by Professor Tim Vorley, Chair in Entrepreneurship, Sheffield University Management School
Researchers and practitioners in the field of entrepreneurship continue to push the boundaries about what we understand about entrepreneurs and how they operate. This has important implications for entrepreneurship education, both in terms of what leading businesses and management schools teach and how they teach it.
Entrepreneurship education is no longer characterised by classes on start-up and business plan assessments. Over the past five years the EFMD Entrepreneurship Education Conference has showcased a range of pedagogic approaches and practices at the frontiers of the field. In 2017 the theme of the EFMD conference focuses on ‘Entrepreneurship inside Organisations’ as an area of entrepreneurship and management education that is growing in interest.
Whether ‘corporate entrepreneurship’, ‘intrapreneurship’ or other variants thereof, the notion of entrepreneurial practices occurring within organisations is increasingly regarded as a driver of productivity and profitability. During conference the various keynotes, sessions and workshops will explore how companies have come to approach the challenge of becoming more entrepreneurial and what this means for entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial educators.
Students at business schools, from graduates to executives, are increasingly concerned with the question of how to foster entrepreneurship inside organisations, which for academics and entrepreneurship educators leads us to rethink what we are teaching and how we are teaching it. Through the conference participants will be encouraged to reflect upon and develop their own teaching practices and engagement, learning from peers and leading academics working in this area.
The 2017 EFMD Entrepreneurship Education Conference will take place from 8- 10 March 2017 at Sheffield University Management School. Join us!
About our hosts:
Sheffield University Management School is a leading business school with a world-class reputation for high quality teaching and ground-breaking research and cutting-edge thinking. It is home to the Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED), a team of researchers focused on enterprise and entrepreneurship, whose expertise feeds into a popular Masters in Entrepreneurship and Management. As well as advancing knowledge through research insights, CREED is committed to communicating its work to policymaking and practitioner communities to promote stronger entrepreneurial environments in the UK and internationally.
Working closely with businesses and organisations of all sizes, both on our doorstep and globally, is essential to all aspects of Sheffield University Management School; by doing this our research is informed by practitioners, our students benefit from a comprehensive employability programme, and we know we’re teaching cutting-edge material across all courses.