Print PageEntrepreneurship Research
| Project Title: | Entrepreneurship |
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| Principal Investigator: | Cormac McMahon |
| Contact Details: | cormac.mcmahon@itb.ie |
Project Description:
ITB is participating in a collaborative initiative, sponsored by the HEA's Strategic Innovation Fund, aimed at embedding entrepreneurship education into non-business disciplines. Accelerating Campus Entrepreneurship (ACE) aims to create entrepreneurial graduates through four strands of work:-
ACE has conducted substantial research across the full spectrum of relevant stakeholders in the university and IoT sectors: including students, entrepreneurship educators, heads of schools and departments, incubation-technology transfer managers, incubation start-ups, and presidents.ACE has conducted substantial research across the full spectrum of relevant stakeholders in the university and IoT sectors: including students, entrepreneurship educators, heads of schools and departments, incubation-technology transfer managers, incubation start-ups, and presidents.
- development of innovative curriculum and pedagogical tools to expand entrepreneurship's relevance in a non-business context;
- establishing best practice for cross-campus teaching of entrepreneurship;
- leveraging campus incubation centres for stronger linkages between academia and the business community;
- fostering an entrepreneurial culture at all levels within higher education;
