Andy Penaluna, Professor Emeritus of the University of Wales, has worked in entrepreneurial education all over the world. He has collaborated with governments in over 50 countries including Egypt, Macedonia, and Wales as well as with the United Nations and the European Commission to design curricula and educational strategies that develop entrepreneurship skills and knowledge in young people of all ages. He sees entrepreneurial education as requiring a truly multi-disciplinary approach, and draws from design, classics, neuroscience and other disciplines to develop both the personal skills required to be enterprising, as well as knowledge about business concepts such as finance, investment and IP. As a member of the UK’s IP in Universities and Colleges Steering Group, he is clear that starting this type of education early is essential. As QAA’s lead on Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, and a leading Associate for AdVanceHE, his prime concern is that entrepreneurial education needs quality aware entrepreneurial educators.
