Posts Tagged ‘ventures’
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
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
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.
10 February 2012 Tags: Albert Bandura, business education, Cambridge Enterprise, cambridge Judge Business School, centre for entrepreneurial learning, CfEL, creativity, education, engineering and technology, enterprise, Enterprisers, EnterpriseWISE; women enterprise; enterprise education; SET women business, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurial activity, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, entrepreneurial journey, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, Europe, GMAC study, market research, MEETS, mentors, role models, self confidence, self-efficacy, SET, spotting opportunities, start-ups, technology enterprise, ventures, women, women entrepreneurs, women in science, work life balance
Posted in EnterpriseWISE, entrepreneurship
Dr Shai Vyakarnam talks about the notion of ‘meaningful entrepreneurship’ for the creation of long lasting ventures and more vibrant economic development.
16 December 2011 Tags: academic learning, academics, applications, Arab Spring, business education, C K Prahalad, cambridge Judge Business School, centre for entrepreneurial learning, CfEL, CNN, education, enterprise, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, entrepreneurial journey, entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, fostering ventures, Guy Kawazaki, Hermann Hauser, innovation, inspiration, intellectual capital, make meaning, meaningful entrepreneurship, mobile phones, policy makers, Pyramid, silicon fen, social enterprise, start-ups, technology development, 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 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.
7 October 2011 Tags: Acorn, acquisition, Autonomy, big companies, business, business angels, business education, cambridge Judge Business School, centre for entrepreneurial learning, commercialisation, enterprise, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, investments, Mike Lynch, serial entrepreneurs, Shai Vyakarnam, shareholders, silicon fen, silicon valley, success, valuation, ventures
Posted in entrepreneurship
18th February 2011 By Dr Shai Vyakarnam In this teaser blog the intention is to show case a few areas of research in Cambridge that can lead to opportunities for new ventures. There are many more such areas and future blogs will bring them out bit by bit! Successful entrepreneurship relies on many factors coming [...]
18 February 2011 Tags: Astra Zeneca, Cambridge antibody Technology, centre for entrepreneurial learning, CfEL, cognitive, commercialisation, commercialise, CUTEC, Domantis, enterprise, enterprise tuesday, gene sequencing, GSK, innovation, neuroscience, OCD, Opportunities, opportunity, Parkinsons, personalised medicine, Prof Tom Blundell, Prof Trevor Robbins, Sir Greg Winter, ventures
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