Entrepreneurial Universities Conference 2024
Entrepreneurial Universities Conference 2024
This online conference aims to bring enterprise leaders from higher education around the world together, to share practice, consider new ways of working, extend networks, and understand the external context.
This conference will explore the next steps for enterprise in higher education. There is an increasing focus on entrepreneurship to drive economic growth and provide the skills to adapt to an ever-changing world. Higher education must be at the forefront and help to build innovative and creative mindsets, skills, behaviours. What more can we do?
This conference is delivered to support the Global Alliance of Entrepreneurial Universities, an international network of universities committed to entrepreneurship and enterprise. It is delivered by NCEE, which was established 20 years ago to support universities to be more enterprising and entrepreneurial.
14th November 2024, 9am-1pm, £225+VAT
Programme details:
We will be launching the programme here soon. Watch this space…
Dr David McBeth, Vice Principal for Enterprise & Economic Transformation
Dr David McBeth is Dundee’s Vice Principal for Enterprise & Economic Transformation. David joined Dundee in 2021 as Director of Research & Innovation Services before taking up his current appointment. Previously he was Director of Research & Enterprise at the University of York for c. 2 years, leading a large Directorate which provided all central services to Research, Knowledge Exchange (KE) and Enterprise in this Russell Group, REF Top 10 University. Prior to York, David was Director of Research & Knowledge Exchange Services (RKES) at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Over 15 years in post, he contributed to unprecedented growth in Strathclyde’s Industry research income via creation of Industry-led R&KE Centres and led the development of Strathclyde’s commercial investment approach to new company formation and growth across the spectrum of staff, student and alumni enterprises. Strathclyde remains prominent in the UK for company creation and continues to be cited as an exemplar for UK best practice for industry engagement in Research.
Brian McNicoll, Head of Entrepreneurship, University of Dundee
Brian graduated from applied computing at the University of Dundee in 2003 going on to found the BAFTA-award winning Dynamo Games best known for developing the Championship Manager mobile series. Brian grew a successful business to a team of 25, designing 40+ digital products. In 2012 Brian moved to Design in Action a £4m Scottish-wide research project led by the school of Art and Design at the University of Dundee where he managed a portfolio of 17 design thinking-led businesses including Beer52.com which is now the world’s largest and fastest growing craft beer club. Brian currently leads entrepreneurship at the University of Dundee (recently being named in the top 5 most entrepreneurial universities in Europe – NACUE and for the THEAwards outstanding entrepreneurial university award) helping staff, students and graduates launch their start-up and spinout business ideas. As part of his remit, the Centre for Entrepreneurship sits within his portfolio delivering a packed schedule of extra-curricular enterprise events, 1-1 support as well as credit-bearing modules on the curriculum. The Centre became host to the first business accelerator programme to be based on a Scottish university campus.
