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<\/a><\/p>\nThe agreement will enhance work towards ambitions laid out in the Edinburgh and South East Scotland Regional Innovation Action Plan, the Scottish Government\u2019s National Innovation Strategy and its Entrepreneurial Campus Blueprint, by strengthening entrepreneurial skills and networks across Scotland.<\/p>\n
There will also be increased collaboration around knowledge exchange and innovation projects, which aim to bring academic expertise to businesses and organisations that could benefit from it.<\/p>\n
This new agreement follows the recent expansion of ENU\u2019s enterprise hub Bright Red Triangle (BRT), to offer specialist support to Queen Margaret University and Edinburgh College students and alumni. Since its formation in 2005, BRT has supported more than 1,000 start-ups and freelancers from the ENU community from its Start Up Studio in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
Some of the early collaborative work between the academic institutions include entrepreneurial support for students as well as regional upskilling and innovation to support SME and public sector bodies.<\/p>\n
Further, the partnership is already focusing on delivering against the Entrepreneurial Campus Blueprint, as well as piloting a Knowledge Exchange Concordant across the partner institutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are delighted to commit to this new partnership between our institutions \u2013 building on our shared enterprise services by developing an integrated innovation pathway to support the region\u2019s companies and public sector agencies,\u201d professor Gary Hutchison, assistant principle at Edinburgh Napier University said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEdinburgh Napier University has a strong track record of supporting entrepreneurs to take their innovative ideas to the next level.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis collaboration will build on the expertise of all three institutions, with an overall aim of contributing to Scotland\u2019s economic development, while benefiting our students, communities and industry partners.\u201d<\/p>\n
Professor Richard Butt, Deputy Principal of Queen Margaret University, said: \u201cWe are delighted to be part of this exciting partnership which will elevate the role of skills development as a pathway to innovation \u2013 whether that be through support for student, graduate and staff enterprise or research and knowledge exchange collaborations across our HE and FE colleagues, local businesses and organisations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new partnership also allows us to focus on delivering impact in community wealth building, to support the generation, circulation and retention of wealth in our local economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to working with our Edinburgh Napier University and Edinburgh College colleagues to enhance our collaborative approaches and improve our economic impact locally, regionally and nationally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recommended reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Mike Jeffrey, Vice Principal Corporate Development at Edinburgh College said: \u201cThis new partnership presents an exciting opportunity for Edinburgh College to strengthen our existing support for entrepreneurship and innovation across our student body, alumni network, and wider industry connections.<\/p>\n \u201cIn today\u2019s fast-paced economy, it is essential to equip students with entrepreneurial capabilities alongside technical and vocational expertise. At Edinburgh College, we work with a broad network of organisations to ensure our students are not only prepared to excel in their chosen professions but are also empowered to become the innovators who will shape the future.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough collaborating with our university partners to share knowledge, resource and expertise, we look forward to further embedding a culture of knowledge exchange throughout our college community.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new effort to support innovation and enterprise across the south-east of Scotland has been announced by Edinburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,12059,1102,152175,84665,152176,4884,152177,152178,3276,95347,712,16,15,12060],"class_list":{"0":"post-452743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-colleges","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-edinburgh-college","12":"tag-edinburgh-napier-university","13":"tag-educaiton","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-innovation-week","16":"tag-napier","17":"tag-partnerships","18":"tag-queen-margaret-university","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-universities"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115270504345434544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}