College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2021 38 Prof Natanya Meyer obtained a Y2-rating in 2021 and Prof Thea Tselepis obtained a C3-rating. POLICY AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES A highlight on national level was a creativity workshop funded by SARChI: EE for aspiring student-preneurs at a winter school in July. The keynote speaker on this day was Prof Marc Ventreska from Oxford University who reframed entrepreneurs as system builders. Prof Nieuwenhuizen contributed to two Communities of Practice as part of the Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE): Entrepreneurship Research and the Entrepreneurial University Community of Practice (CoP). Prof Meyer was appointed as the National Chair for the Community of Practice (CoP) for Entrepreneurship Research as part of the Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) initiative and represents the Chair in this regard. Her first project was to launch a national call for research on Women Entrepreneurship and a special edition in the Journal of Contemporary Management will be published in this regard. Prof Tselepis joined the CoP of Learning and Teaching of the Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) initiative and took part in the yearly initiatives to represent the Chair and reported on the yearly Lekgotla on the interdisciplinary possibilities that design thinking offers entrepreneurship education. Prof Natanya Meyer with members of EDHE at the yearly Lekgotla RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Research projects on inclusive entrepreneurship continued with publications on female entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and projects running on township entrepreneurship. Research on best practice on innovative teaching and learning on entrepreneurship education for interdisciplinary fields were continued and a textbook project was aligned accordingly. A project on entrepreneurship in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths is part of this large endeavour under the leadership of Prof Nieuwenhuizen. Projects that compare the entrepreneurial conditions framework on national and international level. These projects explore and correlate factors that play a role in small and medium businesses and explore and unpack eco-systems of change for the future in terms of entrepreneurship and the role of technology. Prof Thea Tselepis at the yearly Lekgotla presenting a best practice model on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Entrepreneurship
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