Launch of the Entrepreneurship Centre at The Judge Business School

HRH The Duke of York KG, is well known for his interest in entrepreneurship and promoting investment in start-up companies, and it is therefore fitting that he should become the patron of the new Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School. Lucy Malby from eg technology, who mentors and lectures at JBS, was delighted to be invited to the opening of the centre yesterday attended by HRH The Duke of York KG. Guests included notable business angels, investors and entrepreneurs as well as sponsors mentors and guest lecturers who have given their funding, time and experience to the JBS and the programmes like the Accelerate Programme. HRH spoke about the importance of the UK’s entrepreneurs and the JBS’s role in promoting inventors and educating for the future. He recognised that Cambridge is “investing in people” and that the UK’s inventors should be equipped with strategies to enable their inventions to reach the market. Addressing risk within development, HRH made the suggestion that “risk” might be better viewed as “uncertainty” and it is of course entirely true that in development we use the word “risk” to cover a number of areas that are challenging within development, be they technical or commercial. Furthermore he went on to suggest to the inventors that there is a very real probability that the first incarnation of their invention will not be the one that finally makes it market, after all “no plan outlasts first contact with the enemy”. JBS provided perfect hospitality for the opening of the centre whose programmes include the uniquely offered Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship. The centre combines several of the school’s initiatives, including the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning and Accelerate Cambridge. The goal for the centre is to increase the impact of the school in actively helping start-ups to become investment-ready and building management skills to enable growth, understand development and address scale-up. Programmes facilitate the nurture of new ventures and enables students to exploit the widespread commercial resource that is available to them in the form of mentors and industry experts. There is no doubt that the location of the Centre amongst the knowledge network of innovation that is Cambridge, and of which we are a part, will contribute to its success.

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