Stuart McLennan , Executive Chair and CEO of Circular 1 talks to us about his passion for respect for the place and the importance of relationship building. Stuart’s team have been supporting our key industries in the time of COVID19 by developing an employee Covid screening programme that they have now pivoted to proactive health programme managed from a newly established Health HUB in Barrow-in -Furness. Stuart’s common sense and pragmatic approach to achieving deep growth with regional success indicators rather than following a Unicorn individualistic success story is very much anchored in the place-based agenda. An inspiration to all current and aspiring entrepreneurs!

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Success for Circular1 Health at Britain’s Energy Coast Business Cluster Awards – Cumbria 24

Research: How Entrepreneurship Can Revitalize Local Communities (hbr.org)

Dr Joanne Larty | Lancaster University, a lecturer and researcher at Lancaster University Management School, opens our minds to the importance of place in entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurship education. Joanne offers her framework she developed in her recent article exploring a variety of dimension of place and our emotional connection to places. Joanne’s work has significantly influenced this project.

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Larty, J. (2021). Towards a framework for integrating place-based approaches in entrepreneurship education. Industry and Higher Education, 35(4), 312-324.

Ferreira, J. G. (2021). Developing place-based program objectives for a national parks environmental program through transformative research. Applied Environmental Education & Communication, 20(1), 66-76.

Cresswell, T. (2014). Place: an introduction. John Wiley & Sons.

Greenwood, D. A. (2013). 9 A Critical Theory of Place-Conscious Education. In International handbook of research on environmental education (pp. 93-100). Routledge.

 

Andy Walker,  Head of Business growth and Innovation, Lancashire County Council, talks to us about diversity of our place and the importance to recognise specific place dynamics and community needs. Andy’s role focuses on creating safe spaces for local entrepreneurs, identify funding and encourage sustainable growth and opportunities for local businesses.

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Levelling Up government agenda

Levelling Up the United Kingdom – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

 

Dr David Perez Ojeda, a lecturer and researcher at Lancaster University Institute of Art and Design, explores ways in which social entrepreneurs use design in their business and how design is connected to the entrepreneurial context.

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Perez Ojeda, D 2021, ‘Co-designing boundary objects in social entrepreneurship: The generation of negotiating artefacts in social entrepreneurship ecosystems‘, Paper presented at IASDR 2021, 5/12/21 – 9/12/21.

Pérez, D, Hands, D, McKeever, E & Whitham, R 2019, ‘Design within Social Entrepreneurship: A Framework to reveal the use of Design in interdisciplinary spaces‘, The Design Journal, vol. 22, no. Suppl. 1, pp. 229-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2019.1595861

 

Dr Ed McKeever,  a lecturer and researcher at Lancaster University Management School, offers his perspective on exploring ways in which entrepreneurs engage with place and community.

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McKeever, E, Jack, S & Anderson, A 2015, ‘Embedded entrepreneurship in the creative reconstruction of place‘, Journal of Business Venturing, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 50-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2014.07.002

Nordstrom, O, McKeever, E & Anderson, A 2020, ‘Piety and profit: the moral embeddedness of an enterprising community‘, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, vol. 32, no. 9-10, pp. 783-804. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2020.1781935