Welcome toThe Centre for Enterprise at Manchester Metropolitan University

Putting Knowledge to work

Professor Lynn Martin, PhD, l.martin@mmu.ac.uk

Director of the Centre for Enterprise and President of the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship

OverviewHow do researchers cooperate with the SMEs in the EU member states: Examples of cooperation of research institutes and SMEs in Western Europe

Centre for Enterprise Manchester Metropolitan University

Core values and aims

What we do I, II, III

Can this be copied?

Northwest of England• The third largest UK region - 6.9 million people in 2010 - the eighth in area

(14,100 sq km, 6 % of the total area of the UK.)

• Over 87 % of the Northwest population live in urban areas - the second highest UK regional population density, 490 people per sq km, London has 4,980 people per sq km.

• But population density varies. The region has the second largest area of National Parks in England, the highest mountain (Scafell Pike) and the largest lake (Windermere). It also has two large conurbations, Greater Manchester and Merseyside.

• Merseyside has 1.4 million residents (2,100 people per sq km). Cumbria is largely rural with 0.5 million residents living in 6,800 sq km, (70 people per sq km).

• The North West region contributed nearly 10 per cent of the UK’s GVA.

• 11 of the UK’s 113 universities are in the Northwest

• 65 of the FTSE 100 companies

• Manchester was the world's first industrialised city, now the second destination for visitors after London and the third in the UK

• Political and trading freedom

• NO REGIONAL AGENCY following Coalition Government’s changes

Centre for Enterprise at Manchester Metropolitan University

Manchester Metropolitan University

• 38,000 students

• Innospace, business incubator

• Digital innovation www.diginnmmu.com/

•Centre for Enterprise,

•34 staff, research and enterprise

• 200+ small firms in 2013 (1500+ over the last 8 years),

•6 large firm relationships

•14 research projects, 10 journal articles, 5 conference papers•working with 2000 MMU students

Putting knowledge to work

• Applied research for growth

•New research in business models

•New research in leadership

•Applied research in sustainability

•National & international profile

Knowledgeable, collaborative and enterprising

•Academic scholarship and world class research•Entrepreneurial vision in action•Strong links with professional bodies, business associations and small firms

•Dedicated team of talented and experienced professionals

•15000 small firms

•Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small businesses

•ERDF Knowledge Action Network

•National Observatory for Growth Thinking

•Research Council grants for sustainable business and entrepreneurship

CfE - What do we do with SMEs?

Work with firms directly

• To develop owner managers• Goldman Sachs 10000 Small business Programme• ERDF Knowledge Action Network• NWDA LEAD programme• Fast Forward Funding

• To develop other business staff• Managers2Leaders• Higher Level apprenticeships

• To bring companies together • Love2Trade • Leadership In Action• Action Learning Sets

CfE - What do we do? 2We work with staff, student and graduate

entrepreneurs• Encourage students to be enterprising m-

2000 students on relevant enterprise programs through ERDF Enterprise Champion I and II

• ERDF set up of Innospace, MMU business incubator

•13 projects across MMU to support new businesses with staff

•40 students and graduates with in-depth business support in current Enterprise Champion scheme

•200+ students into graduate work via ESF Graduate Employability project

•Connecting in – companies support each of these activities

CfE - What do we do? 3

Base our enterprise on knowledge through research into entrepreneurship, leadership and sustainability

• National Observatory for Gazelle Thinking with Grant Thornton, Winning Pitch

• ESRC research project on Gazelle Thinking with winning Pitch

• ESRC Procurement by small firms and social enterprises

• ESRC exploration of mciorproviders inc are

• ESRC entrepreneurship at Groundwork UK, cross regional study

• EPSRC project to map sustainable businesses in energy

• Joint working with the University of Oxford, SAID, to explore the role of women in the global economy

• Reports to All party Parliamentary Groups in Entrepreneurship, growth and Micro Enterprises and to relevant budgetary committees

• Reports to European Commission Think Tanks and initiatives on growth, entrepreneurship, leadership and sustainability

What does Cooperation look like?

Through programmes funded by the public and private sector• Goldman Sachs Foundation• Fast Forward Finance Scholarship Fund for SME owner-managers• Coca Cola, Wallmart

Through joint research projects• New recycling technology projects (HEIF)• New business models in energy (EPSRC)• New business models in social enterprises (ESRC)• New product and service development

Through company-to-company links• University as trust broker• Rules of engagement• Large group and small group learning• Knowledge Action Sets (ERDF Knowledge Action Networks)• Love2Trade• Tea with the Prof

Interested?We would love to work with you

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