Dedicated to re-imagining education for entrepreneurs through design-based enterprising mind-sets
Dedicated to re-imagining education for entrepreneurs through design-based enterprising mind-sets
over the course of a few stories, I’ll try and cover a few of the sciences we draw upon in our art as a creative community to create engaging experiences. And in my last story I talked around how User Experience is … user story flow to capture value and Continue Reading
Innovation hubs created by corporations have grown in popularity in the past decade. But with a growing number of failed innovation hubs helping fuel the criticism they have garnered over the years, it makes one wonder if that criticism is warranted or if there’s something else causing them to fail. Continue Reading
We wanted to create a process for design thinking specifically tailored to school students. A process that simplified the design thinking model, and focused on the elements that kids could learn the most from. We wanted to emphasise the ‘what if’ aspect of innovation, and the pragmatism of solution-focused thinking. Continue Reading
A makerspace is a physical space where people gather to share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network and build a pretotype. Makerspaces provide tools and space in a community – a library, a community center, a private organization or a school. Expert advisors may be available but beginners often Continue Reading
@PlymouthState has some great venture ideas. I know because I have seen many of them in Freshman Seminar and in my Entrepreneurship classes. Finally, we are getting the attention and support that entrepreneurs crave through PSU’s university-based entrepreneurship ecosystem. @PlymouthState.Enactus student entrepreneurship club even won the President’s award this year! Continue Reading
entreVersity writes: WEF says that by 2022 AI will destroy 75m jobs while at the same time creating 133m jobs. That’s real churn!! To keep their careers safe, our students have to master three career skills that robots cannot master: critical thinking, storytelling, and design thinking. These are precisely the Continue Reading
entreVersity writes: Matt Gibson is the Director of Educational Programs at the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship. More of Gibson’s experiential entrepreneurship exercises and assessments are available here. Gibson explains Michigan’s best practice in helping students with self-discovery through entrepreneurship by sparking new ideas, learning by doing and Hands-On Entrepreneurial Experience. Continue Reading
entreVersity writes: Design Thinkers often confront a skeptical management. So Forrester created a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) model to empower design thinking practitioners with the tools and vernacular needed to quantify their efforts as well as to form a compelling business case for the practice. The synthesized results project a Continue Reading
By entreVersity entreVersity writes: The entrepreneur’s ego is involved in the desire for success. Sometimes this means she/he HATES criticism in entrepreneurship. Although many of today’s entrepreneurs believe they are living on the edge of existence, constantly stirring within them is a strong desire to succeed in spite of the odds. Therefore, Continue Reading
View source article ed.stanford.edu Design entrepreneurship teachers do not all come from the business disciplines; they can come from any discipline whose habits of mind lead them habitually to create value for others. These are the teachers who repeatedly help students solve their ‘wicked’ problems. DT teachers use new and Continue Reading
