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Marketing for Entrepreneurs: why Super Content holds the key to business development

Our guest blogger, Carrie Bedingfield, the founder of OneFish TwoFish, talks about the need for entrepreneurs and startups to develop ‘super content’ to position the business with the right markets, raise awareness and grow the business.


Challenging and breaking stereotypes for women in entrepreneurship

This article discusses entrepreneurship education to support, encourage and empower women in entrepreneurship in the context of the experience of the recent European SME Week Summit.


Critical perspective on Entrepreneurship: are we poised to change the world or destroy it?

The main topic on the economic agenda these days is ‘growth’ or how to attain growth’. Growth is held as the measure of success for both enterprise and the nation as a whole. However, there is much less talk of the impact and implications of a growth agenda. Dr Shima Barakat discusses how the drive for enterprise growth is impacting the sustainability agenda.


Measuring creative learning activities for better Entrepreneurship Education

The CfEL Research team engaged with entrepreneurship educators at the recent Learning by Development conference at Laurea University of Applied Science in Leppävaara, Finland, to gauge opinion about a tool designed as part of EU-funded CAL4INO (i.e. Creative Activities in Learning for Innovation) for measuring creative learning activities and received surprising but interesting reactions.


Entrepreneurial apprenticeships at Cambridge

The BBC’s Apprentice show has more of a focus on Entrepreneurship with participants competing for investment in their business venture but is it really reflective of the entrepreneurial journey and does this result in meaningful entrepreneurship with benefits for society as a whole?


EnterpriseWISE: Catering for the most underserved category of aspiring entrepreneurs

EnterpriseWISE is no ordinary course. It is a course designed specifically to meet the needs of women in science, engineering and technology – the most underserved entrepreneurial community in the world.


Meaningful Entrepreneurship – why do we need yet another label?

Dr Shai Vyakarnam talks about the notion of ‘meaningful entrepreneurship’ for the creation of long lasting ventures and more vibrant economic development.


Ignition – Something Every MBA Student Should Do

Marcus Holmes, a current student of the MBA programme at Curtin University in Western Australia, talks about his experience of the entrepreneurship course ‘Ignition’ run there recently. Ignition, launched this year, is based on the successful Ignite programme managed by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning in Cambridge.


G20 – A Greek tragedy

Dr Shai Vykarnam talks about the current crisis in the EU and why there’s a need for fewer rules that restrain entrepreneurs and more rules to restrain the elite.


Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley and Silicon Fen

Dr Shai Vyakarnam comments about questions raised about the recent acquisition of Cambridge software firm Autonomy including the valuation, selling off to a US company and the tensions with Oracle. He remains optimistic about the future of Autonomy.


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