Within the higher education sector, course offering, purpose and competition, and the need to engage with enterprising and innovative industry, is at the forefront of the minds of senior management. Therefore, recognising key individuals who support a university’s operations is vital. Acknowledging the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) 2011, Dr Robert Crammond identifies eight entrepreneurial personalities which an enterprising university must possess when developing relevant skills and courses, and responding to the needs of students, staff and partners.
Every day, universities embrace and instigate creativity, invention, and innovation. As I have stressed in previous writing and research, the concept of entrepreneurialism within universities is now relatively settled in both theory and practice. The development and applicability of new forms of enterprise-centric education and activity, has resulted in a slow but steady removal of ‘capitalistic connotations’ of enterprise and entrepreneurship. Moving away from chiefly focussing on organisational, commercial, and strategic management aspects; today we see enterprise and entrepreneurship appearing in HE programmes and projects in relation to culture, social mobility, and digitisation to name a few. This results in a number of important and influential individuals who I detail in this blog.
