Enterprise
Skills for now and in the future
To have a thriving and prosperous community, we need young people to be enterprising so they can create long term, sustainable economic and social impact.
Young people will need to be life-long learners, innovative and creative thinkers, problem solvers, able to collaborate and be good communicators. Through EDfutures the Fogarty Foundation is creating initiatives to help enable these skills and develop entrepreneurial mindsets.
We need to energise a new generation who see entrepreneurialism not as something that a few people ‘do’ but rather as a way of working and thinking that underpins something that anyone can ‘be’.
To succeed in this ever-changing world, students need to be able to think like entrepreneurs: resourceful, flexible, creative and global
Through EDfutures the Fogarty Foundation is creating initiatives to help enable these skills and develop entrepreneurial mindsets. The Foundation will initially be working with secondary and tertiary students, providing them with inspiration, training, support and networking to equip them with the means for success.
Consider taking more unconventional careers…consider entrepreneurship.
Dave Sherwood
UWA Fogarty Scholar Alumni
Dave Sherwood is CEO and co-founder of www.BibliU.com. BibliU is a London-based startup spun out of the University of Oxford Innovation Fund. The team have developed a modern eTextbooks platform that integrates fully with all library and university systems. BibliU has distribution agreements with all major academic publishers including Pearson, Wiley and McGraw. Their aim is to fill the gap in the e-reading and e-distribution Higher Education market, benefiting a range of stakeholders: students, academics, librarians, publishers and institutions.
Dave Sherwood shares his entrepreneurial experiences via video link from his office in the UK.
