1. Releasing the Entrepreneur Within
John Thompson
Roger M Bale Professor of Entrepreneurship
Huddersfield University Business School
HEA Enterprise & Employability Workshop
31 January 2007

2. My Questions for Today
What do we mean by enterprise and entrepreneurship
How do we develop and support each of them
What do we make available to whom?
Do we need to identify students with entrepreneurial potential?
If so, how?
And then what do we do?

3. Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Having ideas and doing something about them – a way of behaving
Entrepreneurship
Interest in start-up and self-employment

4. Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
In the Curriculum
Adjunct to the Curriculum

5. ‘Enterprise’ Workshops Identified as having potential
Entrepreneurship
‘Prepare for’
One - to - one
Mentoring
etc.
‘Enterprise’ Workshops
‘Teach about’
Enterprise &
entrepreneurship
modules
All Students
Identified as having potential

6. Developing New Businesses
The three inter-twined transformations:
The idea into a product
The ‘entrepreneur-in-waiting’ into a ‘competent practitioner’
The ‘spare bedroom’ into an organisation

7. TALENT, TEMPERAMENT, TECHNIQUE
Temperament Talent Technique

8. THE ENTREPRENEUR’S FACETS - The six character themes

9. THE “Seven Habits” OF THE EFFECTIVE ENTREPRENEUR
Social
Creativity
Focus
Outer
Ego
Advantage
Inner Ego
January 2007
Team

10. The Entrepreneur Indicator
30 ‘balanced’ questions
Instant ‘outline’ feeedback
Foundation for support and mentoring
Password access only

11. The Entrepreneur Indicator
Raw scores/ metrics are only part of it!
The Talent Chain
Inner-Outer Ego Balance
The Talent-Temperament Relationship
The Strength of Team
The Presence (or otherwise) of Social

13. Discussion Questions
Do we want to select students and offer them distinctive/customised support
If so, how? And what are we going to look for?
Do we want to provide a comprehensive enabling packaging – with advice, coaching and mentoring?
How do we engineer an effective match between would-be entrepreneur and enabler?

14. Key references Focus on the Entrepreneur -
Achieve your Potential
Bill Bolton &
John Thompson
Thomson Learning
2002
Enabling Entrepreneurs – Maximising Effectiveness in Advising, Coaching, Mentoring and Incubating New Businesses
John Thompson
University of Huddersfield/
UK Business Incubation
2006