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
By entreVersity entreVersity writes: Talkwalker & Social Intelligence Lab just published “The State of Social Intelligence”. Social Intelligence (SI) is the ability to successfully build relationships and navigate social environments (Golman, 2007). Design Thinking requires SI: subjective reasoning, imagination, negotiation, questioning, empathy, storytelling, design. Forget market research. SI is the 21st century Continue Reading
I explore the mental side of design entrepreneurship by looking at designerly mindsets, the designerly sense of human perception, and finally that special kind of designerly intelligence that only entrepreneurs seem to have.
We can look at design entrepreneurship through a variety of lenses, including history, mindsets, perception, problems, cognition/reasoning, and tools and practices.
Plymouth State University is a regional comprehensive university implementing a novel learning model known as ‘Integrated Clusters Pedagogy’ with the goal of becoming an Entrepreneurial University by breaking down silos between disciplines.
Howard Frederick writes: What is the definition of Design? Design Thinking is a slippery concept. As a noun, design has two meanings: either a scheming plan, aim, intention, goal, or purpose; or a concept, drawing, shape, sketch, or blueprint – even the entire finished product. As a verb, it also Continue Reading
entreVersity writes: This article gives a quick and graphic introduction to empathy mapping. Design thinking is the opposite of the manager’s data-driven analysis because empathy means a focus on the human angle. Managers pay little attention to how to use customer co-creation and feedback to turn their new ideas into Continue Reading
Howard Frederick writes: In my teaching I have always sought ways to make my students more ‘enterprising’, in the personality mind-set sense. This means from Art to Zoology, every student can create an (ad)venture, be it social, environmental, business, or whatever. They move from engaged to empowered. They become problem-solvers. Continue Reading
Howard Frederick writes: If design thinking is so human-centred, why not start with the most important thing: your life. Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us that we would like to live. Between the two stands resistance. This is where suicide prevention Continue Reading
What is your personal entrepreneurial ecosystem? Just as an ecosystem in the physical environment is a balanced, interdependent quasi-stable community of organisms living together, so its industrial analogue is the business ecosystem, which is a ‘balanced, quasi-stable collection of interdependent firms belonging to the same economy’. We can refer to Continue Reading
Sir Peter Jackson After a family friend gave the Jacksons a Super 8 cine-camera with Peter in mind, he began making short films with his friends. When he was 16 years old, Jackson dropped out of school and worked as a photo-engraver for a newspaper. Living at home with his Continue Reading
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