Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Building on the Singapore Experiment

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ID19940396
AuthorsCharles Hampden-Turner, Charles Hampden‐turner (University of Cambridge, corresponding author)
Year2009
Publication date2009-10-29
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueTeaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139194556
OpenAlexW222874874
Open LibraryOL25550360M
ISBN9781139194556
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

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

Economics · Entrepreneurship · Linguistics · Management · Mandarin Chinese · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · asia · Ausbildung · Business & Economics · Education · Innovation · Singapore · Singapur · Study and teaching · Technological innovations · Artificial Intelligence

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