Publication - Strategy/plan
Entrepreneurial Campus: summary
Summary of The Entrepreneurial Campus: The higher education sector as a driving force for the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
List of Actions by Theme
| Action # | Action | Carried out by |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Develop an aligned “place based” approach that forges close links and strong industrial collaborations across your regional stakeholders | Institutions |
| 2 | Collaborate and align across institutions within a region sharing programmes and initiatives rather than replicating them on each site | Institutions |
| 3 | Simplify and enable access to academics for businesses looking to innovate | Institutions |
| 4 | Map and align the activities of Scotland’s national Techscaler network and local/ regional institutions | Institutions |
| 5 | Develop an aligned “place based” approach that forges close links and strong industrial collaborations across your regional stakeholders | Institutions |
| 6 | Investigate how Venture Studios/3rd party Incubators/accelerators might support the Scottish entrepreneurial ecosystem | Government |
| Action # | Action | Carried out by |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Broaden the focus of entrepreneurial activity to include social and impact-led entrepreneurship as part of ‘mainstream’ entrepreneurship teaching and support | Institutions |
| 8 | Provide a range of funding to our emerging social and impact-led businesses | Gov’t Agencies/ Institutions |
| 9 | Work with organisations like (SIS) to leverage the full potential of combined networks | Institutions |
| 10 | Maximise use of regional and national resources/assets to progress positive social and environmental outcomes | Institutions |
| 11 | Create a National Centre for Social and Impactled Entrepreneurship that provides services to institutions, helping them to develop their social entrepreneurship offerings | Government |
| Action # | Action | Carried out by |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | Prioritise the development of an entrepreneurial mindset institutions creating a culture that embraces entrepreneurship amongst students, staff, and academics | Institutions |
| 13 | Ensure that staffing levels (including external mentors and advisors) support the potential for entrepreneurial behaviour across institutions | Institutions |
| 14 | Create an organisational structure and accountabilities that strengthen entrepreneurial teaching and support in institutions | Institutions |
| 15 | Partner with, and leverage, government funded/3rd sector organisations that have relevant expertise | Government |
| Action # | Action | Carried out by |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | Offer high-quality, credit bearing entrepreneurial courses to all students and postgraduates | Institutions |
| 17 | Attract and develop high quality computer science students by providing flexible pathways into education | Institutions |
| 18 | Technology students should be taught the fundamentals of the internet economy through case studies of tech start-ups and be exposed to internet economy best practice in product development | Institutions |
| 19 | Students have access to a significant number of co-curricular, cross faculty, entrepreneurial based courses | Institutions |
| 20 | Students participate in interdisciplinary/joint undergraduate projects | Institutions |
| 21 | Provide field trips and learning experiences to regions where best practice is demonstrated (e.g. Silicon Valley) | Institutions |
| 22 | Offer courses in social and impact-led entrepreneurship alongside conventional “For Profit” Entrepreneurship | Institutions |
| 23 | Ensure every opportunity is taken to review course content across all faculties, integrating entrepreneurial thinking, teaching, and approaches where applicable | Institutions |
| Action # | Action | Carried out by |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | Provide structured, open, and extensive access for staff, students and graduates to entrepreneurial extra-curricular support not constrained by location, background, or personal circumstances | Institutions |
| 25 | Establish and scale a national, cross institution competition for start-ups and spin-outs. | Government |
| 26 | Create opportunities for CS students to experience developing products/prototypes as well as deliver a prototyping service | Institutions |
| 27 | Launch a National Summer School for tech start-ups | Government |
| 28 | Deliver a range of extracurricular activities focused on grand challenges and creative problem solving | Institutions |
| 29 | Make available more computer science and entrepreneurial internships to students | Institutions |
| 30 | Develop/grow institution-based start-up events similar to SLUSH[6] | Government/ Institutions |
| Action # | Action | Carried out by |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | Connect, and create meaningful relationships, with your entrepreneurial alumni and local entrepreneurial community | Institutions |
| 32 | Build a database of entrepreneurial alumni expertise that can be easily accessed and interrogated | Institutions |
| 33 | Create roles within the institution that facilitate easy access to alumni as advisors and mentors | Institutions |
| 34 | Ensure graduate founders remain connected with their institution in order to coach the next generation of founders | Institutions |
| Action # | Action | Carried out by |
|---|---|---|
| 35 | Design and implement a user centric technology transfer approach that meets the founders’ expectations in terms of timelines to complete an investment | Institutions |
| 36 | Reduce expectations of the level of equity to be retained by the institution | Institutions |
| 37 | Where an institution requires involvement in the ongoing governance of a spin-out, ensure that the skill set, knowledge, and capability of the institution's representative on the spin-out’s board is at the appropriate level | Institutions |
| 38 | Set royalties at rates that ensure that revenues are being used for rapid growth rather than paying debt | Institutions |
| 39 | Ensure that the level of support and engagement offered by an institution encourages future pay back and ongoing relationships between the university and founder | Institutions |
| 40 | Improve the support and education provided to spin-out founders | Institutions |
| Action # | Action | Carried out by |
|---|---|---|
| 41 | Establish an easy to access/understand guide/directory listing grant-makers and inventors | Government/ Agencies |
| 42 | Provide students with access to micro grants (linked to a learning programme) to test ideas | Government/ Institutions |
| 43 | Provide a VC managed Proof of Concept/ Prototyping Grant Fund | Government |
| 44 | Create specific funds aimed at early-stage EC company development (take a regionally aligned approach) | Government |
| 45 | Encourage and enable institutions to invest in start-ups/spin-outs directly or indirectly | Institutions |
| 46 | Provide access to, and active attraction of, Alumni, VCs and PE funding | All Stakeholders |
| 47 | Provide access to reliable and intelligent funding | Government |
| 48 | Investigate alumni funding opportunities | Institutions |
| 49 | Identify corporate funding opportunities | Institutions |
| 50 | Establish funding for an ongoing summer school programme | Government |
| 51 | Establish funding that supports programs that drive diversity and inclusivity | Institutions |
| 52 | Include “entrepreneurial success” as part of the measure of research success | Government/ Agencies |
| Action # | Action | Carried out by |
|---|---|---|
| 53 | Create a talent pipeline of young people who are engaged, inspired and embrace an entrepreneurial mindset through their primary and secondary education | Government |
| Action # | Action | Carried out by |
|---|---|---|
| 54 | Adopt a framework/accreditation system to help individual institutions gauge their level of entrepreneurial maturity as a simple start point for future activity | Government |
| 55 | Establish a guiding framework for the change | Government |
| 56 | Develop and adopt measures and KPIs that will demonstrate success | Government/ Agencies |
| 57 | Establish a strong quality assurance regime that ensures the quality of the inputs to the system | All Stakeholders |
| 58 | Establishing an umbrella function to oversee the change across our tertiary institutions | Government |
Contact
Email: STER@gov.scot
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