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Enterprise Education
Nishan Canagarajah, Chair of CS&EE
Bristol – Science City
Bristol – Technology ClustersAerospace and Defence
Telecoms
Micro Electronics
Creative Media
Major Enterprise Initiatives
• Toshiba Research Labs (Communications)• Rolls Royce UTC (Composites)• Mobile VCE (Communications)• British Energy Partnership (Safety critical
systems)• 3CR (Computing, Communications,
Content)• DIF DTC (image and data fusion)
Bristol Approach
• We try and create an educational environment that prepares graduates ‘for’ enterprise
• Building entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and behaviour into the curriculum
• Use the Bristol eco-system
• Student led
Facilitating Enterprise• Providing sources of advice & feedback
• Funds for student start-up (£41k pa)
• Inspiration from real entrepreneurs
• Competitions to incentivise business ideas (£36k pa)
• Networks & Mentors
• SETsquared business incubator
Curricula Opportunities• ‘Hi-Tech Enterprise’
• 1st & 4th year option for Computer Science students• Taught by Entrepreneur/Silicon Valley experts from
SETsquared’s ‘entrepreneur-in-residence’
• Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Enterprise• Final year unit – open across Engineering Faculty• Taught in part by visiting entrepreneurial expertise & by
local businesses mentoring student teams
• Both units use a business plan and oral investment pitch as final assessment
Extra-curricular opportunities• Annual New Enterprise Competition for students
and staff worth £35k in prize funds
• Bristol University Business Angels (BUBA)
• Student-run group providing advice, networking, and £30k of university-provided investment funding
• Student Societies supported by a graduate ‘entrepreneur in residence’ - scholar with the Kaufmann Foundation
Success Stories: XMOS
• Software-defined Silicon Chips
• Founded in 2005
• Computer Science academic
and student part of founding team
• Student’s UG project key to co-
development
• Raised $16m investment in 2007
Success Stories: SnapFashion
• Visual Search Engine
• Developed by Computer Science
Finalist
• Winner of the University’s 2009
New Enterprise Competition
• Won £15k of funding and six
months’ free business incubation
within the University
Challenges
• Developing suitable metrics on impact
• External pressures/funders: REF
• Managing ‘conflicts’
• No one-size-fit-all
• Wherever the students take us
• Student-managed business incubation