BASED on conventional assumptions, Welsh higher education institutions account for around 2.3% of GDP and 2.09% of Welsh employment. When you include the spending power of students, these figures rise to 3.19% of GDP and 2.36% of employment. These are significant figures, and while a difficult period is upon universities in terms of core funding, around half of the output attributable to universities is from beyond the Welsh public sector.
BUSINESS-minded teenagers have the opportunity to make their entrepreneurial ideas a reality. Exeter-based Young Entrepreneurs' Support Solution Project (YESS), an initiative designed specifically for 14 to 19-year-olds who have an interest in running their own business, is running the Tenner Tycoon challenge, in association with Enterprise UK. The project is lending Pounds 200 to young entrepreneurs, Pounds 10 at a time.
THE best advertising agencies are entrepreneurial at heart, always looking for new ideas to increase profits. And with the annual results season having just finished, several themes emerge. Agencies say they are winning more business from clients in two key ways: by offering more marketing services across different disciplines -- not only advertising but also public relations, digital, social media, mobile and so on -- and more international territories.
NOW is time for the real work to begin. Last week, 50 Scottish university students completed a week-long entrepreneurial "boot camp", where they were fed on a strict diet of brainstorming and tests of their motivational skills and business planning. By the end of the week, 12 teams had developed business ideas that they pitched to a Dragons' Den-style panel made up of members of the Entreprenurial Exchange. At the end of the programme, the exchange's founder James Barlow, chief executive of Scottish Institute for Enterprise, said: "The feedback we've had from members of the exchange has been very positive and the students have been raving. It has been great.
In rapid changes and developments that are a daily occurrence, a need to change educational activities and practical prescriptions to suit all circumstances to the major challenges to be faced are compulsory and the institutions of higher education are forced to modify their educational activities and practical prescriptions to suit all circumstances in the present and future, of particular concern and priority to the major challenges to be faced. This is a permanent contact with all sectors that are interrelated with the profession and to alert appropriate investigative processes and target new services arising from the development of traditional exercise increasingly renewed but always with due respect for the ethical commitment. This paper aims to review the interrelated subjects in ...
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Entrepreneurial women in Torbay are being given a helping hand to develop their innovative ideas with the launch of a local branch of a national organisation aimed at helping women in business. The Torbay branch of Business Support Network SW will offer support to local women through networking and developing opportunities.
STUDENTS at Newton Abbot College are taking part in a national contest where entrepreneurial ideas turn into reality. Year Seven and Eight students are involved in the Make Your Mark With a Tenner competition, run by Enterprise UK.
IT WILL be like a breath of fresh air for two lucky people tomorrow when they are given the chance to see their business dream become a reality. The Barclays Bid competition will see 16 finalists battling to get their hands on a cash prize to kickstart their entrepreneurial ideas - with many inspired by green or environmentally friendly products.
An academic who has come up with an innovative way of using waste products in the pharmaceutical industry has won the top prize in the University of Plymouth's Business Ideas Challenge competition. The event aims to encourage staff and students of the university, and its partner colleges and organisations, to come up with entrepreneurial business ideas.
HERE in Wales, we have great entrepreneurial talent and many promising low-carbon ideas. But early-stage companies can often struggle to make the transition from concept to commercialisation owing to the high-risk nature of such ventures, and the associated difficulty in attracting financing and managerial talent.
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