductive (Glazer and Strauss 1967) Meta themes: Artefacts, Espoused Values, Basic underlying assumptions/values (Schein, 2004)

  11. Harri Kamalanathan: change agent to Entrepreneur 2002: Arrived from Denmark, aged 12 years 2008: Accepted on Broadcast Operations course at Ravensbourne 2010: Ran content for Degree Show 2011: Elected Student Union President. Soft launch of Haus Pictures 2012: Ravensbourne marketing team introduction to first paying client

  12. Harri Kamalanathan: change agent to Entrepreneur 2012: BA Hons Broadcast Operations and Production; moved into Incubator Hub to run Haus Pictures full-time 2013: First major contract leading to monthly retainer; first short public funded film 2015: Music video nominated for MOBO 2016: Short film accepted for Sundance. Commission from BFI

  13. Strategic Plan 2015-2018 Core Values: Be Creative Be integrated with industry Be inclusive

  14. Mainstreaming Entrepreneurial Habits in Students e.g. Associate Dean: “running own business: Desitecture: polycultural prototypes for inhabitation, published internationally. Futures of sustainable high density re-inhabitation/re-use. Impact of digital realm, rapid prototyping” Layton Reid (2016)

  15. Research and Awards (extracts) e.g. papers at: Low cost Housing Conference (2016) High Density Housing conference (2014) Vertical Cities/high density conference, Hong Kong (2013) World Architecture Festival; Shortlist Experimental Architecture (2012); Shortlist Masterplanning (2011); Shortlist Best Experimental Architecture (2010)

  16. Entrepreneurial habits in students “Supervised construction site visit, collecting data (notes, photographs, sketches); back to studio; projection/sound technologies for immersive learning in context; simulated environment image/sound (video). Students interact with media; lecturer facilitates; co-creation; subliminal subject specific environment, reinforcing connections, through digital means”.

  17. Effect on Students 2015/16: “unprecedented rise in all areas of student satisfaction, the highest increase in any HE institution ever” Layton Reid, Associate Dean

  18. Haus Pictures (with internal spaces from Ravensbourne) Digital showreel - https://vimeo.com/130590177

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