Software Entrepreneurship Education Group
Software entrepreneurship is a specialist area that generates extraordinary innovation and new business creation, but for these technology start-ups to work well demands particular approaches.
This area of the Education Community will
support those technology and entrepreneurship educators focusing on
this emerging area of research and education.
Business skills
are increasingly important for students looking to commercialise a
research project or an innovative idea or even just pursue a career in
software.
Although general business education is of course
very valuable, software entrepreneurs encounter specific challenges in
areas like business models and industry value chains that make them
worth special consideration.
Software industry pioneer Microsoft
is already active in this field and the National Council for Graduate
Entrepreneurship and Microsoft have been working together closely to
provide opportunities for educators to help develop the educational
curriculum and resources that Microsoft has developed.
- On 17th January 2008 Microsoft's Software Entrepreneurship for Students Curriculum was launched at a special event hosted by Microsoft UK and the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) at the Microsoft UK campus in Reading.
- A second event, the Software Entrepreneurship for Students Faculty Workshop, was held at Bournemouth University on 23rd-24th June 2008.
More events are planned and this website will be developed to encourage the continued sharing and exchange of ideas among everyone interested in software entrepreneurship.