E-Magazine
Editorial
Professor David Rae
This issue of Enterprising Matters appears in your in-box at a time when enterprise and Higher Education, in particular, are highly topical – certainly here in the UK, and internationally as well.
At the end of January, The Enterprise Alliance UK was launched at the Houses of Parliament, giving ISBE and our co-founders, Enterprise Educators UK and NACUE a platform as the independent voice of enterprise education. This will become increasingly important as we move into a period of major policy and funding changes in the UK, both before and, we might anticipate, following the General Election. Much of the growth in Higher Education and the expansion of research and entrepreneurship education have been publicly funded. It is clear that as the era of ‘big government’ ends, entrepreneurship will be vital for economic regeneration through creating new businesses, jobs and innovation. But it is also evident that we, as researchers and enterprise educators, will ourselves have to become even more enterprising in promoting and securing resources for our work.
ISBE continues to make a distinctive contribution to learning for entrepreneurship and enterprise education. This track at the 2009 ISBE Conference maintained its role as the most subscribed track in terms of papers presented, yet increased the quality of papers presented overall. The call for papers for the 2010 Conference is imminent and we look forward to your contributions which will further advance theory and practice in this field.
Enterprising Matters brings together articles which address various aspects of enterprise education and contribute to the debate on its relevance, future direction and development. There are also two inspirational contributions on the use of narratives and stories in entrepreneurship research. Narratives enable us to connect and make sense of our learning. We all live and work in a time when there is tremendous need and potential for entrepreneurial learning, and therefore great opportunities to develop and share our different narratives of entrepreneurship.
Professor David Rae, ISBE Vice-President Education
