Educating Entrepreneurs Innovative Models and New Perspectives

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

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.