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Software Engineering Education and

Entrepreneurship Landscape

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Why Me?

•  Wrote my first program in 1979 – Basic on a Commodore Pet

•  First used the internet in 1987 •  My largest programme was a C++ Object

Oriented 3G wireless network model •  First used the web in 1992 •  Started a mobile phone games company •  The last programing I did was PHP for a

website 2011

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What do the following people have in common?

•  Bill Gates •  John Carmack •  Larry Page •  Sophie Wilson •  Steve Jobs •  Paul Allen •  Tim Berners-Lee

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What do the following people have in common?

•  Bill Gates – Basic Language •  John Carmack – Multi-Player First Person

Shooter •  Larry Page - Google •  Sophie Wilson – Acorn Computers/ BBC

Basic •  Steve Jobs – NeXT Kernal •  Paul Allen – Basic Language •  Tim Berners-Lee – Web Mark-up

Language

Our  role  models  are  seen  through  media  1nted  glasses  

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GEEKS HAVE INHERITED THE EARTH!

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Is all software done?

Is there anything new to do?

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What’s happening in our Schools?

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Drop tedious ICT lessons, says Intellect

•  There have been fresh calls for schools to dump the dull ICT lessons that are turning kids off IT and failing to create the type of IT-savvy employees that UK businesses need.

Source:  silicon.com  

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What do school students think?

•  The system likes you to be a –  Doctor, Lawyer, Nurse,

Artist, Journalist •  Software Engineers:

–  Work in Diverse Fields –  Change jobs on

average every 18 months

–  Geeks –  Contractors / Self

Employed

Proceedings  of  the  World  Congress  on  Engineering  and  Computer  Science  2010  Vol  II    WCECS  2010,  October  20-­‐22,  2010,  San  Francisco,  USA      

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Software Industry

UK 1.  Sage 2.  Misys 3.  Autonomy 4.  Logica 5.  Acision 6.  Mico Focus 7.  Sophos 8.  Aveva 9.  Northgate IS 10. IRIS Software Group

Global 1.  Microsoft (USA) 2.  IBM (USA) 3.  Oracle (USA) 4.  SAP (DE) 5.  EMC (USA) 6.  Symantec (USA) 7.  HP (USA) 8.  CA (USA) 9.  Intuit (USA) 10. Adobe (USA)

Source:  PWC.com  

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Video Generation

Talk about: •  Apps, Websites,

Games •  Entrepreneurs and

not Software developers

•  No longer news to be techy

•  Many tech business don’t create 1000’s of jobs

Big Bang •  After the success of

the show we have seen a rise in Physics students at A level (+20%) and University levels

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Is it better?

•  Turnover: £100m •  Turnover: £100k

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Is it better?

•  Turnover: £100m •  Profitability: 30-40%

•  Turnover: £100k •  Profitability: 5-10%

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Our Universities are some of the best in the world

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University Software Related Courses

•  239 Courses –  Computer Science (104 Courses) –  Computing –  Artificial Intelligence –  Open Source –  Internet Engineering –  Business Software Development –  Forensic Computing & Security –  Network Systems Management –  Software Engineering (66 courses) –  Computer Games Development –  Computer Hardware and Software –  Computer Science with a French/German/Spanish –  Software Application Development –  Applied Information –  Games Software Development/Production (101 courses)

Source:  UCAS.com  

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Not all degrees are the same

•  Bath – 440 UCAS Points – 100% Employment rate

•  Birmingham City – 240 UCAS Points – 70% Employment Rate

•  Anglia Ruskin – 220 UCAS Points – 50% Employment Rate

Computer  Science  First  Degree:    hHp://unistats.direct.gov.uk  

Average  Une

mploymen

t  stated  at  ~20%  

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Not all university’s are the same

•  A more diverse range of institutions providing degrees •  Charge from £3k to £9k •  Enterprise / Careers / KTP / Business Development /

Innovation / Business School •  Out of 151 HE institutions

–  46 have a professor of enterprise –  482 support staff –  562 enterprise lecturers (range from –  4 staff on average (range from 50 - 0) –  35% provide enterprise modules –  On average 350 students are engaged in enterprise –  16% of students get any form of enterprise development –  63 university have incubators –  Average spend £1.5m per institution (per 16k students, £93/

student per year)

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Imperial College

•  Software Developers are enablers, creators of global wealth… –  There a reason McCoy is in the

engine room

•  Join with people who have ideas, resources –  Masters Business Students –  Technology –  Venture Funding (In/Ex)

•  So network and team build them

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Entrepreneur  

Opera1ons  

Sales  

Finance  

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To Join a SME, or not to join an SME

That is the question

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•  Owner Manager •  Business & Market •  Generic Small Business Issues

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Why join a start-up

•  Passion, Emotion •  Influence, Connectivity •  Ownership •  Startup years are like dog years •  Brands don’t create the person •  If you want to start a company, a startup

is the best place to learn •  Greater experience, diversity •  More fun

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Leaving Thoughts

•  We need to do a little more sales –  Its not software, its apps

•  Abstraction tools allow – Easy development earlier (e.g. Alice )

•  Role Models – Very few Brits and most of them live in the

USA

•  Venture Finance for Start-ups

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Thank you

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