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University of Liverpool Enterprise School

Gradschool type resdiential activity to engender practice and skills development opportunities in enterprise related activity including social entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and general entrepreneuralism Participants from research intensive institutions in the North of England will collaborate and innovate: • Enterprise focussed intensive four day residential course • Explore, develop and practice career enhancing skills alongside real entrepreneurs. • Available to Research Staff and Research Students from all disciplines. • EPSRC Funded • Designed for future research leaders in all areas of employment • Enterprise, creativity and innovative thinking • Places for 40 participants from the Northwest and beyond will join an expert team of tutors, intrepreneur mentors in a highly interactive and challenging environment.
Institution(s):
University of Liverpool
Region(s):
North West
Date first submitted:
11 Nov 2010
Date last modified:
12 Nov 2010
Focus:
  • Personal effectiveness
  • Research project skills
  • Knowledge exchange
  • Enterprise-related activities
  • Career development
Audience:
  • Postgraduate researchers
  • Doctoral researchers
  • Research staff
Range:
  • Inter-institutional
Rationale, aims and outcomes
What is the rationale for doing this?
How does it fit with institutional strategy?
What are the main features of the provision?
What are the aims and expected outcomes?

The Enterprise School is the centrepiece of the Skills Programme's Enterprise activities. The School is part of the Northern Enterprise Schools Consortium which includes the universities of Durham, Lancaster, Manchester, Leeds, Salford and York.

Aims:

  • To engender practice and skills development opportunities in enterprise related activity including social entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and general entrepreneuralism.
  • To enable early career researchers to meet and work alongside emplyers and entrepreneurs

learning Objectives

  • To practice the identification of commercial opportunities useful in both an academic and industrial environment
  • To practice the identification of social enterprise opportunities
  • To practice working within the processes of how ideas could be commercialised
  • To develop team working skills, particularly within a diverse, international and interdisciplinary group
  • To develop skills as a reflective learner, to enable students to identify personal strengths and to initiate a plan to develop their skills
  • To practice and develop presentation skills
  • To improve information gathering skills, identifying what is relevant and what is reliable
  • Be able to communicate ideas and information to a wider audience
  • To network with others both in your own and other universities
  • To understand the wide variety of careers that a PhD student is able to enter

 

Engagement
Are there any pre-requisites for engagement, e.g. levels of skill, years of experience, essential pre-activities?
How many participate in each 'activity'?

For up to 40 participants over four days.

Evaluation: benefits, challenges and next steps
How do you monitor effectiveness?
Who do you seek feedback from?
Do you have benchmarks?

Creates a rich, quality laden event that also engages employers and the busines community. Knowledge Exchange, career skills, confidence, networking - many many benefits to all stakeholders and participants.

Logistics, finding the right people to tutor and mentor. 1 or 2 participants find that it is not for them. Another challenge is to maintain contact with all the participants after the event so that the learning does not atrophy.

The Enterprise school has inspired another one to happen at Lancaster.

 

Seek sponsorship.

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Dr Richard Hinchcliffe