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Enterprise Case Study

Summary of the impact

This case study focuses upon enterprise and enterprise education. It describes the impact of intellectual endeavours in this area, mainly surrounding the production of a framework to foster entrepreneurial behaviour, and the emergence of an enterprise support approach that continues to support entrepreneurs.

Impact includes:

  • Informing the approach taken by enterprise initiatives toward enterprise development, and challenging existing practice on enterprise education (particularly using findings around learning process, active learning and cohort-based enterprise education);
  • Increased enterprise start-up rates and sustainability of start-ups through enhanced enterprise activity and initiatives secured as a result of the research profile gained (also indirectly contributing towards economic sustainability);
  • Development of resources (both HE and practitioner) which took a new approach to enterprise education, based on the underpinning research;
  • Policy implications locally and regionally.

Submitting Institution

University of Derby

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Education: Specialist Studies In Education
Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services: Business and Management

Fostering Entrepreneurship locally, nationally and internationally

Summary of the impact

The research of the Centre has had a wide range of impacts including economic, commercial and organisational impacts at the level of individual firms, impacts on public policy at the UK level and impacts on practitioners and professional services at the international level. Featured here are examples of each of these types of impact, including an example of impact being made by the whole team on the Nigerian undergraduate entrepreneurship provision and examples of impacts being made at the level of individual firms through the business incubator, on professional practices in a Scottish context through TalentScotland and on UK government policy through work with the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) by individual team members.

Submitting Institution

Robert Gordon University

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Education: Specialist Studies In Education
Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services: Business and Management
Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration

The impact of entrepreneurship education research upon international entrepreneurship policy and practice

Summary of the impact

This case study relates to the application of entrepreneurship education research to entrepreneurship development practice internationally. The socio-economic impact of the research has been tracked with impact maps and demonstrates impact upon entrepreneurship policy, advisory agency stances and university practice in the UK, continental Europe, other industrially-developed countries and developing countries. In addition to universal entrepreneurship education research and associated impact, the work has had specific impact upon specific facets of entrepreneurship including ethnic minority enterprise, creative industries entrepreneurship and e-entrepreneurship.

Submitting Institution

Birmingham City University

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Education: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services: Business and Management
Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration

Creating Entrepreneurship Training Curricula in Africa and for the OECD

Summary of the impact

Professor Jay Mitra's research has developed both a novel theory of entrepreneurship and a series of recommendations for effective teaching in entrepreneurship, with specific emphasis on how entrepreneurship education can help emerging economies. His research has informed his consultation work as a specialist in entrepreneurship training for the OECD's Local Economic and Employment Development Programme. Much of this research was conducted as part of a UK Government-sponsored Education Partnership in Africa programme, which established Mitra's links with education authorities and universities in Africa. The entrepreneurship education framework developed in the research has since been implemented nationwide in Nigeria as a result of these links.

Submitting Institution

University of Essex

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Economic

Research Subject Area(s)

Education: Specialist Studies In Education
Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services: Business and Management
Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration

Shaping Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Education and Assisting Business Start-Up and Growth

Summary of the impact

Research by University of Huddersfield Business School has delivered regional and national impact in the field of entrepreneurship and enterprise. It has informed the award-winning delivery of business start-up and growth support programmes across Yorkshire and the Humber, contributing to the regional economy through additional business and job creation. It has helped to shape policy on national entrepreneurship and enterprise education for undergraduates, graduates and postgraduate research students. It has also influenced policy and guidance in the areas of enterprise and entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship support and social enterprise across the UK through researchers' involvement with national incubation, education and research-based organisations.

Submitting Institution

University of Huddersfield

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Education: Curriculum and Pedagogy
Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services: Business and Management
Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration

Black Business Observatory: supporting enterprise development among British Africans in London

Summary of the impact

UEL's Black Business Observatory (BBO) works with black entrepreneurs, business support providers and government agencies to promote enterprise development among British Africans through coaching, advice and assistance with business planning and start-up support. Since 2008, its interventions have supported the establishment of 15 companies and some 120 new jobs within London. As well as supporting individual entrepreneurs and contributing to the UK economy through its facilitation of entrepreneurship, business start-ups and the creation of new jobs, the BBO has informed UK business policy via its production of evidence-based conceptions of black entrepreneurialism, developed through collaborative engagement with primary stakeholders.

Submitting Institution

University of East London

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services: Business and Management
Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration
History and Archaeology: Historical Studies

Improving the Performance of Technology Focused SMEs.

Summary of the impact

The Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship and Science (IDEAS) programme, worked with 60 `technology focused' small-and-medium sized enterprises to explore how they could be supported to facilitate growth. Workshops conducted at Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus (DSIC) resulted in 55 jobs being created and 10 safeguarded. The programme provided business owners with an understanding of their networks, based on research indicating that business growth can be stimulated by optimising the variety of contacts available to them. The successful application of these concepts, at Daresbury, contributed to the generation of approx. £13.1m of funding for new regional, national and international programmes to support a further 2,900 SMEs.

Submitting Institution

Lancaster University

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Economic

Research Subject Area(s)

Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services: Business and Management
Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration

Identifying and eliminating bottlenecks to entrepreneurship and development

Summary of the impact

The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI) developed by Professor Autio and colleagues has been designed to address the shortcoming that policy makers lack robust measures for effective guidance for national entrepreneurship policy analysis, design and implementation. GEDI profiles National Systems of Entrepreneurship. The main impact has been as follows:

  • Scottish Enterprise used GEDI analysis to re-think its entrepreneurship policy [A];
  • UNCTAD adopted GEDI in its Entrepreneurship Policy Framework [B, C];
  • In 2013, EU decided to include GEDI data in the 2014 EU Cohesion Report. This will determine the allocation of EU Structural Funds (€320 Billion) [D].

The ultimate beneficiaries of more effective policies are the businesses, taxpayers, and populations of these countries.

Submitting Institution

Imperial College London

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Education: Specialist Studies In Education
Economics: Applied Economics
Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration

The Enterprise Approach: Reshaping Entrepreneurial Education

Summary of the impact

This case study details the impact of research at Durham University Business School (DUBS) in changing the way that notions of enterprise are used within education to develop the personal attributes of young people. This "enterprise approach" has been widely adopted within primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions across the UK and internationally. The impact of the research is significant in reshaping curriculum and learning in different levels of education - towards producing "enterprising young people" regardless of the subject being studied. The reach of the research is reflected in its application across all levels of education (primary, secondary and tertiary) as well as in the numbers of institutions — across a wide range of countries — who have adopted the model.

Submitting Institution

University of Durham

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Education: Curriculum and Pedagogy, Specialist Studies In Education

How Entrepreneurship Research At MMU Supports SMEs And Social Enterprises To Succeed

Summary of the impact

Research into entrepreneurship and business start-up at Manchester Metropolitan University has created know-how to support new entrepreneurs and to guide established businesses through renewal and change. With an emphasis on "knowledge in action", MMU's entrepreneurship research has provided a cornerstone for start-up, growth and leadership programmes offered by the university's Centre for Enterprise (CfE), and seen by owner-managers themselves as positively impacting directly on their businesses. Utilising research-based knowledge, CfE has worked with 150 start-ups and 1,500 small firms and social enterprises in the North West of England, fostering job creation, access to funding, and business growth.

Submitting Institution

Manchester Metropolitan University

Unit of Assessment

Business and Management Studies

Summary Impact Type

Societal

Research Subject Area(s)

Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services: Business and Management
Studies In Human Society: Policy and Administration

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