Nurturing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
26 Jan - 9 Feb 2027
3 days
Do you want to build a stronger and more effective entrepreneurial ecosystem for your university? Then join us for this Entrepreneurship course that will enable your university to be a launchpad for new ventures and a landing pad for international enterprises.
Did you know? Participating in this course will earn you 1.5 Continuing Education Units and a UIIN Badge!
This training course is freely accessible for our Accelerator & Changemaker members
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We just wanted to make sure that before you register and pay, you are aware that this and many other learning opportunities are included and/or discounted in a UIIN community membership :)
Benefits of joining UIIN
- Networking
Expand your network in the online community and at our many events. - Learning
Develop your professional skills with our seminars, masterclasses and training courses. - Actionable insights
Discover our case studies, reports, podcasts & more. - Tailored & strategic guidance
Join roundtable discussions, get tailored strategy sessions and receive a diagnostic report.
Who should attend
- University Leaders (vice presidents, deans): Aiming to drive community impact and connections through entrepreneurship.
- Directors of Centres, Institutes, and Incubators: Looking to enhance support for academic spin-outs and student startups by engaging with the wider ecosystem.
- Knowledge Transfer Professionals: Focused on fostering student and academic entrepreneurship through internal and external partnerships.
- Regional Development Managers, Ecosystem Builders, and City Council Officers: Responsible for advancing regional innovation ecosystems and entrepreneurial development.
Learning outcomes
This course will help you to
- Map your regional entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Develop relationships and programs involving relevant non-university stakeholders
- Design and implement a role for universities in building entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Connect and develop relationships with your regional entrepreneurial ecosystem
- Build and structure knowledge-intensive places and spaces
- Identify key regional partners and programs to support your entrepreneurship activities
- Capture the value of and communicate the entrepreneurial impact
- Understand your entrepreneurship ecosystem
Course elements
Week 1
26 Jan
Introduction to the course
Onboarding
Identify your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem | Workshop
Gain a comprehensive understanding of your entrepreneurship ecosystem, including mapping it to identify potential partnerships and relationships, applying global best practices for developing relationships with regional partners, and employing methods and tactics to value and communicate entrepreneurial impact.
Week 2
2 Feb
Building an Ecosystem for Entrepreneurship | Workshop
Learn to connect and cultivate relationships within your regional entrepreneurial ecosystem, identify external champions crucial for ecosystem growth, apply global best practices for regional partnerships, and grasp methods and tactics for building and structuring knowledge-intensive areas.
How to Nurture Entrepreneurial Ecosystems | Practice Exchange
In this interactive session, participants will swap experiences and practical approaches to building and sustaining entrepreneurial ecosystems on—and around—their campuses. The conversation will centre on what works (and what doesn’t) when connecting students, researchers, founders, investors, incubators, corporates, and city/regional actors.
Week 3
9 Feb
Mapping your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem | Knowledge-to-Practice
Gain insights into mapping entrepreneurial ecosystems involving universities, develop relationships and programs with relevant non-university stakeholders, and enhance personal motivation and capability in building a successful ecosystem.
Closing
Wrap-up
Facilitators & Experts
Todd has consulted to the European, Australian, and Vietnamese Governments, and to multiple universities. Todd is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the IMT Business School in Paris and a visiting researcher at Imperial College (UK), Technical University of Vienna (AUT) and the University of Adelaide (AUST) in the topics of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Balzhan is Director of Research & Training at UIIN, where she leads the development and scaling of training courses and ensures that research insights are translated into practical value for our community. She holds a PhD in university–business collaboration and brings deep expertise in connecting research, practice, and innovation to strengthen collaboration between higher education and industry.
"I knew this course would give me the opportunity to get headspace and focus on how we develop an approach to this in our university. And the fact that you get to meet with other peers that are in the same space as you are, created space for me to learn from others, but also develop my own thinking. That's why I chose to do the course, and it didn't disappoint."
"The highlight of the training has been the 360 degrees holistic approach to entrepreneurship: exploring evidence-based frameworks, getting merged into other people's challenges, taking the conversation out into the local environment, sharing stories, learning how other people do things, but then also validating a lot of the work that we do."
Questions? Book a one-on-one with us.
Dr. Balzhan Orazbayeva, Manager Strategic Initiatives
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