Ketan Makwana | @Ketan_Makwana | @EnterpriseLabUK Looking Ahead The future for University & Business...

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Ketan Makwana | @Ketan_Makwana | @EnterpriseLabUK

Looking AheadThe future for University & Business Collaboration

Our current landscape

• Established a Skills Gap • Focus on innovation to be competitive• State of flux• institutions want guidance• Industry want perfection

• Fragmented approaches from both sides• So much work done in silos – often never seen or heard

The problems

• Unemployment in young people is a global issue• 75 million young people around the world are unemployed• But these issues can be drilled to a local level• These local issues differ in the weight of skills and potential• Layers of sceptics now influence attitude• Changing landscapes means platforms get out-dated quicker

Businesses

• Need to adopt a more ‘proactive recruitment’ cycle• Displace the rigid competencies for roles• Be more open sourced with recruiting from different talent pools• Foster more transparent and effective communications• Build robust mentoring into their organisations

Education

• Deliver more awareness to careers that can be established through the academic training learners are receiving• Adopt more tangible skill based experiences into the curriculum • Develop Leadership, Mentoring and Coaching practices• Look to address business needs through their academic programming

What about the learner?

• Are we really asking our client about their needs?• Where do they see are the gaps in their paths?

We keep talking about LIFE LONG LEARNING

Learners also need toLEARN ABOUT LIFE

Enterprise Lab’s mission

• To enhance employability whilst encouraging enterprise• To act as the bridge between institutions and enterprise• To facilitate life skills programs within the academic curriculum• To inspire enterprise to adopt more intrapreneurial approach• Our belief is to work with Micro-businesses to Large Organisations to

provide a larger talent pool• As an external our focus is to support Institution – Industry - Learner

UK perspective

• Start Up Loans• £130m project into supporting start up of businesses with funding & mentoring• 25,000 businesses started 33,000 jobs created

• Small Business Charter• 4700 work placements into UK Microbusinesses• Developing leaders from within business schools

• MentorsMe• Portal designed to help find a mentor

Considerations for a European Standard

• Build an EU driven platform that endorses mentoring within organisations and institutions• Reduce the red tape that surrounds agile firms to get funding to

support building bridging models• Incentivise Universities to incorporate employment criteria within

every year of the academic curriculum• Subsidise the cost of employment to engage more smaller businesses

to adopt a more proactive recruitment policy

My challenge to you

• Identify 3 things you would like to see change in your organisation• List 3 actions for each of these changes• Now break those actions into micro-steps you can implement from

tomorrow• Choose one change• Start to work on ways on delivering those changes

Together we can work towards prosperity

Stay disruptive – Stay Connected!

Ketan Makwanaketan@enterpriselab.co.uk +44 (0) 7507 867983+ 44 (0) 203 751 8140

@Ketan_Makwana | @EnterpriseLabUKLinkedin: uk.linkedin.com/in/ketamakwana/en

Ketan Makwana | @Ketan_Makwana | @EnterpriseLabUK Looking Ahead The future for University & Business...

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