ENTREPRENEURSHIP INSTITUTE At King's Entrepreneurship Institute, it is our mission to support entrepreneurial mindsets. Our vision is to offer support to everyone at King’s, so that they can make entrepreneurship part of their DNA. We do this by supporting start-ups to be abundant, scaling, diverse, employing and robust. Potentially even more important, King’s will produce people who have entrepreneurial skills. It doesn’t matter what future career you have in mind; entrepreneurial skills will be useful and relevant. We are audience-led, and our programmes are driven by the needs of our community. We believe in collaboration and collaborate with student societies, faculties, other universities and enterprise organisations.
Our work is divided into three areas, which follow the journey of an entrepreneur:
Engagement These activities introduce entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills. You could read our Start! magazine, attend a talk with inspirational speakers, or go to one of our idea feedback sessions.
Skills Our theory is that entrepreneurial skills are relevant for everyone, so we’ve developed the 7 Skills of an Entrepreneurial Mindset. These are: compel, disrupt, think lean, validate, be resilient, build teams and get it done. We run workshops, competitions, awards and events that all aim to build these skills.
Accelerate If you have a start-up idea, you could win a space on the King’s20 Accelerator – a year-long programme offering work space, expert knowledge, leadership development and investment to help grow your business.
In November 2018, King's was named Outstanding Entrepreneurial University at THE Awards 2018 – the 'Oscars' of Higher Education.
