Prof Paul D' Hannon, Director of Research and Education

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Entrepreneurship Education in Europe
A Vision and a Roadmap
Prof Paul D. Hannon, Director of
Research and Education National Council for
Graduate Entrepreneurship, UK 20th May 2008
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An Entrepreneurial Journey?

• Visions of an entrepreneurial future
• What can/should we influence?
• A road less travelled?
• Stepping forward
• International Entrepreneurship Educators
  Programme (IEEP)
• And finally ................

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Visions of an entrepreneurial future

• The Entrepreneurial University
• The Entrepreneurial Graduate Career
• The Entrepreneurial Educator
• The Entrepreneurial Stakeholder Partner
• Opportunities for All
• Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindsets
• Needs-Driven Action/Practice Focus
• Embedded and Normalised

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The Entrepreneurial University is

• A great environment for encouraging
  entrepreneurial behaviours, thinking and
  opportunity
• Cross-campus approach creating access to all
  students
• Multi-disciplinary working across academic
  faculties and departments
• Engages external stakeholders in the design and
  delivery of entrepreneurship provision
• Has strong institutional leadership and support
• Takes a broad conceptual approach to
  entrepreneurship as being more than starting a
  business
• Teaching focuses on for rather than about
  entrepreneurship

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The Entrepreneurial Educator ....

• Creates learning environments which encourage
  entrepreneurial behaviour in students and
  graduates
• Designs entrepreneurship curricula in which are
  embedded desired learning outcomes
• Exploits new opportunities for enhancing the
  student experience
• Engages entrepreneurs and business with students
  in learning opportunities
• Is innovative in his/her approach to teaching,
  experimenting with different pedagogies
• Is a leader able to shape the opportunity
  learning environment

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INSTITUTION CONCEPT
WHAT DO WE WANT TO INFLUENCE? WHAT CAN WE
INFLUENCE? AND HOW?
INSTITUTION ORGANISATION
INSTITUTION STRATEGY
INSTITUTION CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTION STAKEHOLDER/ COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
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A road less travelled?

• New ways of
• Seeing, behaving, doing, thinking, communicating,
  organising, learning
• And BEING
• New institutional models, approaches, policies
• New teaching and learning practices and modes of
  assessment
• New educator roles, responsibilities and
  rewards?
• New .......... ?

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Stepping Forward

• Understanding and sharing good practice
• Building a more robust underpinning to what we do
• Identifying the contributions of our practices to
  achieving entrepreneurial outcomes
• Changing the paradigm to open up more
  opportunities
• Supporting educator development
• Enhancing value, status, incentives, rewards
• Institutional integration and stakeholder
  engagement
• Creating exemplar institutions conducive to
  enterprise and entrepreneurship

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International Entrepreneurship Educators
Programme (IEEP)
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IEEP A Real Entrepreneurial Journey

• Broad conceptualisation of entrepreneurship (in)
  education
• A pedagogic smorgasbord
• Affecting change through individual action and
  institutional influence
• Grounded in 2 frameworks Mastery and Outcomes
• Educator as a performer/actor and as a leader
• Adventure, fun and games, exploratory, risk,
  opportunity
• Global perspective China, Denmark, USA

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Educator as Master

• Mastery of Pedagogy
•  Mastery of Philosophy
•  Mastery of Strategy
•  Mastery of Operations
•  Mastery of Networks
•  Mastery of Process
• Mastery of the State of the Game
•  Mastery of Resource Acquisition
•  Mastery of Personal Entrepreneurship

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...... and finally
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The BIG ChallengeAre we Fit for the
Future?CAN WE DELIVER OUR VISION?

• 3rd International Entrepreneurship Educators
  Conference
• 8th 10th September Canary Wharf London
• 250 educators from over 20 nations
• Speakers and contributors from across the globe

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Thank Youpaul.hannon_at_ncge.org.ukwww.ncge.com