Posts Tagged ‘cambridge’
Gregg Fraley, author, speaker, innovation consultant and contributor to the Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship talks about why Creativity is essential to entrepreneurial development and success. He asserts that creative thinking is needed for innovation and without it there would be no successful new ventures. In addition to offering advice, tools and tips, he encourages entrepreneurs to allow time for exploring and ideating in an imaginative way – turning on the faucet of imagination – to solve problems and create successful businesses.
8 January 2013 Tags: blog, business, cambridge, cambridge Judge Business School, centre for entrepreneurial learning, CfEL, CfEL blog, challenge, contributor, CPS, Creative Problem Solving, creative thinking, creative thinking tools, creativity, creativity awareness, educators, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurial development, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial journey, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, exploring, faucet, Gregg Fraley, ideating, imaginative, imaginatively, innovation, innovation services, inspiration, Jack's Notebook, KILN, principal, self-expression, students, successful business, Turning on the faucet of imagination, ventures
Posted in entrepreneurship, Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship, Skills for entrepreneurs
Jordan Milne, a CfEL alumnus and serial entrepreneur, offers some advice on achieving a better work-life balance in our latest blog. He has some great tips for busy entrepreneurs during the festive season.
18 December 2012 Tags: balance, business, cambridge, cambridge Judge Business School, celebrate, centre for entrepreneurial learning, CfEL, Christmas, education, enterprise, entrepreneurial journey, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, holiday season, inspiration, Jordan Milne, productivity, stressed out, tips, ventures, winning without losing, work life balance
Posted in entrepreneurship, Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship
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.
5 December 2012 Tags: brand, business, business education, cambridge, cambridge Judge Business School, Carrie Bedingfield, centre for entrepreneurial learning, CfEL, clients, content, education, enterprise, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, entrepreneurial journey, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, growing business, marketing, marketplace, OneFish TwoFish, peer to peer learning, reputation, start-ups, super content
Posted in entrepreneurship, Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship, Skills for entrepreneurs
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.
24 October 2012 Tags: Alarga, business education, cambridge, cambridge Judge Business School, centre for entrepreneurial learning, CfEL, Chryso Christodoulou, creativity, Dilek Ayhan, EnterpriseWISE, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Entrepreneurial Education for Women Entrepreneurs workshop, entrepreneurial journey, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, Europe, European network of Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors, European SME Week Summit, female entrepreneurs, female entrepreneurship, female stereotype, feminist critique of science, FUNecole, gender biases, gender gap, inspiration, ISBE Conference, Melanie Bryan OBE, mentors, motivation, self-efficacy, social enterprise, stereotypes, The European Network of Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors, UK Female Entrepreneurship Ambassador, WHYNOTCHANGE, women entrepreneurs, Women's Entrepreneurship Makes Business Sense
Posted in EnterpriseWISE, entrepreneurship, Skills for entrepreneurs
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.
25 June 2012 Tags: agenda, business education, cambridge, cambridge Judge Business School, centre for entrepreneurial learning, CfEL, commercialisation, economics, education, enterprise, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, entrepreneurial journey, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, Financing growth, growth, innovation, sustainability, the growth agenda, University of Cambridge
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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.
30 May 2012 Tags: business education, CAL4INO, cambridge, cambridge Judge Business School, centre for entrepreneurial learning, CfEL, creativity, education, enterprise, entrepreneurial journey, entrepreneurial research, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, EU, European, innovation, inspiration, Laurea University, learning by development, measurement, research, research activity, self-efficacy
Posted in entrepreneurship, Skills for entrepreneurs
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?
30 March 2012 Tags: apprenticeships, BBC Apprentice, business, business education, cambridge, Cambridge ecosystem, cambridge Judge Business School, centre for entrepreneurial learning, CfEL, economic downturn, economic outlook, education, enterprise, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, entrepreneurial journey, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship programmes, innovation, inspiration, Lord Alan Sugar, networks, pitching to investors, Postgraduate Diploma, Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship, start-ups, University of Cambridge, ventures
Posted in entrepreneurship, Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship
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.
2 December 2011 Tags: academic learning, attitude, boot camp, business, business angels, business education, business mentors, business study, cambridge, cambridge Judge Business School, centre for entrepreneurial learning, Curtin Business School, Curtin University, dollar, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, entrepreneurial journey, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurship, experience, Ignite, Ignition, innovation, investment, investors, knowledge seekers, masterclass, MBA, MBA student, mentors, networking, pitch, start-ups, university, ventures, work experience
Posted in entrepreneurship, Ignite, Uncategorized
Dr Shai Vyakarnam was challenged with this question on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme (19 Aug) as Cambridge software firm Autonomy, founded by entrepreneur Dr Mike Lynch OBE, is sold to Hewlett Packard for around $7billion. Is this another UK tech firm losing its independence to a US giant multinational or a great entrepreneurial success story that’s good for Cambridge and the UK economy?
19 August 2011 Tags: AbCam, Autonomy, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Today, big companies, business, business education, cambridge, cambridge Judge Business School, centre for entrepreneurial learning, CEO, CfEL, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, entrepreneurial journey, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, Hewlett Packard, innovation, innovative start ups, Mike Lynch, real products, sale, silicon fen, software business, stock options, tech companies, value chain
Posted in entrepreneurship, Uncategorized
