Over the past five years, UK Science Enterprise Centres (UKSEC) has worked with CMI on questions of how to teach within the university, and how to use experience outside of it to foster entrepreneurship in students and a culture of enterprise in the university as a whole.
Over the past five years, UK Science Enterprise Centres (UKSEC) has worked with CMI on questions of how to teach within the university, and how to use experience outside of it to foster entrepreneurship in students and a culture of enterprise in the university as a whole.
Both CMI and UKSEC are implementations of economic policies designed to increase the impact of universities on Britain’s economic performance. The implementation of policy necessarily provides an important opportunity to learn about the assumptions on which it is based, and to develop a deeper understanding of theory and practice which will enable us to conduct more effective interventions in the future. To this end, a CMI sponsored programme, led by Bill Lucas, CMI Deputy Director and project leader in CMI’s Studies in Knowledge Exchange, and involving a group of UKSEC colleagues has been developing an assessment and evaluation programme over the past three years.
This workshop will provide an insight into the work and finding of this group through a combination of presentations and discussion groups. The latter will focus on the next steps this research should take, and the implications for future policy, and will be an important opportunity for the sharing of experiences and idea relevant to this agenda. It is design for all those involved with developing university strategy for enterprise learning, designing courses, and delivering modules both on and off the campus.
The workshop begins with a reception and dinner on the evening of 3 April where there will be an opportunity to learn about the range of CMI activities which provide the context for the specific education and evaluation activities which will be the focus of the meeting on the 4th.
There is no charge for this event and non-UKSEC members are welcome to attend.
For registration details or more information, please contact Maarten van der Kamp, UKSEC Project Manager at: Phone: +44 (0) 161 306 8431; Email: m.vanderkamp@manchester.ac.uk
Agenda
3 April 2006
18.00 Arrivals for dinner and overnight accommodation
4 April 2006
09.00 Registration
09.30 Introduction and welcome, Bob Handscombe (Vice Chairman, UKSEC)
09.40 Overview and introduction, Bill Lucas (CMI - US)
MIT alumni data; the age of entrepreneurship, which SET curriculum interventions have a major impact on eventual entrepreneurship. Data on the apparent difficulty of affecting intent. Issues of self-efficacy.
10.00 Self-efficacy and its determinants, David Good (CMI-UK)
10.20 Evaluation of the Enterprisers Programme, Sarah Cooper (Univ. of Strathclyde)
10.40 Coffee
11.00 Break-outs on (1) education and (2) implications that there are four types of entrepreneurs: the young, and later in life, the technical and non-technical
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Vicarious learning and student placement, Sarah Cooper
14.30 The role of university culture and courses, Bill Lucas
14.45 Breakout definition
14.50 Break
15.00 Breakout: sessions
Summary of ideas for follow-on
15.50 Tea, while rapporteurs reach conclusions.
16.00 Plenary report out
16.30 Closure
18.00
for 19.00 Dinner and conversations, for those staying on.
