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Software Engineering Education and
Entrepreneurship Landscape
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Why Me?
• Wrote my first program in 1979 – Basic on a Commodore Pet
• First used the internet in 1987 • My largest programme was a C++ Object
Oriented 3G wireless network model • First used the web in 1992 • Started a mobile phone games company • The last programing I did was PHP for a
website 2011
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What do the following people have in common?
• Bill Gates • John Carmack • Larry Page • Sophie Wilson • Steve Jobs • Paul Allen • Tim Berners-Lee
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What do the following people have in common?
• Bill Gates – Basic Language • John Carmack – Multi-Player First Person
Shooter • Larry Page - Google • Sophie Wilson – Acorn Computers/ BBC
Basic • Steve Jobs – NeXT Kernal • Paul Allen – Basic Language • Tim Berners-Lee – Web Mark-up
Language
Our role models are seen through media 1nted glasses
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GEEKS HAVE INHERITED THE EARTH!
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Is all software done?
Is there anything new to do?
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What’s happening in our Schools?
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Drop tedious ICT lessons, says Intellect
• There have been fresh calls for schools to dump the dull ICT lessons that are turning kids off IT and failing to create the type of IT-savvy employees that UK businesses need.
Source: silicon.com
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What do school students think?
• The system likes you to be a – Doctor, Lawyer, Nurse,
Artist, Journalist • Software Engineers:
– Work in Diverse Fields – Change jobs on
average every 18 months
– Geeks – Contractors / Self
Employed
Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2010 Vol II WCECS 2010, October 20-‐22, 2010, San Francisco, USA
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Software Industry
UK 1. Sage 2. Misys 3. Autonomy 4. Logica 5. Acision 6. Mico Focus 7. Sophos 8. Aveva 9. Northgate IS 10. IRIS Software Group
Global 1. Microsoft (USA) 2. IBM (USA) 3. Oracle (USA) 4. SAP (DE) 5. EMC (USA) 6. Symantec (USA) 7. HP (USA) 8. CA (USA) 9. Intuit (USA) 10. Adobe (USA)
Source: PWC.com
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Video Generation
Talk about: • Apps, Websites,
Games • Entrepreneurs and
not Software developers
• No longer news to be techy
• Many tech business don’t create 1000’s of jobs
Big Bang • After the success of
the show we have seen a rise in Physics students at A level (+20%) and University levels
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Is it better?
• Turnover: £100m • Turnover: £100k
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Is it better?
• Turnover: £100m • Profitability: 30-40%
• Turnover: £100k • Profitability: 5-10%
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Our Universities are some of the best in the world
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University Software Related Courses
• 239 Courses – Computer Science (104 Courses) – Computing – Artificial Intelligence – Open Source – Internet Engineering – Business Software Development – Forensic Computing & Security – Network Systems Management – Software Engineering (66 courses) – Computer Games Development – Computer Hardware and Software – Computer Science with a French/German/Spanish – Software Application Development – Applied Information – Games Software Development/Production (101 courses)
Source: UCAS.com
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Not all degrees are the same
• Bath – 440 UCAS Points – 100% Employment rate
• Birmingham City – 240 UCAS Points – 70% Employment Rate
• Anglia Ruskin – 220 UCAS Points – 50% Employment Rate
Computer Science First Degree: hHp://unistats.direct.gov.uk
Average Une
mploymen
t stated at ~20%
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Not all university’s are the same
• A more diverse range of institutions providing degrees • Charge from £3k to £9k • Enterprise / Careers / KTP / Business Development /
Innovation / Business School • Out of 151 HE institutions
– 46 have a professor of enterprise – 482 support staff – 562 enterprise lecturers (range from – 4 staff on average (range from 50 - 0) – 35% provide enterprise modules – On average 350 students are engaged in enterprise – 16% of students get any form of enterprise development – 63 university have incubators – Average spend £1.5m per institution (per 16k students, £93/
student per year)
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Imperial College
• Software Developers are enablers, creators of global wealth… – There a reason McCoy is in the
engine room
• Join with people who have ideas, resources – Masters Business Students – Technology – Venture Funding (In/Ex)
• So network and team build them
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Wh
at D
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art
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Entrepreneur
Opera1ons
Sales
Finance
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To Join a SME, or not to join an SME
That is the question
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• Owner Manager • Business & Market • Generic Small Business Issues
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Why join a start-up
• Passion, Emotion • Influence, Connectivity • Ownership • Startup years are like dog years • Brands don’t create the person • If you want to start a company, a startup
is the best place to learn • Greater experience, diversity • More fun
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Leaving Thoughts
• We need to do a little more sales – Its not software, its apps
• Abstraction tools allow – Easy development earlier (e.g. Alice )
• Role Models – Very few Brits and most of them live in the
USA
• Venture Finance for Start-ups
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Thank you
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