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Developing Global Best Practice for Business Clinics at Universities

A report generated through the Inaugural Global Business Clinic Symposia 2024 Hosted by Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University in collaboration with the NCEE

Published: 2024

Connect to Innovate: Revitalising Entrepreneurship in the UK

This report by Enterprise for Life and NCEE explores how collaboration between higher education and industry can foster entrepreneurship and drive economic and social growth.

Published: 2024

Driving Entrepreneurship in Education: University Enterprise Report 2023

This report reveals how enterprise and entrepreneurship activity within UK universities has changed over the past decade.

Published: 2023

How the pandemic will shape university leaders and their institutions

This report looks at findings from over 40 higher education leaders, who told us what they think about leadership and the future of the sector.

Published: 2022

Universities and the UK’s economic recovery: an analysis of future impact

This report provides a forecast of the impact of UK universities over the next five years #GettingResults.

Published: 2021

THE Award: Outstanding Entrepreneurial University

A compendium of all the shortlisted universities in the Outstanding Entrepreneurial University for 2020.

Published: 2020

NCEE Enterprise Survey Report

University Heads of Enterprise report 2020: an annual survey of enterprise education.

Published: 2020

Enterprise & Entrepreneurship

AGCAS Phoenix journal showcasing Enterprise & Entrepreneurship, with an article from NCEE CEO Ceri Nursaw in regards to ‘What is an Entrepreneurial University’.

Published: 2020

Changes and Challenges Facing University Leadership

This report looks at findings from over 50 higher education leaders, who told us what they think about leadership and the future of the sector.

Published: 2019

The entrepreneurial university revisited: promoting change in times of uncertainty

This publication is intended to illustrate the approach that underpins Entrepreneurial Leaders by examining, through a series of short articles, the three key themes of the programme in 2017. These are Leading change in higher education, Higher education: trends and future development and The entrepreneurial university in practice.

Published: 2018

Inspiring Entrepreneurship in Education

This report reveals the state of enterprise and entrepreneurial education in the UK, drawing on a survey by NCEE and ACS International Schools of 62 Heads of Enterprise from UK universities.

Published: 2018

Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education: Guidance for UK Higher Education Providers

This guidance reflects current thinking and practice in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education. It is intended to inform, enhance, and promote the development of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education across UK higher education.

Published: 2018

EntreComp into Action

A guide for those individuals and organisations who want to use EntreComp, the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework, to foster entrepreneurial learning.

Published: 2018

EntreComp: The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework

The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework, also known as EntreComp, offers a tool to improve the entrepreneurial capacity of European citizens and organisations.

Published: 2018

A Compendium of Pedagogies for Teaching Entrepreneurship

To assist the educator seeking to create entrepreneurial outcomes in learners, this compendium brings together a range of pedagogic guides.

2nd Edition, 2014; first published in 2007

Entrepreneurial University: From Concept Into Practice and Impact

This report traces the development of the entrepreneurial university concept. It also highlights some of the innovation and change that has taken place within a number of UK universities.

Published: 2013

Entrepreneurial University Scorecard

The Scorecard embraces all of the issues associated with a strategic leadership approach to embedding enterprise and entrepreneurship in the university.

Published: 2013

The University of the Future: An Entrepreneurial Stakeholder Learning Organisation?

This paper explores the present and future pressures shaping the entrepreneurial nature of universities and the responses to these pressures.

Published: 2013

University Enterprise Network: Inspiring Enterprise in STEM

The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics University Enterprise Network (STEM-UEN) is a tripartite partnership model between industry, the universities and the public sector.

Published: 2013

Entrepreneurial University Strategy

This article aims to provide a framework for exploration of a strategic approach to entrepreneurial university development.

Published: 2012

Leading the Entrepreneurial University: Meeting the entrepreneurial development needs of higher education institutions

This paper sets out the challenges to leadership of universities arising from changes in the global environment and the implications for the entrepreneurial design of the higher education sector as well as the leadership challenges involved.

2nd Edition December 2012; first published October 2009

Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education: 2012 National Survey

89 of 113 HEIs, 79%, responded to the 2012 England survey of enterprise and entrepreneurship in higher education.

Published: 2012

Entrepreneurial University Strategy

This article aims to provide a framework for exploration of a strategic approach to entrepreneurial university development.

Published: 2012

Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education

The 2010 National Survey of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship was carried out between February and July 2010 with a 92% response rate from 126 Higher Education Institutions in England representing 1.8m students.

Published: 2010

The National Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education

This reports the results of a complete survey of enterprise education in all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in England undertaken by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) in partnership with the Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ISBE).

Published: 2010

Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs

Unlocking entrepreneurial capabilities to meet the global challenges of the 21st Century

Published: 2009

Developing Entrepreneurial Graduates

Putting entrepreneurship at the centre of higher education.

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