Leadership for Improved Academic Enterprise

This paper is a contribution to the debate on how to improve the leadership, governance and management of Outreach in British Universities. It addresses the development of best practice with respect to ’Reaching-out’ to business, industry, civil and voluntary services and the community, or, to use an umbrella term, Academic Enterprise. The paper draws on the reflections of 67 university leaders and academic entrepreneurs, from interviews undertaken between 2009 and 2011.