Enterprise Training in Higher Education Professor Tim R. Dafforn, Chief Scientific Advisor

My background Lectured in the UK HEI system for 16 years Including lecturing on enterprise for the last 10 years both locally and nationally Founder of 2 companies so also have an interest in employing good people Director of Knowledge Transfer for 200 academics at the University of Birmingham 2014 Entrepreneur in Residence for Synthetic Biology in BIS last year 2015 Chief Scientific Advisor BEIS (BIS)

What do we have to play with?

Quality of UK Universities.

Is that all there is to HE?

Academic Economics (Post war)

Changing world in the New Millennium ?

Academic Economics (Post 2006) Universities

Academic – Industrial Partnership R&D projects £4.22:£1 GVA R&D projects with Universities £9.67:1 GVA Dowling Review 2015 32% UK economic growth comes from science and tech

Don’t forget the importance of skilled workers >250,000 STEM graduates per year BUT Should they be more skilled in enterprise?

Enterprise Education Project Commissioned by BEIS Perm. Sec. in early 2016 Aims to examine progress in developing enterprise educational provision in UK HE First phase: data analysis (HESA and LEO) Currently engaging with stakeholders Results to inform policy decisions

Why Now ? 4 years since landmark QAA Enterprise education document LEO Dataset available Developing a new Industrial strategy Stern Review of REF Instigation of TEF

Questions to be answered What is the evidence for the benefits of enterprise training to the graduate and the economy? Is it the duty of higher education institutions to provide these skills? What is considered best practice in enterprise training, both in the UK and internationally? Is there a role for Government? If yes, what are the “levers” available to government? Are there any perverse behaviours which could arise? Are the resources (money and skilled personnel) available to deliver the required content? Are the current approaches the best way to deliver the desired outcome – are there alternative options?

Plan for the next hour Q&A Break into groups of 6-8 Round up Nominate “Scribe” and “Rapporteur” (5 mins) Discussion around “barriers”(15 mins) Report back and rank (15 mins) Develop solutions (15 mins) Pick top 3 and report back (10 mins) Round up

Thank You