PP1.17 INSPIRE-ing workforce skills in entrepreneurship and innovation in Peshawar
Date: 06.03.2013
Time: 15.45 - 16.30
Speaker: Dr Lorraine Warren & Dr Muhammad Nouman
The poster session will present a case study of the outcomes of the INSPIRE Strategic Partnership between the University of Southampton’s School of Management (UK) and IMSciences, Peshawar (Pakistan), which is supported by the British Council and the Higher Education Council in Pakistan. This international partnership has been created to support new teaching initiatives, new research projects and business development with IMSciences, Peshawar in entrepreneurship and innovation.
Concerning the themes of this conference, the poster session will demonstrate how the project, through the partner universities, will respond through processes of knowledge exchange to the challenges of creating workforce skills for sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation in the Peshawar region.
The project aims to do this by faculty exchange, new split-site PhD scholarships, and research programmes to create evidence-based new knowledge that will support curriculum development and delivery (PG and UG) and engender proposals concerning the sustainability, governance, leadership, and development of SMEs in North West Pakistan. The project will also contribute to developing new knowledge-based networks by facilitating outreach to improve performance, management practice of SMEs and enhance their relationships with HEIs in the region.
Dr Mine Karatas-Ozkan from the Management School at the University of Southampton also contributed to this poster.
The poster session will include reference to:
• introducing INSPIRE – its history, issues covered, achievements so far
• the potential for new knowledge to support curriculum, SME development and policy – networks, value creation and business model development
• the potential for high-impact research articles that extend current thinking on low-tech innovation, entrepreneurial identity and social innovation, particularly how entrepreneurs and SME owner-managers in conflicted regions can develop and influence change
• the relationship between research, curriculum and outreach
• issues, challenges and opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship education (PG and UG)and outreach in the Pakistani SME sector (gemstones, leather, marble).
• lessons learned from INSPIRE research thus far in relation to skills development in SMEs in the region
Tags: IMSciences, inspire, seminar