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Activity Five illustrates the importance of financial information and forecasting when starting a business. Financial information is important; it provides entrepreneurs with the evidence to support their decisions about a business and helps to justify those decisions when they present them to other people. About this case study The case study illustrates the importance of...
Activity Four illustrates the importance of understanding the business process. Controlling operations and technologies plays an important part in the growth of a business; it is important that an entrepreneur pays close attention to how their business works and how performance can be improved so that they are in a position to take it forward...
Activity Three illustrates the importance of understanding customers and competitors when starting a business. To run a successful business you need to understand who your customers are and importantly, how you are going to reach them. About this case study The case study illustrates the importance of understanding customers and competitors when starting a business....
Activity Two illustrates the importance of people within a business. Business success does not just rely upon the qualities and resources of the individual entrepreneur, a good business also needs good staff. In this activity we explore the importance of recruiting the right staff to the ongoing success of a business. About this case study...
Activity One illustrates the importance of vision and opportunity when starting a business. Discovering and creating opportunities is central to the notion of entrepreneurship. There is much debate about whether entrepreneurs discover opportunities, such as spotting a gap in a market, or create opportunities from their knowledge or experience. Regardless of how the opportunity comes...
After a busy ten days of Induction activities, we gave our new cohort of MSc Enterprise students a 'week off' from networking to attend a few lectures and classes. Suitably re-charged we all plunged back into the fray with our 'Networking and Nibbles' event held on Tuesday 6th October at Calls9’s office on the Headrow in Leeds city centre.
The University’s work in supporting enterprising students is being showcased at a series of national award ceremonies this autumn.
The first successful award ceremony saw Kairen Skelley, head of the University’s business start-up service, SPARK, being announced as the HE Enterprise Champion at the National Enterprise Educator Awards on Thursday 10 September 2015.
In addition to being shortlisted for the Duke of York Award for University Entrepreneurship, we've received the exciting news that we have also been shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Entrepreneurial University of the Year 2015!
You may have noticed some small, but significant, changes to the Leeds Enterprise Centre (or 'LEC') lately? The black has changed to white, the sparkler has burnt out, subtle splashes of colour have started to appear and, most importantly, we have a new name! The Leeds Enterprise Centre is now the Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Studies.
We've just received news that the University of Leeds have been shortlisted as a National Business Awards Finalists 2015 for the Duke of York Award for University Entrepreneurship!