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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 receive help from other users enter the mind of a design entrepreneur.

entreVersity Prof Frederick

This is a wonderful course about how to build a ‘makerspace’ for young design entrepreneurs. It’s all about making pretotypes (pretend Read the rest

@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! If you know of any PSU business, social, or environmental ventures that need exposure through this Pitch Contest, please let them know.

Bringing together New Hampshire’s early-stage growth companies, regional investors, and tech influencers.

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 skills in @PlymouthState ‘s new TIDE program: Transformative Innovation & Design Entrepreneurship. Ask better questions. Communicate like a human. Creativity driven by empathy. “No wonder design thinking is already one of the most in-demand job skills, even described by Microsoft as a key skill of the future,” says Darren Menabney of @GLOBIS_Insights #empathy #CriticalThinking #Robotics #designthinking

Skills currency—the idea that our skills must always be up to date—is a necessity for business professionals.

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. They help students find their own personal entrepreneurship ecosystem. Can you apply design thinking to the ‘wicked problem’ of designing your own life? Yes, you can. After all, design thinking starts with re-framing how you view yourself in the world.

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 median per-project return on investment of 229%, with three-quarters of projects doubling their investment or more. Examined at an organizational level, a mature design thinking practice can achieve a return on investment ROI between 71% and 107%, based on a consistent series of inputs and outputs.

The model examines design thinking’s financial impact.

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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 different formative and summative approaches to assessment. They all are concerned about design thinking skills transference

But do these techniques transfer to other disciplines and other areas of student learning–like mathematics? Does DT transfer to other parts of school, to museum learning, and to civil learning?

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CNN recently called Amazon “the most valuable company on the planet”. A big part of the goliath’s success comes down to design thinking and founder Jeff Bezos’s insistence on an empty chair. Image credit: Mein Deal on Unsplash. Bezos’s legendary empty chair is present in every meeting. It represents the customer. Whatever Amazon says or does must always be to its customers’ benefit. From an aesthetic point of view, Amazon’s website is neither simple nor beautiful – two things we expect of good design. Instead, it focuses on the simplicity of experience, guided by customer empathy. It’s phenomenal to […]

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