Lester Lloyd-Reason, Roger Mumby-Croft and Leigh Sear won the best paper at the efmd Entrepreneurship Conference for their paper ‘Entrepreneurship Education: Embedding Practitioner Experience’.
The paper questions the appropriateness of the way in which enterprise and entrepreneurship is taught within UK HEIs. It looked at how UK HEIs are responding to criticisms from the policy community and others, commenting that there has been a focus on traditional teaching and learning pedagogies, which often hinder practitioner engagement.
The paper argues that there is a lack of insights as to how external practitioners from different contexts can be embedded within the development and delivery of enterprise education offerings.
The paper concludes by using the ground breaking BA (Hons) Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Management programme offered by Anglia Ruskin University, developed and delivered jointly by academics and world class entrepreneurs, as an example of good practice of how practitioner experience can be successfully embedded into the academic curriculum.
