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Enterprise education in an Olympic year: sprint or
decathlon?
31st Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship Conference – Belfast, 2008
Andrew Corcoran
7th November 2008
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‘Our’ Entrepreneurial Olympian
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•Six years of business
start-up activity
•HEIF3 SPEED pilot
•Uncertain M/L term
success
•Diverse audience of
student entrepreneurs
Context
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Objectives•Looking beyond start-up
support (1-3 years)
•Who needs help?
•When do they need it?
•What needs?
•Role for enterprise
education?
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About our audience
Art, Media, Design, Music, 72
Engineering, 9
Medicine, 2
Management, Marketing, Finance,
37Sport, Health, 5
ICT, Computing, 28
Languages, Social Sciences, 8
Environmental Sciences, 4
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About our audience
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Our plan
•750 SPEEDies (T=50)
•Via local project
managers at 10 HEIs
•Online survey
•£10 Amazon voucher
•n=165, 22% response
•Choice of response
options
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Findings - evolution•Significant skills development needs beyond start-
up phase (e.g. cash flow, employment law)
•Dynamic (c. 1 year) portfolio career
•Multiple tools for busy learners (core of workshops
supported by other tools)
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Findings - value•Need for entrepreneurial
skills even if not intending to
start a venture
•Focus on specific and
relevant skills (case studies)
•Invest 16 days and £678
p.a. on CPE/D
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Findings - model
University courses
19%
Private training providers
16%
Conferences11%
Professional networking
15%
Books22%
Videos6%
Internet downloads
11%
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Strategy
Finance
LeadershipMarketing
HRICT
Management
Administration
Service
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What are the implications?
•Improved success of the
venture beyond 3 years
•Move to sustainable
portfolio careers
•Integrating the roles of
e-, m-, distance learning
and coaching/mentoring
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•Clear link with Lifelong
Learning agenda targeting
non-traditional learners
•Longitudinal study
•Continuing Professional
Education/Development
for SME owner-managers
Next steps
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Enterprise education but not as we know it . . .
• NOT an MBA
•Chartered entrepreneur?
• Additional dividend of
entrepreneurial faculty
•Principally unaccredited
•Huge ongoing positive
social and economic
impact