Entrepreneurial Creativity: MSc Student Blogs
March 23, 2021
One of the most popular modules on the MSc Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management at HGI is Entrepreneurial Creativity, run by Dr Chris Carter. The module is designed for budding entrepreneurs to understand, experience and explore the business planning process while learning how to use different theories and creative techniques to solve problems and generate new …
Ingenuity Lab Announces Spring Events Programme – Get Involved!
March 10, 2021
It’s now been a whole year since the pandemic changed the way we live: last March, we closed the doors of the Ingenuity Lab, not knowing when we would return. Like everyone, we’ve had to adapt how we operate, and since then we have strived to maintain our usual level of support for our budding …
International Women’s Day – Dr Lorna Treanor
March 8, 2021
International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate women’s achievements and to highlight the progress yet to be made in terms of equality, diversity and inclusion. At the Haydn Green Institute, our research considers these issues in relation to both entrepreneurship and innovation. Dr Lorna Treanor’s work with the Women’s Enterprise Policy Group has previously …
Building-up an ecosystem for organic agriculture in China
February 4, 2021
In the latest of his GCRF Research blogs, Dr Bin Wu writes about his recent project with Yibing Wang, Research Director at the YouChange Foundation, about the GF Tea Company in China. Responding to the increasing need for healthy food, in recent years there is a new trend of reverse capital flow from the urban to rural areas of China to develop organic agriculture. A challenge facing urban investors is in mobilising small farmers’ participation and changing the latter’s attitudes and production styles to meet new standards. It is largely dependent upon whether mutual trust and collaborative …
Build back better and Build back differently – Prof. Simon Mosey
January 25, 2021
As we return to work after the holidays, an age-old debate is being revisited in online meetings across the world. One side of the debate can be summarised by the catchy alliteration of ‘build back better’ – we define this as incremental innovation, carefully and painstakingly improving on what we have done previously. The other …
Social innovation for community development and environmental protection in natural reserve parks of China
January 7, 2021
Dr Bin Wu has published a new case study on the natural reserve parks of China. The report, authored alongside Xiaomei Liu, looks at social innovation for community development and environmental protection at the Yunhe Centre in Ganzi. Accounting for nearly 15% of its national territory area, China’s 2,750 nature reserve parks (NRPs) play a …
Exploration of challenge-oriented research and social impact in rural China: GCRF pilot project event report – Dr Bin Wu
December 8, 2020
A challenge facing the developing world is helping 500 million small farmers to better adapt and integrate into external markets for sustainable livelihoods. Given nearly half of the world’s small farmers live in China, the Chinese government has made poverty alleviation one of its aims over the past decade. As part of this, the University of Nottingham Global Challenge Research Fund (UoN-GCRF) was awarded a pilot project – Cooperative ecosystem to empower small farmers in China to address the challenge through case studies in …
What’s in a name? Black History Month at NUBS
November 9, 2020
To celebrate Black History Month, Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) has run a Widening Participation and Civic Engagement initiative since 2012, bringing primary and secondary school going children from black communities to University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus for a half-day program. The event runs creative thinking and teamwork challenge for Y2-Y6, career sessions for Y7-Y13, …
Connecting small farmers to big markets
November 3, 2020
What is the opportunity of E-commerce for cooperative development in China’s poor areas? HGI’s Dr Bin Wu, with Lei Luo and Xinhong Fu In the context of sustainable rural development in the developing world, the emergence of e-commerce seems to offer opportunities to empower small farmers, – and the rural poor in particular – by …
Entrepreneur to Employer? – Dr David Achtzehn and Dr Robert Wapshott
October 29, 2020
New research project seeks entrepreneurs to tell their stories Entrepreneurs and their ventures are vital contributors to economies around the world. A big part of this contribution is in providing significant numbers of jobs. Governments, business support providers and academics know quite a bit about effective management practices in new and small enterprises and how …
