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Reimagining Inclusive Economic Futures Brief

Posted September 16, 2020 - 08:50 by Judith James

Context & background

The Reimagining Inclusive Economic Futures network will focus on four areas:

Creating an Entrepreneurship Ecosystem for enterprise start-ups and growth: embedding entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurship training within a city-region ecosystem of finance, support, space, collaborative procurement, and underpinning technology.
Visioning a new future of Work for Wellbeing: the potential for developing different spaces and ways of measuring employee contribution that is not place and time based and provide an equitable reward. Altering the reward system to focus on well-being rather than income is a step toward narrowing income disparities. This calls attention to the importance of skills retraining and up-skilling, within employment and for a career change, and forms of successful adaptation to new ways of working.
Visioning a new future of Not-Working for Wellbeing as a result of a changing economy and restrictions as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Lifelong learning enhances active citizenship, volunteering, and personal fulfillment in a different world of Not-Working.
Adjusting to an uncontrolled external environment- due to influences that may be: political, environmental, conflict, health, technology, and the development of Artificial Intelligence. Adapting to change, developing flexibility, enhancing resilience.

Judith James
Swansea University

Report for Delegates of the Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions Symposium, Swansea 2014

Posted July 2, 2014 - 07:59 by Judith James

On May 21st 2014 Swansea University hosted a Symposium entitled Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions. It was attended by forty-five invited delegates drawn from the Swansea Learning City initiative and from a number of countries engaged in developing entrepreneurial learning city regions.

Entrepreneurial Learning Cities Brief

Posted May 11, 2014 - 09:26 by Judith James

Context & background

The network title is "Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions".

“A learning city can be characterised as one in which communities attempt to learn collectively to change their own futures.”(1) Drawing on recent research on developing learning cities and on developing entrepreneurial skills and attitudes, we will develop guidelines for creating “Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions”.