Senior Lecturer, Entrepreneurship
Pathway Leader, MBA part-time

Location: Lord Ashcroft Building, 3rd floor, Cambridge

UK: 0845 196 2549
International: +44 (0)1245 493131 ext. 2549
Email: robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk

His specialist area is 'Entrepreneurship & Innovation' - this Masters level module is delivered 9 times annually and is a favourite of MBA and MA students in the UK, Berlin, Groningen, Ahmedabad and Trinidad.

Robert also teaches on the MAIB on the 'International Business Environment and Strategy' module and on the MBA module 'Business Analysis Project', a fascinating amalgam of strategy and finance. His 'SMEs in an International Context' module is popular with final year undergraduates.

Each year Robert organises enterprise activities for students:

In 2008, his team won first prize in the IBM Universities Business Challenge; in 2009 our team won through to the grand finals; in 2010, six of our teams competed in the semi-finals.

In 2006, his MBA team won first prize in the i-10 Innovators business elevator pitch competition on board the London Eye, putting three teams from Cambridge University into 2nd, 3rd and 4th place. Another MBA team arranged a Dragon's Den style presentation in which six real-life entrepreneurs were interviewed by a BBC Radio presenter.

In 2009, as a result of a student team competition in Global Entrepreneurship Week sponsored by Marshall Aerospace, one of our MA students was given a placement in this company to work on special projects for six months.

He will be recruiting support for Global Entrepreneurship Week, 15 - 21 November 2010.

He is a business advisor in the Young Enterprise scheme for young students at Hills Road VIth Form College in Cambridge.

He was a contributor to the 8th IEF International Entrepreneurship Forum at MICA the Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad in India, 17 - 18 December 2008

He is a regular guest speaker at Cambridge University's Cambridge Entrepreneurship Training Program(CETP) and at Cambridge Businesswomen's Network;

Robert is a member of the Cambridge Technopole coordinating group.

He has mentored two KTP Knowledge Transfer Partnership projects

He and Grahame Nix OBE, Chief Operating Officer of Marshall Aerospace, were the keynote speakers at the inaugural session 'Thinking Inside the Box' of the Turning Point series of enterprise talks at in 2010.

Robert originally graduated in chemistry in the 1970s and after a varied career in the agrochemical industry in development and manufacturing, he completed his MBA in 1993. He has lectured at Anglia Ruskin since that time.

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