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OVERVIEW<\/strong>
\nThe Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Coal City University, Enugu acts as the hub for all entrepreneurship-related teaching, research, extracurricular and community activities. We are also committed to engaging with the local business community and public institutions. The Centre provides high quality services to support the university in developing confident, talented and versatile graduates. Through the Centre, the university monitors the progress of the different endeavours of its graduates, long after they have graduated, providing needed support where and when necessary.<\/div>\n

AIMS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 To drive an entrepreneurial culture within Coal City University by providing our students with a wide range of classroom and experiential learning opportunities all designed to help them develop the entrepreneurial mind-set, life skills, compassion in spotting societal needs and skills in evaluating the business opportunities around those needs and thereon build successful businesses which ultimately provide solutions to societal challenges.<\/p>\n

\u2022 To support the university community to launch and grow businesses, and help researchers to convert technology breakthroughs into commercial successes.<\/p>\n

\u2022 To provide incremental, value adding support to graduates from all our entrepreneurship programmes by monitoring and constantly evaluating the progress of their businesses, long after they have graduated.<\/p>\n

\u2022 To create the necessary atmosphere to further entrepreneurship research and provide an excellent base for constructive engagement between the triple helix of academia, industry and public institutions (both local and international) with a view to providing credible evidence for policy formulation and decision making.[\/vc_column_text]

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<\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]KEY ACTIVITIES<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Entrepreneurial courses<\/strong>
\nThe Centre offers courses in entrepreneurship specifically designed for all Coal City University undergraduate students as part of their degree programmes to facilitate skill acquisition and venture creation. We teach students how to write business plans, how investors make decisions and how to grow successful businesses based on sound management practices. Our focus is on helping students, staff and local entrepreneurs turn ideas into commercially feasible businesses in order to provide relevant solutions to critical societal challenges, generate jobs, grow our region\u2019s economy and create opportunities that retain high potential entrepreneurs, talent and intellect in our region.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Workshop and Training Services<\/strong>
\nThe Centre periodically organises customised workshops, seminars, conferences and both scheduled and impromptu training programmes that are specific to the needs of entrepreneurs within and outside the University.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Research<\/strong>
\nThe Centre conducts top class research in the broad areas of entrepreneurship education and training, EET. The research is disseminated via conference presentations organised by the Centre, and publications in its house Journal and top academic and practitioner journals. The Centre also contributes to national and global discourse on entrepreneurship development.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Advisory and Consulting Services<\/strong>
\nThe Centre provides advisory and consulting services on all aspects of new-business development. Assistance is provided for proper environmental scanning, needs assessment, needs-based opportunities identification, ideas creation, business plans development, funding sources, new businesses registration, managing competition and growing existing businesses.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Business Incubator Services<\/strong>
\nThe Centre encourages and supports hi-tech and knowledge based pre-start and early start companies with high-growth potential during the formative stages of their development. The Incubator Service includes the provision of free furnished space, including wireless internet access, access to shared meeting rooms and low priced care-giving and follow-up consulting services to the businesses of our alumni for the first five years of existence of such businesses.<\/p>\n

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