22 December 2009

Martin Allison, Dean of Business & Law, and Dr David Pollard attended the first International Enterprise Promotion Convention held in Harrogate on 15-17 November 2009.

The conference, held during Global Entrepreneurship Week, attracted a total of 502 delegates from around the world, with many from industry and commerce as well as higher education.

It included tracks on advancing enterprise education and training, business creation and start-ups, community and social enterprises, developing enterprise in emerging and transition economies and innovation and knowledge transfer, to mention but a few. Plenary sessions were also organised around key conference themes including entrepreneurship education policy and practice and enterprise support policies and practices.

In the opening session, Martin Allison presented a strong argument for the need for the small business sector and education to work closely together in order to springboard the nation′s economic recovery. The recovery was in need of leadership and this was unlikely to be provided by politicians, but could be instigated through an effective association between the small business and the education sector. This would entail a stronger concern for enterprise-related education on the part of the university sector as a whole and not just the new universities, although the latter were perhaps better placed to make such provision.

Dr David Pollard presented a session on knowledge and best practice transfer, discussing the role of human resource development in increasing an organisation′s knowledge-related capability.

Leeds Metropolitan University has evolved a strong reputation for enterprise education and seeks to ensure that curricula and teaching methods and contexts are similarly enterprising.

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