1. Student Enterprise in the Steel City
Sheila Quairney
Business and Enterprise Manager, SHU
and
Martyn Benson
Business Adviser/Business Coach, RYE and RIDO

2. Objectives and Prior Work
Evidence the enterprise activity and ethos of support for business start up at Sheffield Hallam University
Analyse the course subjects and business ideas of the clients ie students and recent graduates
Prior work:
Reports on business intentions of students
Review of users of the ‘business surgery’ service
Review of ‘Enterprise Challenge’ entrants

3. Approach To study the ‘Entrepreneurial Intentions’ reports and to
select relevant information.
To analyse the course subjects and business ideas of
the ‘clients’ who met with the Business Adviser.
the ‘Enterprise Challenge’ competition entrants.

4. Results Analysis of Adviser Sessions 2007/9:
Total no. of course subjects seen : 87
Total no. of Business Ideas seen : 115
Average correlation of course with idea: 62%
Enterprise Challenge Competition 2007/9:
Total number of course subjects represented :128
Total number of broad business categories : 42
Average correlation of course with idea: 32%

5. Results (2) Adviser clients: 75% male and 25% female
2007: 127 clients with 75 business ideas - 84% correlation with study subject
2008: 95 clients with 65 business ideas and 46%
correlation with study subject
2009: 72 clients with 70 business ideas and 56%
Enterprise Challenge entrants: 63% male and 37% female

6. Value Research has identified and recorded:
Course subjects of potential business owners
Business ideas considered
Partial correlation of subjects to business ideas
Trends in types of business ideas considered
Has identified:
Need for longitudinal study

7. Thank you