Centre for Enterprise Development and Research (CEDAR)

CEDAR delivers ground breaking academic programmes, cutting edge research and highly innovative growth orientated management training programmes aimed at dynamic entrepreneurial businesses.

CEDAR achieves this by bringing together a unique mix of leading academics from the field, expert practitioner teachers and world class entrepreneurs.

Mission and Objectives

The mission of the Centre for Enterprise Development and Research (CEDAR) is to set the benchmark for University Enterprise Centres by blending theory and practice in a meaningful way that allows everyone engaging with CEDAR to achieve their potential.

We will do this by capitalising on the strengths and successes of the remarkable CEDAR team comprising expert academics, highly successful practitioners and world class entrepreneurs to achieve the following key objectives:

For our students

To develop and deliver a suite of highly innovative academic programmes and initiatives bringing together theory and practice in the area of enterprise and entrepreneurial management

For the Lord Ashcroft International Business School

To make a major contribution to the research and development activities undertaken by the Institute of International Management Practice

For Anglia Ruskin University

To embed enterprise and entrepreneurial management across all Faculties for the benefit of both students and staff

For entrepreneurial businesses

To develop a portfolio of clearly focused training and consulting programmes to help young entrepreneurial businesses within the Cambridge region to achieve their aspirations, whatever those aspirations may be

For research bodies and policy makers

To undertake world class research and consulting activities to inform current thinking and to help shape the policy agenda

Anglia Ruskin University