Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education Key Challenges for the Future Allan Gibb

Challenge 1 Meeting the Policy Rationale

Just because he said it, it doesn’t mean you don’t have to believe it! "In Government, in business, in our universities and throughout society we must do much more to foster a new entrepreneurial spirit: equipping ourselves for the long term, prepared to seize opportunities ….. Introductory letter to White paper ‘Our Competitive Future. Building the Knowledge Economy’

Globalisation Individual, Social, Community Futures (Work, Leisure, Family, Community change) Government’s redrawing the boundaries Societies redrawing the Boundaries Organisations redrawing the Boundaries

Its not just starting a business! Its creating the capacity for individuals and organisations to cope with, create and enjoy higher levels of uncertainty and complexity in all walks of life

Challenge 2 The Right Concept of Entrepreneurship

The right Concept The Entrepreneurial person In the (appropriate) entrepreneurial organisation Addressing the future world of work, community and society

Are we clear on the Concept? Off-loading some academic baggage Heroic innovator to Business Plan to Ad-hoc behaviours to Analytical/rational approach to Business context myopia to Knowing about - explicit to Functional management to New venture/growth to Corporate venturing to Small business management to Market economy myopia to You or me and our capacities/needs Strategic Intuition Full Behaviours, skills, attributes focus Emotional intelligence All contexts- way of life Learning how – greater tacit emphasis Holistic management Relationship learning through stages Designing entrepreneurial organisations Entrepreneurial management Contingent uncertainty/complexity need

Challenge 3 Applicability to a Wide Range of Contexts and People

ORCHESTRA MEMBER CIVIL SERVANT CLINIC DIRECTOR CRAFTSMAN THIS WORLD OR THE NEXT? LECTURER NURSE Unique challenges Life worlds Uncertainty/Complexity Need for Entrepreneurial Behaviours POLICEMAN?

Challenge 4 Clarifying the Desired Outcomes

NCGE KEY OUTCOMES?

Challenge 5 Providing Real Insight

The Overall Education Challenge Providing the ‘missing ingredient’ of real insight into Ways of: Living the Life World Doing Thinking Feeling Organising Communicating Learning THE PLAN ! Writing a Business Plan to Help You Succeed! But how does it FEEL to actually do it?

THE BUSINESS PLAN CULTURE PROBLEM The Plan The Reality From calculating answers to making sense of reality

Challenge 6 Organising Knowledge Holistically

THE ORGANISATION OF KNOWLEDGE WHY DO WE NEARLY ALWAYS FAIL WITH ENTREPRENEURS?

THE HOLISTIC ORGANISATION OF KNOWLEDGE Know Who Know How Need to Know Learning to learn from Community of Practice Developing me with the organisation Anticipating problems Identifying opportunities Concept into practice (giving meaning to experience) Bringing forward the future

Emotionally charged Add concept? Heuristic mental maps Tacit knowledge acquisition Learning by doing Behaviour change (Management development) Managing change (Business development) Performance need The Way Entrepreneurs Learn – bottom up The Way we Teach – top down Knowledge/concept input Testable learning Search for behaviour application Search for relevance to organisation change need Search for link to performance Academic mental maps? Emotionally neutral

Challenge 7 Using Pedagogy as a Personal Development Tool

THE PEDAGOGICAL CHALLENGE Shadowing Lectures Anecdotes Workshops Cases Brainstorming Drama Drawings Audits/investigations Games Critical incidents Projects/practice Consultancy Simulations/role play Debates Presentations/teaching Quiz’s Panels Negotiations Personal (ity) tests Networking exercises IT/Video (interactive) Newspaper clippings Guests interviews Visits Thematic Aperception Tests Log books Interviews/Report writing Tying each of these to enterprising behaviour support

Linking Pedagogy with Entrepreneurship development Drama Empathy Emotional Intelligence Subjectivity of Knowledge Creativity Entrepreneur as actor Delivering messages Self confidence Team building Pressure

Challenge 8 Embedding it in the organisation

Embedding it in the University Achieving Ownership through Centrality to Goals? Re. the ‘Idea’ of a University? What do we need to work on? Imaginative use of knowledge Interdisciplinarity Vocationalism Nature of student contract Organisation Stakeholder symmetry Scholarship of relevance and integration Rewards Status Utilitarianism Pedagogy Autonomy Ideology Money IP Knowledge concepts

Challenge 9 Developing Staff and Teachers

Teacher Development (ncge) CYCLE 1 THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET CYCLE 2 ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR, SKILL AND ATTRIBUTE DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 3 OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CYCLE 4 MAKING IT HAPPEN WITH PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS CYCLES

Challenge 10 Creating a Long Term Vision, Focus and Sustainable Capacity

The Top Ten? Meeting the Policy Rationale Choosing the Appropriate Concept Applying it to a Wide Range of Contexts Clarity of Outcomes Providing Real Insight Organising Knowledge Holistically Using Pedagogy as a Personal Development Tool Embedding Entrepreneurship in the Organisation Developing Staff and Teachers Creating a long term sustainable vision and capacity