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9780521760706

Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Building on the Singapore Experiment

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521760706

  • ISBN10:

    0521760704

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-12-14
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Is it possible to teach someone to be an entrepreneur? Is innovation something that can be assessed and taught in a classroom? Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship answers these and other questions by focusing on a teaching experiment in Singapore at Nanyang Technological University, wherein classes of English-speaking Singaporeans and Mandarin-speaking students from the People's Republic of China were subjected to an 'entrepreneurial eco-system'. Extending from the west coast of the USA to Singapore and Shanghai, this programme subjects students to a wide range of activities, including a four-month business simulation game where teams of students select their favourite inventions and pitch them to real venture capitalists with the inventors present. Drawing on the lessons learned from this highly successful experiment, the book argues that not only is it possible to describe the innovative process, we can also teach it, measure it, evaluate it and model it.

Table of Contents

List of gridsp. ix
List of dilemmasp. x
Acknowledgementsp. xi
Introduction: A headlong assault on the inexpressible?p. 1
Singapore's challengep. 7
The entrepreneurial ecosystem: a programme like no otherp. 22
How can innovative pedagogies be measured?p. 43
Co-defining innovative education: how the instrument was createdp. 58
The Singapore resultsp. 71
Results of the Mandarin-speaking programmep. 94
Reconciling values: a helical model of innovative processesp. 107
'It is only the Hawthorne Effect'p. 128
The programme that cannot stand stillp. 140
Innovation and the future of the universityp. 152
What are the implications of being able to teach innovation?p. 155
Is a new creative class arising?p. 179
Notesp. 197
Bibliographyp. 205
Appendicesp. 210
General indexp. 225
Index of dilemmas and reconciliationsp. 229
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