70 likes | 225 Views
Chair of Enterprise Educators UK Director Southampton Business School. Dr Simon Brown. Enterprise Summit on Developing People for Growth and Innovation. Incubating Ideas to Start-ups. Growing capacity and interest. Embed enterprise education within the curriculum.
E N D
Chair of Enterprise Educators UK Director Southampton Business School Dr Simon Brown
Enterprise Summit on Developing People for Growth and Innovation Incubating Ideas to Start-ups
Growing capacity and interest • Embed enterprise education within the curriculum. • Queen's University, Belfast has been named as the Times Higher Education Entrepreneurial University of the Year. Presenting the award Prof Paul Hannon (NCGE) said: "Queen's University is simply an excellent example of what we were looking for from an entrepreneurial university - strong leadership and vision, real student engagement, innovative faculty and clear evidence of the impact they have made in their local environment."
Or build space in the curriculum • SPEED (http://www.isbe.org.uk/SPEED) • Student Placements for Entrepreneurs in EDucation (SPEED) was a HEIF funded project led by Wolverhampton University with many other Universities across the country taking part. The aim of the project was to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need to start up their own businesses. Each of the 13-16 partners has a specific package of measures in place to see individuals through from business idea/concept to fully functioning companies.
Or provide space outside the curriculum • The Hive Nottingham Trent - http://ntu.ac.uk/hive/ • The Hatchery Sheffield Hallam University - http://students.shu.ac.uk/services/enterprise/hatchery.html • Commercial innovation - http://www.e-innovationcentre.co.uk/
Or engage student societies • Individual University society - http://www.southampton.ac.uk/studententerprise/universitysupport/fishfood.html • Collaborative University groups - http://www.setsquared.co.uk/Student+Enterprise • National voice - http://www.nacue.com/
Some examples • Mozzo Coffee. http://www.mozzocoffee.com/about-mozzo/the-mozzo-story/ • Delicious Alchemy - http://www.deliciousalchemy.co.uk/ • Digicom - http://ntu.ac.uk/hive/who_we_have_helped/success_stories/digicom_solutions.html