Enterprise Fellowship
There is an increasing demand for academic staff capable of teaching knowledge transfer in an entrepreneurial setting. These staff require academic knowledge, teaching skills and an understanding of business mechanisms and practical enterprise.
The Aims
The Enterprise Academic is capable of teaching the subject from a base of theoretical knowledge backed up by practical experience of the entrepreneurial process. The Enterprise Fellowship has been designed to produce academics with this unique combination of knowledge, skills and experience.
The aims of the Fellowship are to:
- Train participants to become Enterprise Academics.
- Support these individuals in their professional activities and development aspirations.
- Recognise individual professional achievement.
- Advance professional practice.
- Enhance the experience of students in higher education.
- Encourage development of learning communities with shared values.
The Course
Fellows will be expected to undertake an Enterprise Project. These projects lie at the core of MSEC's Masters of Enterprise degree providing students with the opportunity to take an idea to market and to launch their own enterprise if they so wish. Undertaking an Enterprise Project will allow the Fellows once qualified, to supervise postgraduate MEnt student projects.
Those joining the Fellowship Scheme undertake a range of activities in the fields of enterprise and entrepreneurship, including:
- Teaching, learning, mentoring and assessing.
- Course development, evaluation and management (including marketing).
- Technology transfer from knowledge base to marketplace.
They do so wishing to lecture in enterprise within universities or colleges of higher or further education. The Fellowship Scheme is designed so that its duration is between 18 months and 24 months on a full-time basis.
Learning Outcomes
The Enterprise Teaching Fellowship Scheme includes as part of its learning outcomes those of the University of Manchester's Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PCAP), which is a mandatory part of the Fellowship Scheme. Because the Enterprise Teaching Fellowship Scheme extends beyond these learning outcomes, it is important to define the specialisms that Enterprise Academics have above and beyond those given in the PCAP.
On completion of the Fellowship, Fellows will be able to:
- Design, teach and assess enterprise curricula to undergraduate, postgraduate and short-course students through means including face-to-face teaching, supported independent learning and projects.
- Promote enterprise learning to students and staff within and beyond universities through means including publicity and academic policy development.
- Undertake study and evaluation of enterprise, entrepreneurship and technology transfer and feed this and other related information and insights into MSEC's enterprise course design and teaching.
- Mentor students through the technology transfer process from evaluation of business proposition through to establishment of a company.
The last learning outcome requires special attention. The successful teaching of entrepreneurship with regard to new business creation involves, to a great extent, the nurturing of the entrepreneurial spirit in the student. This requires a team to be built around the student that provides the necessary guidance at each stage during business creation because the student has to be given advice that is timely.
The MSEC model of business creation uses scientific, business and academic advisors to fulfil these different roles because the scope is probably too wide for one individual to fill successfully. This means that the enterprise academic has to understand the roles played by the scientific and business advisors to help build a successful team.
To view profiles of our Enterprise Academics and our current
Enterprise Fellows please visit our people section.
To view profiles of our Enterprise Academics and our current Enterprise Fellows please visit our staff section. If you are interested in applying for a Fellowship please contact Rowena James +44 (0)161 306 84 87 (68467 internally) rowena.james@manchester.ac.uk.
