Entrepreneurial Exchange Young Enterprise 5B

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Entrepreneurial ExchangeYoung Enterprise5B

• Alison Price
• Director of Educator Development
• NCGE

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The National Driver for Enterprise and
Entrepreneurship in Higher Education

• NCGE aims to  
• lead long term cultural change in our
  universities
• shape the institutional environment for
  enterprise and entrepreneurship and embed good
  practice
• increase the number of graduate businesses
• inform regional and national policies that affect
  enterprise
• www.ncge.com
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Why? The National Drivers

• Changes in HEI sector
• Enterprise in Higher Education 1980s
• Dearing 1997
• UK Science Enterprise Challenge 99
• Lambert 2003
• National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship
  2004
• Enterprise Strategy Unlocking Talent April
  08
• Innovation Nation White Paper (DIUS) 2008
• UENs 2009

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Importance in HE?

• Progression and achievement
• Redefine and improve skills for learning
• Enhance employability
• Self employment, business start up, employment
• Curriculum enhancement
• Changing the approach to learning and teaching
• Recruitment
• Commercial opportunities
• Spin-offs from research, patents and licensing
• Changing culture and aspirations
• National, regional, sub-regional, institutional
• Individual mindset and attitude

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Role of Enterprise

• EMPLOYABILITY
• Acquisition of employability skills
• Getting a graduate job
• Benefits economy

• ENTERPRISE
• Understanding of own abilities
• Making a difference in work
• Generator of future opportunities

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Graduates

• University graduates are crucial contributors to
  the economy
• 70 of the UKs top 200 fastest growing companies
  founded and run by graduates
• 83 of the UKs fastest growing technology
  companies founded and run by graduates
• Creating conditions in our universities for
  entrepreneurship to flourish is one of the most
  sustainable ways of nurturing creative and
  productive talent contributing to economic growth
  and social cohesion.

Source Analysis of 2008 FastTrack 200 and
TechTrack 100.
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Lessons Graduate 2009ur s

• will have 19 different jobs and 7 separate
  careers
• will apply for jobs we dont even have names for
  yet!

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• Entrepreneurial Stakeholder Partnerships
• EC University-Business Collaborations
• UK University Enterprise Networks (UENs
  www.ncge.com/uen)
• Entrepreneurial Institutions
• Towards the Entrepreneurial University Models
  and strategies
• NCGE Entrepreneurial Outcomes Framework
• Leadership development with SAID Business
  School, Oxford University
• Developing Entrepreneurial Graduates Report
• Benchmarking Framework
• National Institutional Awards

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• Entrepreneurial Educators
• Mastery Framework to shape future leadership
• International Entrepreneurship Educators
  Programme (IEEP) IEEC
• Recognition/Career Enhancement professional,
  academic
• Building communities educators, researchers,
  careers professionals
• International Links
• Entrepreneurial Students/Graduates
• Flying Start Graduate Entrepreneurship Programmes
• Flying Start Online (www.flyingstartonline.com)

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Priorities for Action
The Entrepreneurial University
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Source Prof Allan Gibb
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Female Graduates

• Barriers

• Opportunities offered

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Female Graduates

• Venture readiness support
• 12 month programme
• Kauffman Foundation
• http//www.flyingstartonline.com/

• Barriers

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• FlyingStart makes it happen supporting and
  developing graduate start-ups from idea to
  implementation.
• FlyingStartOnline, FlyingStart Programmes,
  FlyingStart Rallies (in association with
  MakeYourMark), and FlyingStart Global
  Entrepreneurs are the four aspects of this.
• The FlyingStartOnline community has expanded to
  over 12,000 students and graduates since
  November.
• Join www.flyingstartonline.com for mentoring and
  support its free!

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Network share

• IEEC International Enterprise Educators
  Conference 2009
• Edinburgh, Scotland
• Register now http//www.ieec.co.uk/index.php?pag
  eregister

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Thank you

• Alison Price
• alison.price_at_ncge.org.uk
• Flying Start
• http//www.flyingstartonline.com/