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Towards the Entrepreneurial University Prof Paul D. Hannon Director, LEAD Wales Director, Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership
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Swansea
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The Science and Innovation Campus 2015
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e University for Swansea Bay
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“ One of the best examples of University – Business collaboration seen in Western `“ One of the best examples of University Collaboration seen in Europe.” Western Europe”
European Investment Bank : February/March 2012
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Overview of Campus and Accommodation Blocks
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Great Hall & Lecture Theatres
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Innovation Hub
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College of Business & Economics
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Why is the entrepreneurial university important?
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Why Entrepreneurship? Unprecedented levels of change: • Changing world / competitiveness pressures • Changing funding regimes / pressures • Changing external expectations / pressures
Leading to higher levels of uncertainty, unpredictability, complexity These environments demand an entrepreneurial response Entrepreneurship is a key driver for innovation
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Is this still really important in education? Enterprise and entrepreneurship in education continues to gain public policy attention; Retains different meanings and conceptualisations across diverse contexts but an emphasis on ‘mindsets’; Demand and need remain high and/or growing; Rising expectations about the outcomes from what we do and the broader impact this may have on individuals, communities, organisations, society and the economy.
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Framing the Entrepreneurial Institution 1. The institution as an entrepreneurial organisation
2. The institution as an environment conducive for the development of entrepreneurial thinking, behaviours, skills, action
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Universities as Entrepreneurial Organisations Held together by shared values
Maximising individual autonomy
Incentives to innovate and learn from mistakes
Opportunity for holistic project management
Authentic leadership with widely shared commitment to entrepreneurship
Reward systems geared to success with customers
Flexible strategic thinking
Staff empowerment
Delegated responsibility to see things through
Allowing informal integration
Rewarding learning by doing with stakeholders
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Challenges and Opportunities Shared vision / direction / identity Organisational transformation Not relevant in my discipline / subject
No room in the curriculum / ‘what’ or ‘how’ Risk and failure – organisational or individual? Leadership from within the organisation
Recognition / rewards/ incentives
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The Entrepreneurial Leader Ability to communicate compelling vision
Authentic and personal - a role model exemplar
Will take risks but share and cover risk for others
Strong strategic orientation
Intellectual visionary of the entrepreneurial concept
Building shared culture and ways of doing things
Organiser of teams committed to transformation
Ability to network internally and externally to harvest resources
Strong focus on innovation
Focus on bottom up empowerment
Persuader and ‘fixer’
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Institutional Positioning Business and management schools? Fit with institutional values / culture Top down / bottom up?
Subject / practice / way of being? Graduate entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial graduates?
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The Entrepreneurial University in 2020?
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Releasing Entrepreneurial Potential?
Desirability (I want ...)
Feasibility (I can ....)
Propensity to act (I will ....)
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I want to
I can
I will
Role models, peers
Know who
Opportunity and resources
Inspiration and motivation
Know how
Personal support
Institutional and societal values
Know where
SelfConfidence
Awareness and opportunity
Know what
SelfEfficacy
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QAA Guidance, UK (2012)
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Challenges and opportunities for the Entrepreneurial University: 1. Uncertainty, unpredictability and complexity 2. Impact on the ‘Idea’ of the University for the 21st Century 3. Transformational Leadership Challenges 4. Organisational Design and Culture
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‘Enterprise’ is a concept sometimes wholly lacking in discussions about higher education and the American research university. “Academic enterprise” and the entrepreneurial academic culture that such an orientation instills encourage creativity and innovation with intellectual capital – the primary asset of every college and university.
Our only purpose is social transformation
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Building an Entrepreneurial University (Crow) The organisational frameworks we call universities have not been designed to accommodate change on the scale we are witnessing or the attendant increases in complexity. Organisational constraints prevent them from realising their entrepreneurial potential. In our effort to produce abstract knowledge without regard for its impact, many universities have lost sight of the fact that they are also institutions with the capacity to create entrepreneurial potential. The only way to move forward is to replace what you have with something better—to innovate.
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The UNC Roadmap Entrepreneurial thinkers ask: What is the need/opportunity?
What is the status quo response? / Does it have to be this way? Is this the best way? / What might be better ways? What can I do?
This means the University has the responsibility to provide a conducive environment for such explorations. Impact will be the result of thousands of individual deliberate actions taken by thousands of staff and partners.
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Excerpts from a presentation by Aalto University President Tuula Teeri to the Entrepreneurial University Leaders Programme at Oxford University in January 2013
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REVIEWING THE UNIVERSITY ENTREPRENEURIAL POTENTIAL
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Leadership and Governance Measuring the impact
International institution
University-Business and societal collaboration
The Entrepreneurial University
Organisational Capacity, People and Incentives Teaching and Learning Pathways for Entrepreneurs
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EC/OECD Guiding Framework Leadership and Governance 10 8 Measuring the impact of the Entrepreneurial University
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Organisational Capacity, People and Incentives
4 2 0 The Entrepreneurial University as an internationalised institution
University – business/external relationships for knowledge exchange
Entrepreneurship development in teaching and learning
Pathways for entrepreneurs
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www.entrepreneurialuniversities.eu EC Symposium on the Entrepreneurial University 21-23 May 2014, Swansea University
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Source: Prof Allan Gibb
INSTITUTION CONCEPT
INSTITUTION ORGANISATION
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE?
INSTITUTION STRATEGY
WHAT CAN YOU CHANGE? AND HOW? INSTITUTION STAKEHOLDER/ COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
INSTITUTION CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY DEVELOPMENT
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Some Other Examples
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Potential Outcomes Changed mindsets and culture Leadership throughout the organisation
Devolved power for innovations of all kinds – linked to career pathways Co-creation with stakeholders as the normal ‘way of doing’ Choice and flexibility for learning Opportunity for all – inclusive model Breakdown of silos/boundaries Beyond careers and employability / focus on mindsets, values, self-efficacy
MAINSTREAMED IN THE INSTITUTIONAL DNA
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What might we need for the journey? Visionary and transformative leaders Entrepreneurial staff as effective role models Empowered students Mentors and coaches / inspiring development opportunities Celebration of learning from failure and risk Education activists and critical thinkers Dynamic and effective entrepreneurial ecosystems
Learning technologists – use of media / space Stakeholder engagement in many different ways
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Embracing uncertainty, unpredictability, complexity
Not what we see, but how does it feel Where are the transformative institutions?
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Thank You
Prof Paul D. Hannon
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