This seminar, following on from the Enterprising University seminar in Spring 2003, is the first of a planned series of three, which will examine components of the enterprising university, in order to pool and develop expertise on making universities, and university systems, more entrepreneurial.  This is necessary if universities are to play their full role in the knowledge economy by creating new knowledge, helping to develop new products and companies through exploiting knowledge, transferring knowledge to companies and making staff and students more entrepreneurial.  

These activities also serve to increase and diversify sources of their income, as student participation rates increase without concomitant increases in state expenditure.  This first seminar will examine how the state can encourage universities to become more enterprising, with reference in the first instance to the UK and EU, and consider the cultural and organisational changes which are necessary in the university to facilitate a more enterprising approach.  Subsequent seminars will examine knowledge transfer and the ‘entrepreneurial curriculum’.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS SEMINAR
The seminar is of interest to university Vice-Chancellors, Pro Vice-Chancellors and their equivalents with a research and development brief, other senior managers with a brief to encourage enterprise, education planners, national policy makers, heads of commercial units, university science park directors, Registrars, Deans, directors of industrial liaison.