Many New Teaching Tools/ Methods for Teaching Entrepreneuership at REE

An Ateneo Graduate School of Business Advantage

Was I glad that I was sent to this REE conference (Roundtable:  Entrepreneurship Education sponsored by Stanford University Venture Technology Program held in Shangrila Hotel. Bangkok.  Thank you Dean Albert of  AGSB.  Teachers need to be taught new things, especially entrep teachers, since entrepreneurship is about having new things.

Teaching entrepreneurship with Strawberries and Kitchen

Yesterday, we talked about the role of Design in Entrepreneurship.  Dr. Peter Kelly made us do a kitchen work, prepared dishes:  salty and sweet based on materials he presented on each table centerd on strawberries. This was under time pressure. Time pressure and lack of resources are part of the entrepreneur's environment.

  This was a follow up on the idea of Tina Sellig, Executive Director of SVTP, that entrepreneurship is an extreme sport:  she made us do a prototype of new id, using colored paper, foil, rubber bands, scissors and scissors.  I did not realize that new idea, ideation, prototyping could be stressful under a time pressure

Effectuation, Conversation Mapping and FMB

Today, February 2, 20l2, I learned:

l.  Entrepreneurship Effectuation by Saras Sarasvathy of  Virgiinia Darden Graduate School of Business;

2.  Conversation Mapping a Problem Definition Tool by John Stayton, Director of Green MBA program and Venture Greenhouse ,Dominican University.

3.  Imagination Projects:  Megacities by Alistair Fee, Professor of Marketing and Innovation, Queesn's University Belfast, Ireland and Dr. Peter Russo, Director and Chairman of the Executive Board of Strascheg Institute for Innovation and Entreprerneurship, European Business School.

4. FMB - Family Managed Business of S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research located in Mumbai India.

These are quite new ideas and change the way we think about teaching entrepreneurship.  These will definitely improve the way we teach entrepreneurship.  The lecturers/facilitators are high powered and knowledgeable experts in their field.  I will discuss each one of them on separate posts each