ISSUE 7 | April 2017

Henley Centre for Entrepreneurship

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HCfE Celebrates Ten Year Anniversary

The Henley Centre for Entrepreneurship is celebrating its tenth

year since forming back in 2007. As part of the celebrations HCfE

staff have been reflecting on the Centre’s origins, along with the

Centre’s mission and aims for the future, by writing up an ‘Origins

and Overview’ document. This document is designed to provide

outsiders with an understanding of HCfE’s background,

pioneering research, projects and initiatives.

Prof Andrew Godley, lead-author of the ‘Origins and Overview’ document

Prof Andrew Godley, Academic Director for HCfE, spoke about

the purpose of the document:

“Our intention is that the document is a resource for all of us to

draw on and use as needed in future discussions, presentations,

bidding documents and other activities. Producing the document

has been a joint effort and my sincere thanks go to my co-authors

Jurek Sikorski, Keith Heron and Dr Marrisa Joseph.”

You can read the document yourself at the following link:

https://www.henley.ac.uk/files/pdf/research/research-

centres/HCfE_Origins_and_Overview.pdf

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Entrepreneurship Society Delivers

Events for Students

The student-led Entrepreneurship Society has grown its

membership and is delivering more events than ever. Over the last

six months, the Entrepreneurship Society has held many events.

Here are some of the highlights:

10th October 2016: ‘Young Entrepreneurs’ Talk, with Guest

Speaker Ollie Forsyth

Over 60 students attended a talk led by Ollie Forsyth, the founder

of TBE Club, TBE Magazine and Ollie's Shop, as well as co-

founder of Unibell. Ollie talked about his previous year in

business and current ventures including the TBE Club’s launch

and the plans for the continuing growth of Ollie’s Shop. His talk

was filled with useful tips on making it by yourself, how to build

your network, the difficulty in legal and accounting aspects and

how to find your passion in changing the world.

“A brilliant talk to get the ball running this year” – Emily Large,

Event Manager

The audience listen to Ollie Forsyth’s talk

26th October 2016: ‘Talks by Leading Entrepreneurs’ Event,

with Guest Speaker Julianne Ponan

Julianne Ponan, CEO Creative Nature, gave an inspiring talk on

her attitude towards business. She highlighted to the audience the

importance of a personal passion in business, which can stem from

personal experiences where you can stumble across a problem that

many are suffering from. In Julianne’s situation it was promoting

health and superfoods in an ethical and environmental way and the

society members gained some major insights into both the food

industry and forming a business from the foundations up.

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Julianne Ponan addresses the audience

14th November 2016: ‘Business Management in Finance

Uncovered’ Talk, with Guest Speakers from Fidelity

Four members of financial services company Fidelity came to

Henley Business School to talk about their experiences, focusing

on bringing together critical thinking, capability and a fresh

approach to help drive change and implement innovative solutions

across an organisation. The guest speakers discussed interactive

games and how clients must be at the heart of every business and

its investment decisions.

18th January 2017: Founders Q&A Panel

Four experienced entrepreneurs made up a panel of experts that

answered questions from the audience. The panel members were:

Tim Brownstone – CEO of KYMIRA

Seth Allen – CEO of Agribusiness Academy

Charlotte Roach – Founder of Rabble

Emma Cranstoun – Co-Founder of Scrubbingtons

This event worked well due to its unique question and answer

format, allowing for the best possible engagement from the

audience. From the questions a group conversation grew and

several subjects were debated. The talk covered various aspects of

an entrepreneur’s life and each business was from a different

background and industry, which helped to push the important

message of picking your own passion to build your empire on.

1st February 2017: ‘How to Get Your Product to Market’

Talk, with Guest Speaker Thor Mitchell

Thor Mitchell, Chief Product Officer at equity crowdfunding

platform Crowdcube, spoke to the society members about the

manager’s perspective of getting a product out to the market.

Thor’s previous experience of working at Google for nine years as

an Engineer and Product Manager shone through as he discussed

the planning, networking and many more important factors that

are essential to getting a new product out on the shelves.

Thor Mitchell presenting to students

8th March 2017: ‘Create Your Own App’ Talk, with Guest

Speaker Piers Rudgard-Redsell

The Entrepreneurship Society invited Piers Rudgard-Redsell to

deliver a talk to an assembled audience of students. Piers is the

founder of Airbyte, the company who designed the University of

Reading’s app and collaborate on huge projects in conjunction

with Apple, Google, Amazon Web Services and Judo. Piers, along

with two of his colleagues, talked about his work and history,

before taking the students through a 10 step guide on setting up an

app. These steps ranged from building a wireframe to selling to

huge investors and Piers also gave insights on some of the best

software to use, what makes each unique and how they will

complement the aims of the app creator.

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IDEAFEST Business IDEA

Competition 2017 Receives Record

Number of Entries

The fourth annual IDEAFEST Business Idea Competition, which

each year aims to find the best business idea from University of

Reading students, has received a record number of entries. With

27 student teams applying, more than double the previous year’s

submissions, the judges have picked six entries to present at the

final.

The lucky finalists are:

Peter Challis, Wealth Collective: An online investment club that

provides crowd managed funds.

Lucas Cimino, Dusk to Dawn: A purchasing platform app that

connects integrated nightclubs and clubgoers.

Daniyar Medetov, FeedMyPet: A smart feeder for pets with the

aim of feeding pets remotely through a Wi-Fi connected automatic

feeder.

Immanuel Neumeier, Macrofit: A macro-balanced fresh meals

service delivered by a food truck.

Magnus Ronning, Ronning Co: An online fashion clothes

company, targeting streetwear-loving young consumers through

direct social media sales channels set up around video blogging.

Elle Voysey, Choc Fu: A dessert company offering a range of

desserts with health credentials.

Students are invited to join the audience, support the finalists and

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participate in the audience vote for the best business idea at the

final. This will be held on Wednesday 26th April 2017, starting at

2:00pm in room G10 of the Henley Business School building,

Whiteknights Campus.

Students will also be able to meet the 2016 Competition winner

Ross Murphy, a BA Business and Management undergraduate at

Henley Business School.

Further information about the 2017 Competition can be found at

http://www.henley.ac.uk/ideafest

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KYMIRA Wins Henley Best Start-Up

and Innovation of the Year Competition

In a close fought contest, hosted by HCfE and sponsored by

NatWest and Renal Services Ltd, local sportswear technology

company KYMIRA secured the judges’ vote to win both the Best

Start-Up and Best Innovation categories of the Henley Best Start-

Up Business Competition 2016.

Competition winner Tim Brownstone

Five start-ups set up by University of Reading graduates –

KYMIRA, MyFalcon, Nourished, TimeTrap Escape Rooms and

Wisdom Spring – were selected to contest the inaugural final, held

on 7th December 2016 at the Henley Business School.

KYMIRA impressed the panel of judges with a combination of a

clear product focus, strong intellectual property, customer traction

and a capable management team.

Collecting a cheque for £5,000, Tim said:

“It is fantastic to see that the University, led by Henley Centre for

Entrepreneurship, is putting in place such a brilliant network of

events, lectures and mentors to support the thriving

entrepreneurial community on campus. There were some brilliant

companies competing so to have won not one but both of the

categories at the Competition is a real honour.”

Competition Sponsors:

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HCfE Co-hosts Session at Brittlestand

Symposium

HCfE joined with PwC and the ScaleUp Institute to co-host a

break out session at the first Brittlestand Symposium on 22nd

September 2016.

Titled ‘Strategies to access growth finance for larger scale-ups’,

the session drew a large audience of SMEs seeking to find out

how to access funds for scaling an established business.

Jurek Sikorski, Executive Director of HCfE, shared his personal

experience whilst CEO of SRS Technology of financing a

company from start-up through to flotation on AIM.

Jurek answered some often asked questions including ‘How much

finance should I raise?’ and ‘When should I raise finance and from

which source?’ and concluded with his top ten tips on raising

finance on AIM.

HCfE is collaborating with Chris Dodson OBE, Chairman of

Torftech and co-founder of Business United, which created the

Brittlestand Symposium. HCfE intends to host the second

Symposium in September 2017 at Henley Business School.

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HCfE Events Deliver Great Insights for

Students and SMEs

Talks on Enterprise Development

Juliette Stacey, Group CEO of Mabey Holdings, delivered a talk

titled ‘Shoring your Foundation for Growth’ on 20th March 2017.

Juliette Stacey, Group CEO of Mabey Holdings

Addressing an audience of SMEs and Masters in Entrepreneurship

students, Juliette shared her personal experiences of developing a

high growth business. Juliette revealed how a business can start

strong with a vision but then lose momentum and have its very

survival threatened. She spoke passionately about Mabey’s

journey from a family run business to a business run by a board of

external professional managers and covered how Mabey had

withstood a “storm” to come through the other side, looking to a

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bright future of digital engineering and robotic manufacturing.

Juliette said that her company’s policy was to “hire talented before

you need them” and spoke in depth about training and support for

staff and she ended her talk by discussing how to best explain the

impact Mabey has had:

“It has been difficult to describe what Mabey does without talking

about engineering and we’ve had many an attempt to find a simple

description. Mabey enables communities to live and grow.”

The talk by Juliette followed an equally successful talk by Sean

Taylor, CEO of Redwood Technologies Group on 12th October

2016.

Sean Taylor, CEO of Redwood Technologies Group

There was a real sense of honesty and insightfulness about the

talk, titled ‘Survival and Growth using Re-invention’. The talk

was given by Sean, who with his brother Martin co-founded

Redwood Technologies in 1993.

A computer scientist who graduated from King’s College London,

Sean has built a very successful international company serving

many of the large companies from Panasonic to HSBC to AXA to

Vodafone in over 50 countries. Redwood Technologies, which in

2016 won the ‘Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation’, grew

by over 30% and in 2017 will grow by more.

Speakers’ Panels

On 10th November 2016 HCfE hosted a Speakers’ Panel titled

‘Leadership 4.0 – Successful Leadership in the Fourth Industrial

Revolution’.

Prof Andrew Godley, Academic Director of HCfE, opened the

event and described how businesses and universities are working

together to better understand leadership and provide insights to

help business leaders, as exemplified by the Digital Leadership

Forum at Henley Business School. You can find out more at

http://www.henley.ac.uk/digital-leadership/forum

The panel consisted of four SME business leaders – Claire

Edmunds, Founder and CEO of Clarify, Sam Clark, Founder and

MD of Conjure, Dan Daly, CEO and Co-founder of Lein Applied

Diagnostics, and David Taylor, MD of Prodrive Advance

Technology. Between them they shared their experiences and

collectively highlighted the importance of engaging all employees

in innovation and adopting digital technologies.

Claire Edmunds, CEO of Clarify Sam Clark, MD of Conjure

Claire raised what is recognised by many as an important aspect of

leadership, especially in the new age of rapidly advancing

technologies: setting the ‘values’ and conducting business on the

basis of having values that guide and build a culture of fulfilling

not just business objectives, but employee satisfaction and

development.

Sam shared stories of working with likes of McLaren, the British

Museum and Jaguar Land Rover and emphasised how important it

is to connect with and work closely with customers, listening to

what they need. What is refreshing about Conjure and what

exemplifies Sam’s leadership is that he encourages all employees

to tinker, develop and experiment with the latest digital

technology tools. This ensures Conjure finds and adopts those that

make a difference, allowing Conjure to stay ahead of the curve.

Sam added that “all tools used at Conjure are cloud based”.

On 20th February 2017 HCfE hosted the ‘Building a Sustainable

Competitive Advantage’ Speakers’ Panel. The purpose of this

Speakers’ Panel was to address the question ‘how do we succeed

in the long term?’ by revealing what several ambitious SMEs are

practicing.

Jurek Sikorski, Henley Centre for Entrepreneurship Executive Director

Opening the presentations was Jurek Sikorski, Executive Director

for HCfE. Jurek spoke about the three critical success factors that

were needed to sustain a competitive advantage: strong intellectual

property, a viable business model and superior organizational

processes, capabilities and resources.

The first speaker was Jon Harrison, Director of Professional

Services for Fairsail. Jon talked about the three things that have

given Fairsail a competitive advantage: people, an innovative

product and an amazing customer experience.

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Jon Harrison, Director of Professional Services for Fairsail

Following Jon was Claire Hewitt, Managing Director of PCG

System Solutions. Claire described the company’s history, both

pre- and post-acquirement by a US based firm, and described

PCG’s sustainable competitive advantage to be a focus on people,

markets and the business model, along with making brave choices

and new product development and IP creation.

Claire Hewitt, Managing Director of PCG System Solutions

The next speaker was the Founder and CEO of SoundOut, David

Courtier-Dutton. David displayed the six pieces of SoundOut’s

competitive advantage: technology, panel quality and speed,

automation, a unified research platform, a route to market and a

low cost and high margin.

David Courtier-Dutton, Founder and CEO of SoundOut

Last to speak was Dr Jamie Wilson, Founder and CEO of

HomeTouch. Jamie’s company addresses the growing problem of

enabling families to find a trusted and life time carer for loved

ones. Jamie’s solution was simple but innovative; an online

marketplace connecting vetted carers with care seekers, bypassing

the traditional home care agency which does little to address the

need for trusted lifetime care.

Dr Jamie Wilson, Founder and CEO of HomeTouch

After Jamie had spoken, the audience had a chance to ask

questions. The Q&A picked up a number of other factors

important in building a sustainable competitive advantage,

including ‘speed’ in execution, rewarding people for their

contribution in the form of share options as well as bonus

payment, and awarding recognition and having ‘fun’.

Full news of the events can be found at

www.henley.ac.uk/newsandevents

These events were sponsored by James Cowper Kreston and supported by

the Berkshire Business Growth Hub:

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Announcing Events for Summer 2017

HCfE is delighted to announce the upcoming summer events for

SMEs and students of entrepreneurship.

22nd May 2017: ‘Putting innovation at the heart of your business

strategy’ Speakers’ Panel

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12th June 2017: Eighth talk in ‘Talks on Enterprise Development’

by Adam Hale, CEO of Fairsail

Both events are to be held at 6:00pm in room G10 of the Henley

Business School building, Whiteknights Campus.

Book your place at these events by visiting

http://www.henley.ac.uk/hcfe-news-and-events

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Henley Business Incubator Receives a

Facelift

The Henley Start-Up Business Incubator, home to six start-ups

and a work place for several students developing ideas for

businesses, underwent some major renovations in December 2016.

A complete redecoration, fitted carpets and a new kitchen were

just some of the things that the stand-alone building at the Science

and Technology Centre received.

The Business Incubator’s renovations

The occupants spoke of positively about the renovations, with

Rebecca Herbert, CEO of Wisdom Spring, saying:

“I’m delighted with the new facelift. It makes the building much

brighter and fun to work at.”

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Henley Business Angels Host Company

Presentations

Following the official launch at a reception with Sir David Bell,

Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading, two company

presentations events have been hosted by the Henley Business

Angels (HBA).

A total of 12 early stage business with high growth potential have

presented to HBA over the two events. KYMIRA is the first to

receive investment from the HBA members and several other are

discussing investment with HBA members.

Emma Cranstoun and Karen Waring, co-founders of Scrubbington’s,

present to the Angels at the inaugural event

The events feature companies pitching for investment and

exhibiting their products and services to members of HBA.

HBA, which is managed by an Executive Committee under the

auspices of the board of HBA Ltd, receives sponsorship for the

events. HCfE is delighted to announce that Barclays and PwC

have joined Shoosmiths in sponsoring HBA, whilst VitalSix have

become partners to deliver HBA support to entrepreneurs and

members.

HBA sponsors:

HBA delivery partners:

HBA is a member of the UK Business Angels Association.

Further details about HBA can be found at

http://www.henleybusinessangels.com

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Rise in Graduates Endorsed for Tier

One (Graduate Entrepreneur) Visa

Three recent graduates, Noopur Johri, Karla Pena and Sungok

Kim, have been endorsed by HCfE for their Tier One (Graduate

Entrepreneur) visa this year. The Tier One visa allows graduates

from outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland to stay

in the UK after finishing their studies, on the basis that they have a

genuine and credible business idea that they are looking to

establish and are endorsed by a university.

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The number of endorsements issued is higher than the number

issued during 2015-2016. Subject to the visa scheme continuing

next year, HCfE expects the number to increase again in 2017-

2018.

Speaking about her endorsement, Noopur said:

“It gives me the opportunity to transform my business idea into

reality and contribute towards the UK economy. The support of

the Henley Centre for Entrepreneurship in my endeavour is very

encouraging and motivating. The mentors at the Centre have been

extremely supportive; the business idea clinic with Jurek made us

think of various possibilities, challenge assumptions and opened

us up to the reality of actually executing an idea in the practical

business environment.”

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HCfE Hosts Visitors From MGIMO,

Russia

Two separate visits from Moscow State Institute of International

Relations (MGIMO) were hosted by HCfE earlier this year, in

collaboration with the Centre for Euro-Asian Studies.

Three directors from MGIMO Incubator visited Henley Business

School on 27th and 28th February 2017 for discussion with HCfE

after receiving a grant of over £70,000 from the British Embassy

in Russia to develop the project titled ‘Business Incubation 3.0:

Networking for sustainable growth, entrepreneurship support and

best practices exchange’.

The visit was organised to share and exchange knowledge and

practices in supporting start-up businesses. The four guests, Yury

Sumin, Timur Radaev, Alena Arhipova and Tatiana Kamenskaia,

came as a delegation of the winners among the best Directors of

Russian Business Incubators.

During the first day the MGIMO guests were welcomed by Yelena

Kalyuzhnova, Director of CEAS, and Andrew Godley, Academic

Director of HCfE. The guests spent the whole day with Jurek

Sikorski, Executive Director of HCfE, who presented the range of

extracurricular events and initiatives that help students launch

their entrepreneurial career.

The guests toured the Henley Start-Up Business Incubator and

Andrew Godley spoke about the history of entrepreneurship and

the ambitions of HCfE to expand and create a strong and world

class entrepreneurship ecosystem.

The visitors also spent their time at the Innovation Works Centre

and heard from Tim Brownstone, CEO of sportswear company

KYMIRA. Tim shared his story about his business and how HCfE

and the Incubator have helped him start and grow his company to

where it is today, selling in all continents of the world.

Left to right: Timur Radaev (Director, Nizhny Novgorod Business

Incubator), Yury Sumin (Director General, JSC Technopark Sarov), Tim

Brownstone (CEO, KYMIRA), Phil Kunovski (CTO, KYMIRA), Alena

Arhipova (Director, Student Business Incubator at Artic Innovation Centre

Yakutsk), Tatiana Kamenskaia (Business Administrator, MGIMO

Business Incubator) and Jurek Sikorski (Executive Director, HCfE)

For the second day, the four MGIMO visitors spoke with members

of the Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour faculty. Keith

Heron discussed possible teaching avenues and opportunities with

the representatives of the Russian business community, whilst Dr

Norbert Morawetz and Dr Maks Belitski gave an open lecture.

The guests were impressed by the professionalism of the Henley

Business School’s staff and the exceptional quality of the

facilities, stating that they felt there were “fantastic facilities to

conduct business”.

In March 2017 HCfE entertained two postgraduate students from

Russia: Andrew Reduto, who won the university start-up

competition and studies modern aspects of marketing activities in

European telecommunications companies, and Anastasia

Krasenkova, who manages the MGIMO incubator projects and

studies industrial marketing of goods and services. The students

came to Henley Business School for one week as part of an

educational trip to the UK, under the support of the UK Embassy.

During their time at Henley Business School, the students visited

several lectures and had a chance to talk to both MBA and MSc

Entrepreneurship students. They were hosted by Keith Heron,

Director of MSc Entrepreneurship Programmes, and had detailed

mentoring with Jurek Sikorski, Executive Director of HCfE.

The students were pleased that during the trip they acquired many

valuable long-term contacts, which will prove to be important for

the future collaboration of MGIMO and Henley.

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Chinese Delegation Visits HCfE

On October 3-4 2016 Prof Andrew Godley, Academic Director for

HCfE, welcomed a large party of faculty and Deans from business

schools from the Zhejiang Province, China.

Andrew led a day’s workshop at Greenlands with Prof Zhongming

Wang (Zhejiang University and Visiting Professor, Henley Centre

for Entrepreneurship) on entrepreneurship teaching at Henley,

with a special focus on the theory-practice nexus.

The Chinese visitors were particularly taken by this integration of

theory and practice, notably with the visit to FabLab London (the

first purpose built digital fabrication and prototyping workspace in

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London and co-founded by alumnus Tony Fish), which regularly

hosts visits by our students.

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Henley London Alumni Pop-Up Lecture

The New Year got off to a tremendous start with Henley London

Alumni’s first pop-up lecture and social drinks evening. Ashley

Carter generously hosted the event at BDO’s offices.

Jurek Sikorski enlightened guests on the vast support available

from Henley for entrepreneurs and Ashley Dickson, head of

BDO’s high growth advisory, provided insights into common

issues faced by young businesses. Local social drinks followed

and attendees mingled, networked and had fun making new

friends and valuable connections.

Neil Poole, Chair of Henley London Alumni, stated:

“It’s wonderful seeing such active participation and support

across our community.”

From left to right: Jurek Sikorski, Neil Pool and Ashley Carter

Henley graduates seeking help to start a business or grow their

business should contact Jurek Sikorski at

jurek.sikorski@henley.ac.uk

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Dr Maks Belitski Awarded Grant by

British Council

Dr Maks Belitski has been awarded a Newton Fund Researcher

Links Workshop Grant from the British council. The grant, titled:

‘Empowering Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Leaders: theory and

action’, is to develop an efficient entrepreneurial ecosystem in

Turkish regions. It employs shared leadership concepts with the

first region, Ankara. Knowledge obtained in Ankara will be

further transferred to other Turkish regions and adapted to various

local contexts. The exploitation of both theory and action

approach to entrepreneurial ecosystem leadership is a strategy of

short and longer term benefits which is multi-level, multi-

stakeholders and multi-regional.

The workshop ‘The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Leadership’ will

take place in Ankara from May 21-24 and will bring 15 leading

researchers and entrepreneurs in Turkey to build networks with

Turkish counterparts. All participation costs will be covered. If

interested please contact Maks Belitski at

m.belitski@reading.ac.uk

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Alex Baker Runs Writing Workshops

for Forest School Pupils

Alex Baker, HCfE’s Support Administrator, ran a series of fun

creative writing workshops for pupils at Forest School in January

and February 2017.

In his free time Alex volunteers at Wokingham Library, where he

runs a creative writing club called Igniting Writing for 11-18 year

olds to encourage entrepreneurial ideas and develop their

storytelling and writing skills. The sessions at Wokingham Library

have been running since 2014, attracting over 20 members per

session, and Alex has been expanding to cover invitations to

several local schools, including Bulmershe, Edgbarrow and St

Crispin’s.

Alex Baker, left, and Sarah Kennedy, right, at Forest School library

Alex spoke in glowing terms about the imagination the pupils

showed:

“I was impressed by the creativity on display. Writing can be seen

as a solitary activity, so it was great to see the pupils sharing their

ideas and creating such imaginative stories out of the prompts

they were given.”

Sarah Kennedy, the Forest School librarian, was equally positive:

“I think the Igniting Writing sessions helped some boys who have

not been inspired by the usual English lessons. Several pupils who

usually struggle responded really well to the writing exercises!”

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Henley Business School Students Co-

organise Startup Europe Week 2017

Peter Challis and Immanuel Neumeier, two Henley Business

School students studying MSc Entrepreneurship and Financing, successfully organised a Startup Europe Week event promoting

the ‘London Start-Up Ecosystem for Students’ on 7th February

2017 at The Bakery, an open innovation accelerator.

The Startup Europe Week is an initiative promoted by the

European Commission and Startup Europe, with the goal to

inform about the local ecosystem of entrepreneurship. The

audience of entrepreneurial students was provided valuable

information about support available to get started with a business

idea. The featured speakers included Matt Kuppers, CEO of

Startup Manufactory (dubbed 'Mckinsey for startups' by Oxford

University), Alex Potter from The Bakery and Nicholas Nicolaou,

Managing Director of Funding at Newable (the Government

backed start-up loan company and partner of the British Business

Bank). Joining for the panel discussion was Juliana Saldanha, a

successful Brazilian entrepreneur and app developer for iOasys.

Startup Europe Week panel discussion at The Bakery

Immanuel spoke positively about the impact of the event:

“Our event was a full success. We’ve received overwhelmingly

positive feedback from the audience as well as our speakers.”

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New HCfE Faculty Members Appointed

HCfE welcomes three new faculty members: Prof Marcello

Mariani, Dr Zhujun Ding and Dr Adeyinka Adewale.

Marcello is Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the

Henley Business School. His research covers the areas of

management, entrepreneurship, the impact of ICTs on managerial

decisions and policy making, big and open data for decision

making, business analytics, digital business models, performance

analysis and measurement, make or buy decisions and innovation

and marketing, with a particular focus on inter-organisational and

inter-firm relationships (especially co-opetition).

Zhujun is a lecturer in entrepreneurship. Her research interests

include entrepreneurship, emerging market firm strategy, and

international business.

Adeyinka is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics and Entrepreneurship

at the Henley Business School. His research focuses on the field of

business ethics with a special focus on contexts, especially

bureaucracies and their impact on employee morality.

Prof Marcello Mariani Dr Zhujun Ding Dr Adeyinka Adewale

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News Call

The Editor welcomes articles and news items of interest from

faculty, students and staff on any topic related to entrepreneurship

for publication in HCfE News.

Articles and news items should be emailed to Alex Baker, the

Newsletter Editor, at a.j.baker@henley.ac.uk

Further information about the Henley Centre for Entrepreneurship

can be found at

www.henley.ac.uk/henleycentreforentrepreneurship