What is it all about?
Entrepreneurial Institution (EI) will provide targeted events offering sharp, intensive, immediate teaching, training and support to help institutions and the people who work and study within them to galvanise real change and enhance their fitness to compete in the 21st century.
EI's overarching ambition is to produce more innovative managers, teachers, students, graduates and researchers.
The programme is made up of two types of events:
1. Challenge Workshops
This is a 2 hour session which will challenge your knowledge of entrepreneurship and how it functions within your Educational Institution.
These will be focused on specific topics and allow for more in depth exploration of the topics covered in a Challenge workshop.
Who is it for?
EI is a national programme striving to embed entrepreneurship and innovation across further education and higher education institutions. We will work with over 100 universities and colleges over the next three years and engage with:
Doug’s presentations were excellent and by far some of the best I’ve seen. Actually thought that it was not going to be relevant to me, but I found it fascinating... It certainly whets the appetite for more."
Enterprising Academic attendee 2011
Benefits:
Our aim is to drive an understanding of entrepreneurship that will result in a tangible impact on the economy and enhance the culture of further education and higher education institutions.
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Higher Education |
Further Education |
| Leaders |
- Increase student employability by instilling entrepreneurial skills such as initiative, drive and creativity as core institutional values
- Lead a more profitable institution by enabling researchers to link their academic accomplishments to industry and beyond
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- Enhance your institutions status as the lead generator of entrepreneurial activity within the local community.
- Equip your students with enterprising skills which will help them find and create employment
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| Educators |
- Explore the possibilities of presenting enterprise as a way of thinking, applicable to all forms of teaching rather than a stand-alone subject
- Learn the latest thinking on the effectiveness of enterprise teaching
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- Learn the latest enterprise teaching techniques
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| Researchers |
- Protect yourselves from funding cuts by learning to link your intellectual accomplishments to the profit potential of industry
- Learn all the ways your research can have an impact
- Identify when your research has the potential to be a profitable business.
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| Students |
- Acquire the skills to increase your employability or create your own job.
- Learn how to identify when an idea has the potential to be a profitable business.
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- Learn the key elements an idea needs to have to become a profitable business.
- Get the skills you need to increase your employability, plan your career or start your own business
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