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
Speech commemorating the launch of the exhibition ‘Alfred Deakin: The Man’ at the Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library in Geelong, Victoria, August 10, 2011. This is part of the author’s focus on entrepreneurship, climate change, sustainability, and the biosphere. Introduction This article commemorates the 2011 launch of the exhibition ‘Alfred Continue Reading
A Rising TIDE Lifts All Boats: The Making of an American Entrepreneurial University Inspired by the Model of the Monterrey Institute of Technology Resumen Este artículo se trata de la educación emprendedora. Este estudio de caso describe lo que sucedió cuando se implementó la pedagogía del emprendimiento del Tecnológico de 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
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
By entreVersity Creativity isn’t something that only a few are born with; everyone has their own creative spark. entreVersity writes: Where I work, the PSU Board of Advisors identified the success factors that student need in their undergraduate curriculum. You’ll notice that this august group did not mention creativity as the most Continue Reading
We can look at design entrepreneurship through a variety of lenses, including history, mindsets, perception, problems, cognition/reasoning, and tools and practices.
Everything you see has been designed – sometimes, as Steve Jobs once said, ‘by people that were no smarter than you’. If you look up from this screen, almost everything you see is the product of the force of human intelligence to generate a solution for human needs. If you Continue Reading
entreVersity writes: How many of you designers are aware of the first design thinker? The 1960s was heralded as the ‘design science decade’ by the radical technologist Buckminster Fuller, who called for a ‘design science revolution’ based on science, technology, and rationalism to overcome the human and environmental problems that Continue Reading
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
It’s just like famous Harvard entrepreneurship professor Howard Stevenson once said, ‘Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled’.[i] Our job is to enable our customers to make heroes of themselves — Paul Cave Using creative thought and determination, Paul Cave, founder and chairman of BridgeClimb, Continue Reading
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