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CRITERIA

Institutional Environment
a) How has the university transformed its culture to provide environments for supporting student enterprise and graduate entrepreneurship?
b) How is institutional leadership for driving enterprise and entrepreneurship throughout the institution demonstrated?
Student Engagement
a) How are the students and graduates applying entrepreneurial behaviours and mindsets learnt from the institutions entrepreneurship offerings?
b) What responses from students and graduates indicate an enhanced positive attitude towards enterprise and entrepreneurship as a career/life choice?
Innovative and Entrepreneurial Staff
a) How have staff demonstrated innovation and growth in their approach to the design and delivery of the institution’s enterprise and entrepreneurship offerings?
b) How are staff rewarded and incentives for developing excellence in practice?
Entrepreneurial Impact
a) How have the institution’s efforts affected the nature of entrepreneurial outcomes for staff, students and graduates?
b) What step-change has been achieved in the delivery of regional and national entrepreneurship goals?
c) How has the institution captured and demonstrated good practice and effectiveness?
d) In what ways has the institution’s experiences influenced policy or practice elsewhere?

Entries must be submitted online only
Entrants should identify their principal achievement between 1 July 2007 - 12 June 2008
They should summarise in no more than 500 words what they were trying to achieve, how they set about achieving it and how and if their goals were met.
Shortlisted candidates will be given the opportunity to explain why they deserve this prize to an editorial fact-finding team, which will visit their institution on behalf of the judges