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On March 9 th -10 th Ilia State University in collaboration with the UWE Bristol and the Aldridge Institute hosted Academic Entrepreneurship Workshop and Senior Leader’s Programme.

The mentioned workshops are the first international professional development programmes launched by the Aldridge Institute for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship.

Through the Academic Entrepreneurship Workshop the participants explored the concept of the ‘academic entrepreneur’ with a specific focus on knowledge exchange, technology transfer and commercialization.

As for the Senior Leader’s Programme the workshop was focused on encouraging the senior leadership team to think entrepreneurially about values, behaviours and strategies that can be embedded into the institution.

The workshop objectives were:

1. Understanding academic entrepreneurship and knowledge exchange;
2. Exploring the role of technology transfer and the commercialisation process;
3. Identifying routes to commercialisation;
4. Routes to innovation and enterprise capacity building;
5. Championing the entrepreneurial university/enterprise agenda;
6. Their role as a sponsor and change agent, leading by example;
7. Directing leadership capability to drive entrepreneurial university/enterprise agenda ;
8. The entrepreneurial university concept has a seat at the university governance table;

Audience:

• Rector
• Vice Rector,
• Dean level, and
• Leaders of Research Institutes/Centres/Groups

The programme was delivered by Professor Gurpreet Jagpal-the Professor and Director of the Aldridge Institute for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship and Neil Marshall-Adjunct Professor of Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Faculty.

The project is funded by the British Council’s Creative Spark: Higher Education Enterprise Programme. The five-year initiative aims to help develop the creative economy and enterprise skills to support sustainable development and social welfare.

The Program is being coordinated by ISU Development Office.