Centre for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development
Recherche partenariat
Vision: To have a significant impact on the entrepreneurial eco system of the Institute of Technology, Tralee and Region at a local, national and international level.
Mission: To enable a transformative and sustainable impact on the growth of the region through research, knowledge transfer, consultancy and global networks.
Ethos : The Centre for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (CEED) located in the Tom Crean Business Incubation Centre, plays a key role in fostering and developing the entrepreneurial mindset as part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the Institute of Technology ; We practice and promote a strategic policy of seamless integration and real time engagement between business and social communities, academics and students offering strategic support and intervention with their business ideas and knowledge ; We aim to become an international model of best practice which researches and cultivates the entrepreneurial mind-set through our philosophy of collaboration, inclusion and innovation with the wider business and academic communities.
We have a particular focus on research into entrepreneurial learning, incubation and new venture creation and sustainability. It brings together academics, spinout enterprises, student entrepreneurs, start-up businesses and researchers for the study and practice of innovation, entrepreneurship and enterprise. The CEED’s research agenda spans across all departments within the Institute in order to stimulate an entrepreneurial spirit amongst both staff and students.
Collaboration with the other 4 research centres at the Institute, provides us with the unique opportunity of positioning ourselves as a centre with a cutting edge entrepreneurial insight and approach in all of our activities. In working to achieve its aims, the following shared values guide the centre’s behaviour and decision-making:
Engagement: with the economic and social life of our localities, regionally, nationally and globally at an applied and basic research level.
Participation: by staff, researchers and students, in our communal and intellectual life, and our decision-making processes; recognising our mutual obligations.
Collaboration: being an executive partner, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally; being responsive as well as proactive; delivering what we say we will do.