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Introduction to the 2006 Action Matrix

The 2006 York Conference engaged the international community in a diversity of presentations, workgroups and discussions through which a range of development challenges arose.

The matrix presented encapsulates the key priorities for action and these are listed against each of the four main conference themes.

Main Conference Themes and Associated Actions

1. Curriculum and Pedagogy
2. Entrepreneurial Outcomes
3. Institutional Approaches
4. Educator Development
5. International Relations

Curriculum and Pedagogy

The Development Agenda:

• Continue to grow the evidence base to support policy making at all levels, extending in scale and scope the existing NCGE mapping exercise.
• Pilot good practice studies from the UK and other countries providing insights into how practice relates to the delivery of entrepreneurial outcomes.
• Extend pilots to cover different contexts, cultures, and approaches within and between disciplines.
• More examples and experiences of the practice of delivering entrepreneurial learning opportunities are required.

Key Goals for the Community:

1. A better evidence base and understanding of the landscape - quantitatively and qualitatively
2. More experience and practice across diverse contexts captured and shared
3. Curricula development 'for' entrepreneurship
4. Increased levels of exchange between educators and stakeholders

Next Steps:

1. NCGE to circulate the mapping template to interested partners - outside HEIs in England - to extend the scale and scope of data collection
2. All community members to provide existing good practice projects, presentations and reports for uploading onto the entrepreneurship educators online website
3. NCGE to categorise materials by: country; discipline and approach
4. All community members to identify opportunities for further good practice studies

Entrepreneurial Outcomes

The Development Agenda:

1There is a strong desire for clarifying a set of entrepreneurial outcomes that can be operationalised at different levels in terms of individual learning outcomes and broader social and economic goals.

• It is not clear how such outcomes relate to the range of policy concerns at national, regional and institutional levels.

Key Goals for the Community:

1. A shared outcomes template with broad application
2. Clarity with all stakeholders of how the outcomes support key policy concerns

Next Steps:

1. Through consultation further develop the existing outcomes template to meet expressed needs and create explicit levels in the template structure - for learning; activity; macro-level
2. Prepare a community-led document for circulation to key stakeholders in central and regional government and across the higher education sector
3. Community members to consider selected workshops and policy meetings

Institutional Approaches

The Development Agenda:

• There is no single model suitable for all institutions.
• External and institutional factors affect the approach to entrepreneurship education in particular institutions.
• Enabling equal support research, teaching and for extra-curricula activity is likely to have a positive impact on the scale and scope of provision.
• Identifying and capturing the variety of institutional models and approaches will create a better understanding of what may be working in which contexts.

Key Goals for the Community:

1. A diversity of institutional models captured, categorized and disseminated
2. Establish Vice-Chancellor leaders in higher education as exemplars and role models

Next Steps:

1. Identify top-down exemplars and set up project(s) to capture/record
2. Prepare documents/materials for dissemination
3. Set up high level workshop with leading exemplars: US and UK and elsewhere
4. NCGE to work with the UK RDA Task Group

Educator Development

The Development Agenda:

• The future development of the field will require leaders in entrepreneurship education and existing educators are seeking further continuing professional development opportunities.
• There is a need to embed a deeper conceptual understanding of entrepreneurship within an education context as well as to extend the tool-bag of the entrepreneurial educator.
• Assist and help develop models for incentives designed to enable the development of entrepreneurship educators.

Key Goals for the Community:

1. develop a growing base of leaders in entrepreneurship education
2. establish rewards and recognition for exemplar educators

Next Steps:

1. establish international leadership development opportunities for entrepreneurship educators
2. enhance the support for the community of entrepreneurship practitioners through online opportunities
3. in the UK, establish an stakeholder advocacy group for enhancing educator development
4. explore opportunities for international exchange of educators
5. explore opportunities for recognizing/rewarding excellence in entrepreneurship education

International Relations

The Development Agenda:

• Entrepreneurship education has been evolving around the world for the past few decades. A wealth of experience and practice exists and can be shared more widely.
• The NCGE online mapping template can be made available for use in different languages thereby creating comparative data on the international landscape for entrepreneurship education

Key Goals for the Community:

1. A better understanding of the global experiences and practices in entrepreneurship education
2. Increased partnership with the international community
3. Increased sharing of international good practice

Next Steps:

1. Further develop the partnership with Kauffman to explore additional opportunities for mapping and good practice projects
2. Continue to work with existing international partners to conduct mapping studies and further good practice studies
3. Extend the international partnerships into new areas