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Aleks Subic

Aleks Subic

Vice-chancellor of Aston University

Sep 23, 2026

4:25
So what needs to change first inside that institution? So again, taking that more inwards than
4:32
outwards.
4:32
So to transform a university, especially if we even talk about traditional universities in our centuries-old high education systems, and most countries have centuries-old high education systems.
4:44
That transformation is profound because it starts and ends with people.
4:49
You transform the university by actually working with people who are actually transforming the way they think and work and building on a culture of the organization.
4:58
That's what makes it complex because entrepreneurship and innovation and creating an enterprising, innovative university It also goes hand in hand with transforming a culture of the enterprise.
5:09
And that's a more complex process than just establishing a center of entrepreneurship or an institute or even a precinct.

10 MINS LATER

15:41
But how do you know when, for example, staff resistance is simply resistant to change and when it perhaps it's signaling a real problem, or maybe how can you learn to pivot in that very delicate balance?

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