1. Futures Entrepreneurship Centre
Away Day
6 September 2013

2. Aims for the day
• To meet and talk as a group – Ubuntu!
• To discuss the conceptual picture/model for
Futures

3. Introductions

5. Southern Cross

6. Overview of PU strategy
Hilary

7. The entrepreneurial university
concept?!

8. The Entrepreneurial University
defined
• Those universities providing opportunities,
practices, cultures and environments
conducive
• To actively encouraging and embracing
student and graduate entrepreneurship
• Where entrepreneurship is part of the fabric
of the institution
Allan Gibb, 2010

9. 9
1. INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
2. STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
3. INNOVATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL STAFF
4. ENTREPRENEURIAL IMPACT
Entrepreneurial University of the Year Awards
Assessment Criteria

10. What we need is an
entrepreneurial
society in which innovation and
entrepreneurship are normal,
steady
and continual.
Peter F. Drucker

11. Entrepreneurial mindset

12. Target markets
Start-up
Growth
Low
potential
High
potential
UGPG
Individualism, Group work, Scalability

13. Business
Growth
Personal
Growth
(Employability and
Entrepreneurial)

14. Purpose of Futures
• The vision of Plymouth University is “to be the enterprise
university”.
• The vision of PBS is “to graduating the most engaged, employable
and entrepreneurial students in the world and to achieve this we
are keen to work with organisations who want to give our students
opportunities to learn new skills, get involved and make a
difference”.
• The purpose of Futures is to provide a creative and social space in
which entrepreneurship and social enterprise can flourish and
become a force for global organisational, societal, economic and
environmental change.
Through the above purpose, Futures will contribute to the
enhanced reputation of PBS and Plymouth University thereby
attracting more potential applications, research funding, and
organisational sponsorship.

15. Target markets
Community:
Local, national and
international
Other PU entities
PBS students, staff and alumni

16. Critical performance areas of Futures
Futures

17. Building
blocks
Personal
entrepreneurial
development
Entrepreneurship
skills
Business
skills

18. Innovation Entrepreneurialism Ethics Sustainability Global thinking
Futures 5 pillars

19. Futures values
• Futures deliver quality and innovative services to the
entrepreneurial environment
• Futures continuously improve their own services through
innovation
• Futures members communicate in a transparent manner and always
try to keep all interest groups well informed
• Futures acts as a team and act for the greater good within the team
• Futures is clear about the specific value they provide to clients and
will only be involved if value can be added to the client's situation
• Futures collaborate with other specialists to exploit opportunities
and solve problems on a mutually beneficial and one-stop basis

21. Challenge for each person
• It is not business as usual
• Need to re-visit each job and to determine
how it should be tweaked to fall within the
Futures strategic guidelines
• To be finalised by end of September 2013

22. Complex? Yes!
• Drucker: I prefer simplicity (appropriate
treatment of complex challenges) on the other
side of complexity