Section outline

  • This suite helps colleges understand their current entrepreneurial landscape and recruit an Entrepreneur in Residence who aligns with their context, priorities and learners.
     
    Resources included:
    College Entrepreneurship Capacity Baseline Assessment
    College Enterprise Personas and Ecosystem Profiles
    Entrepreneur-in-Residence Recruitment Framework
    Diagnostic tool to map:
    • Existing enterprise activity
    • Learner demographics
    • Partnerships
    • Curriculum strengths
    • Opportunities and barriers
    • Categorises colleges into six ecosystem types.
    • Helps identify suitable entrepreneurial approaches and partnership models.
    • Recruitment criteria
    • EiR profiles
    • Interview questions
    • Assessment dimensions
    • College personas matched with EiR characteristics

    What this provides: This project effectively acts as an entrepreneurship strategy and implementation toolkit.

    It helps colleges answer:

    • Where are we now?
    • What type of entrepreneurial activity suits our context?
    • What kind of Entrepreneur in Residence would have the greatest impact?
    • How can we recruit effectively?

    Potential uses:

    Strategic Planning
    Developing Business Cases
    Workforce and Partnership Development
    Recruitment
     
    Use the Baseline Assessment during annual planning or curriculum review.
     
    Provide evidence for investment in enterprise education, employability initiatives or EiR programmes.

    Use the Ecosystem Profiles to identify:

    • Appropriate industry partners
    • Local economic opportunities
    • Community collaborations

    Apply the Recruitment Framework when recruiting:

    • Entrepreneurs in Residence
    • Innovation Champions
    • External mentors
    • Employer partners