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Posted by Michael under Entrepreneur Resources, Leadership

The National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs may not be well known at present, but like the Ivy League colleges of the USA it might become the nursery in which Britain’s future business leaders are raised. This national organisation aims to support university enterprise societies and student entrepreneurs so that entrepreneurship grows across the UK

As a grassroots organisation it aims to encourage university students to focus on enterprise as part of their education and development. It’s a communication hub for enterprising graduates and a contact point for exciting early-stage start-ups in the UK.

By opening communication channels, facilitating the development of new societies, providing cutting-edge national programming and supporting enterprising students and early-stage start-ups engaged with university enterprise societies, NACUE fosters an enabling entrepreneurial ecosystem to stimulate the growth university entrepreneurship.

National recognition

Real Business Magazine has heralded NACUE as a ‘Champion of Entrepreneurial Britain’ and it was also the winner of the 2009 ‘SFEDI Enterprise Champion Award’,

Run by student entrepreneurs for student entrepreneurs

Back in 2008, Victoria Lennox created the concept of NACUE and established it at a meeting with twelve university enterprise society leaders including: Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, London Business School, Oxford Brookes and Kings College London. There are many programmes and projects that intend to support innovation and entrepreneurship in the UK’s brightest young people, but most of them are not student-led and therefore have a conceptual and age distance from the students they aim to influence. NACUE intends to remain grass-roots by ensuring that students themselves have a clear role in its organisation and direction, while senior and special advisors bring a greater range of perspective and experience to the body as a whole.

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