Lord of the Rings innovation
By 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
Australia’s Spiritualist Water Entrepreneur . . . and Prime Minister
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
La Transferencia de México a EE.UU. de un Modelo Universitario de Educación Emprendedora
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
Why Criticism In Entrepreneurship Is Good for Creativity
By 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
Design entrepreneurship combines science, culture, and values
We can look at design entrepreneurship through a variety of lenses, including history, mindsets, perception, problems, cognition/reasoning, and tools and practices.
Social intelligence: new report
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
Why creativity is the most important soft skills
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
Design is all around you
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
Buckminster Fuller: The first author in design thinking
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
Definition of Design: A Verb or a Noun?
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
