The Emergence of Biosphere Entrepreneurship
By Abstract This theoretical article combines entrepreneurship, economics and sustainability to build a new theory of biosphere entrepreneurship. Going beyond business and social entrepreneurship — which add value to private and community domains, respectively — biosphere entrepreneurship adds value to the biosphere and ecosystem services. The purpose of this article is Continue Reading
Born-global social entrepreneurs
Don’t think for a moment that global entrepreneurship is for the private sector only! Today, no government, company or group, working alone, can solve a major issue. They have to work together. They are called ‘born global social entrepreneurs’. Ageing population, unemployment, mental illness, cutting carbon emissions: solutions to these Continue Reading
The grandfather of geoengineering entrepreneurship: Russ George Ocean Hacker
By [See also my Climate change entrepreneurship as if the planet mattered ] Geoengineering has been much in the news lately as our Planet struggles with the Climate Crisis. Climate-change skeptics, politicians, and some environmentalists hate the idea, but one pioneering entrepreneur saw huge opportunities.[1] More than ten years ago, Russ Continue Reading
Design Thinking for Suicide Prevention
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
Entrepreneurial ecocide
For thousands of years, entrepreneurs have raped and pillaged the environment with impunity. Today we might call it entrepreneurial ecocide, namely large-scale environmentally catastrophic business activities by an entrepreneur. Ecocide is also a term for killing a species in an ecosystem to disrupt its structure and function. However, it has Continue Reading
Criminal entrepreneurs in Australia
Just as social and business entrepreneurs share many personality traits there are many of those traits that they share with criminal entrepreneurs. These people have to be excellent risk managers and information managers. They are future-oriented organisation builders. Like business entrepreneurs, they are continually working the edge or the margin. Continue Reading
Jihadist norm entrepreneurship: Ibrahim’s great idea
Warning: This article may offend sensibilities because it deals with jihadist norm entrepreneurship. Obviously, this is a fantasy teaching case to make a point. What is norm entrepreneurship? A small literature has emerged on norm entrepreneurship. Norm entrepreneurs seek to change social norms. If they are successful, they can cause Continue Reading
Top twenty positioning strategies as a social entrepreneur
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.{1] How to get from one to the other? We are all capable of reinvention’, according to Bernard Roth, author of the book The Continue Reading
Village entrepreneurship in Samoa
Women in Business Development Incorporated (WIBDI) introduced fine mat weaving as an income earning strategy for rural village women and their families. At that time the art of weaving very fine mats was almost lost. WIBDI staff ran workshops to teach the skill of weaving the fine mats to rural Continue Reading
