1st Edition

Educating Entrepreneurs Innovative Models and New Perspectives

By Dafna Kariv Copyright 2020
    274 Pages
    by Routledge

    274 Pages
    by Routledge

    As entrepreneurship programs proliferate—from classes in higher education to incubators, accelerators, open innovation platforms, and innovation factories—our understanding of the advantages and challenges of different modes of learning becomes increasingly obscured. In Educating Entrepreneurs, Kariv provides an impressively broad and thorough overview of the field of entrepreneurship education, along with practical tools for students to be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the different options that exist, as well as for these programs’ developers and managing teams to be able to plan and manage such processes.

    Examining these programs, which are found both within and outside of academia, along with insights into their challenges and opportunities, should help students grasp the entrepreneurship education field, its goals, target audience, and ecosystem involvement. Kariv supplements this comprehensive evaluation with case studies and examples that tie the theory to practical applications. Students can read about contemporary ventures, such as Y Combinators, Techstars, and SOSA, giving them concrete examples to relate to. Interviews with program stakeholders around the world complete the view, with an exploration of the cultural and country-based dynamics related to programs developed in specific countries.

    Being both thorough and informative, this book will serve students and faculty of entrepreneurship courses, as well as practitioners looking to understand their entrepreneurship education options.

    List of Case Studies

    List of Tables

    List of Figures

    Acknowledgments

    Preface

    Introduction

    Chapter 1 – A contextual overview of entrepreneurship education programs

    Education through an entrepreneurial and contextual framework

    At-a-glance

    Ecosystem

    An international outlook

    Innovation

    Social and economic stimuli

    Content and trends

    The whole-person pedagogy

    Summary

    Takeaways

    For educators and teaching developers

    For EE participants

    Case Study 1 – Innovation and education: the Startup Grind worldwide community

    Questions on the case study

    Reflective questions

    References

     

    Chapter 2 – What does education entail for entrepreneurs?

    The complexity of teaching entrepreneurship

    Entrepreneurship education (EE)

    Entrepreneurship Learning (EL)

    At-a-glance

    Entrepreneurship teaching (ET)

    At-a-glance

    Teaching entrepreneurially

    Entrepreneurship as a career choice

    Summary

    Takeaways

    For researchers

    For educators and teaching developers

    For EE participants

    Case Study 2 – An entrepreneurial look into EE, the case of art-preneurs

    Questions on the case study

    Reflective questions

    References

    Chapter 3 – The what, why and how of entrepreneurial education

    Modernizing the prevailing approach

    Reciprocal relations between exceptions and the mainstream

    The What

    The Why

    The How

    Summary

    Takeaways

    For educators and teaching developers

    For EE participants

    Case Study 3 – NOVUS, the academic accelerator

    Questions on the case study

    Reflective questions

    References

    Chapter 4 – There is no ‘one size fits all’: new concepts in educating entrepreneurs 1

    The entrepreneurial learning cycles

    The blended-value approach to learning

    Content-based building

    Multidisciplinary approach

    Capacity building

    Multifaceted approach

    At-a-glance

    The personalized approach

    New entrepreneurial capabilities

    Accumulation of personal skills

    New educational forms

    Group work

    Routinizing unconventional processes

    Gamification

    Co-creation

    Summary

    Takeaways

    For educators and teaching developers

    For EE participants

    Case Study 4 – Venture building: a new blended-value type of education to assist

    entrepreneurs

    Questions on the case study

    Reflective questions

    References

    Chapter 5 – The entrepreneur’s perspective

    Why do entrepreneurs enroll in entrepreneurship programs?

    At-a-glance: Startupbootcamp – the startups’ view

    Psychological perspectives in EE: the meeting point of psychology–entrepreneurship–

    education

    A process-driven view

    Teamwork

    An outcome outlook

    The individual and the stakeholders

    Summary

    Takeaways

    For EE participants

    For stakeholder groups

    Case Study 5 – "Living in a nursing home to get closer to my customers": insights from the Y Combinator accelerator experience

    Questions on the case study

    Reflective questions

    References

    Chapter 6 – The sharing economy and shared entrepreneurial spaces nexus

    The sharing economy in the entrepreneurial context

    Digital content

    The role of experts

    Shared spaces

    Crowdfunding

    Summary

    Takeaways

    For educators and teaching developers

    For EE participants

    Case Study 6 – The nexus of a co-working space: diversity and multisectoriality, the

    Canadian experience of entrePrism, Montreal, Canada

    Questions on the case study

    Reflective questions

    References

    Chapter 7 – The new breed of programs and academia's role

    ‘Entrepreneurship can be taught!’

    Gamification

    Practice, Internship

    Virtual, digitalized learning (Figure 18)

    Virtual reality (VR) technology

    Digitalized learning

    Virtual hackathons, incubators and accelerators

    Synchronous learning

    Summary

    Takeaways

    For educators and teaching developers

    For EE participants

    Case Study 7 – INNOVATING, accelerator program in a technological academic

    institution

    Questions on the case study

    Reflective questions

    References

    Chapter 8 – Portraying the enabling platforms: incubators

    The landscape of incubators

    Internal resources

    External resources

    Incubators: models and approaches

    An evolutionary overview

    The journey

    The institutionalizing perspective

    At-a-glance

    At-a-glance

    Summary

    Takeaways

    For educators and teaching developers:

    For EE participants:

    Case Study 8 – From a musical journey to 2018 incubator of the year: the case of Neotec HUB, Kolkata, India

    Questions on the case study

    Reflective questions

    References

    Chapter 9 – The rise of the acceleration model

    Models and trends

    Networks

    Accelerator activities

    Accelerator business models

    Financial models

    From the startup viewpoint

    Processes, practices and approaches

    The process

    New approaches for acceleration programs

    Scaleup accelerators

    Corporate accelerators

    Institutional accelerators

    Summary

    Takeaways

    For educators and teaching developers

    For EE participants

    For stakeholders

    Case Study 9 – Techstars

    Questions on the case study

    Reflective questions

    References

    Chapter 10 – The evolution of innovative enabling platforms

    Open innovation platforms (OIPs)

    Individuals’ personalized platforms

    Innovation factory

    Venture builders

    Startup factory

    Impact hubs

    Startup studios

    Venture labs, co-labs

    Boot camps

    At-a-glance: Startupbootcamp

    Summary

    Takeaways

    For educators and teaching developers

    For EE participants

    Case Study 10 – SOSA NYC: a disruptive concept of an OIP

    Questions on the case study

    Reflective questions

    References

    Chapter 11 – The role of the environment in fostering entrepreneurship

    The reciprocal impact of the ecosystem on entrepreneurship

    How is value created in an ecosystem?

    Venture capital and investing companies

    Banks embedded in the entrepreneurial offerings

    Public sector participation

    Private sector outreach

    The international perspective on entrepreneurship support

    Entrepreneurial cities and communities

    Summary

    Takeaways

    For the ecosystem’s players

    For EE participants

    Case Study 11 – A one-stop shop for innovation: J.P.Morgan's In–Residence startup

    program

    Questions on the case study

    Reflective questions

    References

    Chapter 12 – Evaluation, implications and future avenues

    Evaluation of EE and enabling systems

    The value of the outcome

    Refining the focus

    Reference and benchmark

    Value creation

    The beholder’s view

    Evaluation of the educational process

    Summary

    Beyond the here and now

    Sharing and mapping

    Summary

    Takeaways

    General

    Case Study 12 – Accelerating startups for the Chinese market: Beijing, China

    Questions on the case study

    Reflective questions

    References

    Index

    Biography

    Dafna Kariv is Vice President for Global Initiatives at the College of Management (COLLMAN), Israel; the Chair of Novus Entrepreneurship Center, and Co-Chair of ACTO, Academic Center for Impact Investing and Entrepreneurship. She is also Academic Manager of the MBA/MS collaboration at Baruch College, USA. Kariv is the author of many research publications, focusing on entrepreneurship, education, and gender. She is a recipient of several European Commission prize funds; involved in academic boards; affiliate professor at HEC, Montreal; and the ‘German–Israeli Startup-Exchange Program’ ambassador.

    "This is a comprehensive textbook that fills a gap in the literature of entrepreneurship. It covers a rich curriculum and reviews diverse methods for teaching, learning and experiencing entrepreneurship, blended with case studies, illustrations, and many other innovative elements and ideas for enriching the learning process of entrepreneurship in both theory and in practice." —Oren Kaplan, College of Management Academic Studies, Israel

    "Dafna Kariv has done it again, this time by presenting entrepreneurship education in a global, multi-faceted way that is easily accessible to everyone." —Louis Jacques Filion, HEC Montréal, Canada