Disseminating the entrepreneurial approach
Knowledge Transfer
Cambridge & China: Entrepreneurship to Chinese Delegation of Vice Chancellors
The Chinese delegation were interested in the innovative delivery of enterprise and entrepreneurial programmes. The talk identified successful programmes in China, and shared my philosophy on teaching entrepreneurship alongside with the enterprise delivery at the university. The relationship was established to explore further support Chinese institutions.
Brazil: Understanding the entrepreneurial mindset – From incubation to acceleration
The workshop was run for entrepreneurs, investors, academics and mentors. Along with other workshops and a delivery team made up of entrepreneurs and academics, this project was a good example of the complexities of bringing different perspectives by building a shared approach to providing support.
Uruguay: Linking Entrepreneurs & Investors
This project involved working with the National Research and Innovation Agency in Uruguay and entrepreneurs to build collaboration across the entrepreneurial support sector. Workshops including “From Incubator to Accelerator’, ‘Creativity and Innovation’ and ‘Entrepreneurial Cognition’
Cambridge: Entrepreneurship and Research
Talks include seminars for universities, schools and businesses on ‘Be your own boss, Putting it all together in a Business plan, Start-up support and investment, Cognitive thinking and a Systems approach to building business’.
Romania: Knowledge Transfer for Entrepreneurs
As part of a team of academics and entrepreneurs the project focused on knowledge transfer in order to Establish a new School in Entrepreneurship and Management coordinated in collaboration with the Romanian Academy of Economic Studies; develop a new innovative Masters programme and create several new enterprises.
South Africa: Internationalising Businesses to the UK
Bridge International was a one-year pilot project to promote international trade between South Africa and the UK. The project was funded by Barclays ABSA (SA) through their Enterprise Development fund. Bridge International’s purpose was to launch exciting ventures with potential to grow internationally.
Lianne Taylor’s style of teaching and her emphasise in terms of evaluating facts from different perspectives made the decision making skills one of my strengths. Furthermore, her networking amazingly inspired us by our guests’ speakers and enables us to evaluate real business life.
Dr Lianne Taylor’s desire to deliver an exceptional framework and foundation towards the psychological understanding of persons and situations, covering their behaviour and personality, therefore broadening my knowledge and uncovering my skills and abilities, whilst helping me to achieve my potential with imperative advice, from herself and her guest speakers.
Lianne is undoubtedly the person that motivated me the most to keep pursuing what I believed in during my time in the UK. She was able to accurately read the essence of me as a person and was always selflessly ready to help me. She proved to be very demanding, tough and at the same time fair and empathic. She pushed me to the limit and got the best out of me. Her own determination inspired me to follow my gut feeling when necessary. I am very grateful for all the valuable time she dedicated me and I still constantly go back to our intense conversations to feel motivated when I need it.
‘Lianne Taylor’s enthusiasm for entrepreneurship and education encouraged me to become an ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ for CEDAR (Centre for Enterprise Development and Research) and it was a very rewarding experience. The important part for me apart from CEDAR being a well organised group was that I could see that we made a difference. Different countries and cultures need different approaches within communication and approach to business and education and CEDAR recognised this. Lianne and her team’s professionalism and expertise meant that all projects successfully met and exceeded the client expectations.
Lianne has played a fundamental role in the early stages of our business development, her extensive academic knowledge alongside her wealth of experience in commercial strategy makes her a unique and world class business consultant.
Lianne’s listening and empathy have contributed to delivering good projects and happy customers during our work at CEDAR.