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Inspiring People through Leadership - A culmination to the Leading Edge Programme. All delegates are ...
MSc Entrepreneurial Practice - The Centre for Enterprise launches its new and innovative MSc Entrepreneurial ...
NES Entrepreneur of Year 2008 Winner - Congratulations to Sally O’Donnell who scooped £1000 and the ...
Universities and the new enterprise landscape in the North West - On 3rd April over 100 delegates were ...
CfE kick starts debate on future of enterprise and universities - The future of enterprise and universities ...
Women and ethnic minorities benefit from NES - A national report has revealed that NES has a significant ...
North West welcomes 1,500th NES scholar - A fantastic milestone has been achieved with the 1,500th ...
‘Apprentice’ Star Helps Celebrate Leadership - Dr Sophie Kain from ‘The Apprentice’ joined financial ...
CfE to host major North West Enterprise Policy conference - The Centre for Enterprise at MMU are hosting ...
Leap into The Leading Edge Awards - On Friday 29th February 2008 we will be hosting our Leap into Leadership ...
Centre for Enterprise Helps 1,500 Disadvantaged Entrepreneurs - Disadvantaged entrepreneurs are the ...
Leading Edge recruitment for Series 4 - Three cohorts consisting of leaders and managers in the Financial ...
NES Scholar Scoops National Prize - North West NES scholar Lorraine Corrance has been named NES Entrepreneur ...
NES scholars depart for Babson College, USA - 5 North West NES scholars head off to Babson this month ...
Up and Away as Innospace Launches - Innospace, a new scheme to help graduates set up their own business ...
Research launched on pregnancy and business - Dr Julia Rouse, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre ...
New NES course starts in Skelmersdale - The North West NES programme for which MMU Business School is ...
Do you Need a Business Mentor? - Free business mentoring support is now available for entrepreneurs ...
New £1.2 million contract for NES - NES has been given the green light for a new contract that will ...
New high-growth scheme for entrepreneurs with IntoEnterprise - The Centre for Enterprise (CfE) at MMU ...
New Survey to Discover Entrepreneurs' Marketing Methods - The Centre for Enterprise (CfE) at MMU Business ...
Women Entrepreneurs Offered Free E-Learning with ELFE - In a multi-national project with partners across ...
Training Kicks Off for Business Mentors - The first four-day training course for business mentors has ...
NES Hailed as Beacon of Excellence - The New Entrepreneur Scholarship (NES) programme for which MMU ...
Average NES entrepreneur invests £17,000 in business - A recent nationwide survey carried out by the ...
Call for Business Mentors - The Centre for Enterprise at MMU Business School has joined forces with ...
Get emotionally intelligent! Free leadership training for city - SMALL professional firms are being ...
Graduates celebrate at biggest NES graduation in Manchester - North West NES graduates will celebrate ...
Free incubation space for entrepreneurs in Manchester - Graduate entrepreneurs will be given the opportunity ...
North West NES businesses turnover above £20.5 million - A new survey has revealed that the turnover ...
Launch of Business Competition with £1,000 Prize - Entrepreneurs who need extra cash for their businesses ...
New Course for Creative Industries - A ground-breaking new NES programme specifically designed for entrepreneurs ...
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Critical Reflections on Social Enterprise - Part of the MMUBS Centre for Enterprise Seminar Series 28th ...
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Ozzie Jones

Welcome to the Centre for Enterprise

The Centre for Enterprise (CfE) in MMUBS was launched in March 2001 to bring together activities related to entrepreneurship and managing SMEs. During the last six years, CfE staff have used funding from a wide range of sources to support entrepreneurs and established smaller firms in the North West of England.

The CfE is hosted a one day conference on 3rd April 2008 entitled "Universities and Northwest Business Support: The New Enterprise Landscape". Find out more about happened and gain access to the presentations here.

The CfE is North West provider for the New Entrepreneur Scholarship (NES), originally an initiative by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in his former role as Chancellor. Since 2000, NES has helped over 1,000 entrepreneurs set up new businesses in the region. 

The CfE is a research centre as well as a mechanism for supporting small businesses and we have 20 staff engaged on a number of externally-funded projects. All research staff disseminate the results of their work through participation in major conferences and publication in a wide range of academic journals – including the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and

Research (IJEBR), which is edited by CfE staff.

The CfE has developed the MSc Entrepreneurial Practice, which will be running from October, 2008. This innovative course will be run within the Innospace Graduate Business Incubator and it will help students to develop the personal and business skills needed to run a successful business start-up. Students will also have the opportunity to actively run their businesses within Innospace whilst on the course.

Ultimately, our objective is to bring together practitioners, policy-makers and academics who are interested in improving the environment for entrepreneurship and the competitiveness of smaller firms. As a consequence, we engage with a wide range of regional and national stakeholders, including key institutions such as the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE),  the British Academy of Management (BAM), The Princes Trust and the National Federation of Enterprise Agencies (NFEA)

Please explore our website to find out more about the exciting work we are doing. We look forward to hearing from you if you have any queries or want to become involved in our work.

Professor Oswald Jones
Head of Centre for Enterprise