Entrepreneurship is embedded in the fabric of Queen’s University Belfast which recognizes that an entrepreneurial identity is essential if Queen’s staff and graduates are to complete effectively in the global economy. The program aim was to ensure that every student was given the opportunity to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and the enterprise competencies to make a difference as the owner if a small business, social entrepreneur or someone creating innovative solutions within a corporate environment.

In every undergraduate pathway an existing module would be identified, within which entrepreneurship curriculum could be developed and linked to the existing subject area. For example, nursing students, would focus on developing social enterprise healthcare solutions and primary school teachers would focus on developing innovative sustainable curriculum to allow children between the ages of five and eleven to develop entrepreneurial competencies within their educational experience.

A unique curricular model ensures that all students take part in entrepreneurial activities outside the curriculum, in many cases making major business and social enterprise interventions. That “Elvis” acronym encapsulates the unique features of the Queen’s enterprise education system:

E ntrepreneurial staff teaching enterprise for life skills

L inking Studentes with the outside community to create the maximum amount of opportuniteies

V erifying outcomes and alumni links to measure the longitudinal impact of the system

I institutional support and innovative pedagogy

S tudent centred

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