Cambridge Judge Business School Discussions on Entrepreneurship Cambridge University

Chandran Sankaran, Founder and CEO of Zyme Solutions, told MBA students that entrepreneurship is about creating self-sustaining businesses and entities. It's about changing the status quo. In his lecture he asked if the core skills underpinning entrepreneurship were learnable and if risk-taking is a birth gift or can it be cultivated.

Rejection has to be accepted by entrepreneurs and although it is hard to handle, keep going. That's the advice from Dr Lisa Drakeman, whose high-flying bio-tech career led to four new treatments for unmet medical needs.

Launching a new series of Cambridge Leadership Seminars, Lord Stevenson of Coddenham, CEO in Residence at Cambridge Judge Business School, said he feels there are a number of issues around entrepreneurship that are incorrectly talked and thought about.

Keep your eyes and ears open, says Dinesh Dhamija, former Chairman and CEO of Ebookers.com. Nothing is too small to look at. If you can add value to a customer you have got a business. But, he warns, don’t think of every angle in a business before you launch. Launch it so that you have the first mover advantage.

Supply-side and industrial policies being employed by government, if combined with related policies, could strengthen both clusters and the eco-system and bring advantage to the whole economic zone. Dr Pitelis points to the British government's intervention taken to support the Tech City cluster as a positive example of success.

Workforce empowerment and a global outlook, the Tata way. Paul Mills, Head of Organisation Performance, Human Resources, Jaguar Land Rover explains.