Following the first round of partner visits in summer 2019, GITA Project Lead Professor Neil Towers has travelled across Java in December to deliver a series of workshops to senior management teams, department heads, programme managers and lecturing staff on how to embed entrepreneurial capacity building into university structures and curricula. The earlier partner visits…
On December 9th, Professor Neil Towers visited the ABM Hub at STIE Malangkucecwara. The hub is one of seven new Growth Hubs that were recently established to promote university-business collaboration, graduate entrepreneurship and enterprise creation as part of the GITA project. The ABM Hub is supporting a growing number of student entrepreneurs, many of who…
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire, Stephen Marston, visited Indonesia in November 2019. His itinerary included visits to two of the recently established GITA Growth Hubs at Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) and Universitas Ahmad Dahlan (UAD) in Yogyakarta. On the first day in Yogyakarta, Mr Marston visited UII’s Growth Hub Simpul Tumbuh and…
The University of Gloucestershire School of Business and Technology has launched a workshop series under the theme “Forward Thinking” aimed at staff and students to showcase research within the School’s different subject communities. The inaugural event on the 16th October took place under the theme “Enterprise”. GITA Project Lead Professor Neil Towers gave a presentation…
The Growth Hub at the University of Gloucestershire School of Business and Technology celebrated its Annual Review event on the 19th September. Over 350 businesses using the services of the Growth Hub since its inception attended the event which was followed by an exhibition of the School’s research and international project work. Representing GITA, Project…
GITA Project Lead Professor Neil Towers and Project Manager Nadine Sulkowski travelled to Jakarta in June to participate in a public panel discussion at the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (MoRTHE). Professor Towers, responsible for leading research in the University of Gloucestershire School of Business and Technology, introduced the GITA project in a…
The 5th Consortium meeting was co-hosted jointly by Universitas Brawijaya and STIE Malangkucecwara in Malang. The main purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the progress of the implementation of the business incubator programme, following on from a two-day business incubation workshop led by the University of Innsbruck under the leadership of GITA Steering Committee…
GITA Project Lead Professor Neil Towers and Project Manager Nadine Sulkowski participated in the 3rd International Conference on Family Business and Entrepreneurship (ICFBE) in Bali, Indonesia, in April. The ICFBE brought together academics and entrepreneurs from across Indonesia and beyond. Amongst the themes explored were specific issues for family businesses, including financing and governance, cultural,…
The first Indonesian Growth Hub, headed up by GITA Consortium member Hari Haryadi, has opened at Universitas Ahmad Dahlan in Yogyakarta, just one year after the official start of the project. The Growth Hub carries the name Kantor Urusan Bisnis dan Inkubasi (KUBI), translated Office of Business Affairs and Innovation. Universitas Ahmad Dahlan is one…
Project Lead Professor Neil Towers from the University of Gloucestershire School of Business and Technology was talking to the media at the third Growing Indonesia – a Triangular Approach consortium meeting. The meeting took place on the 19th and 20th July 2018 in Yogyakarta and was jointly hosted by Universitas Islam Indonesia and Universitas Ahmad…