Thank you!
We have now lived through our first Entrepreneurial Learning Forum, which has mainly focused on Venture Creation Programs, and we are positively overwelmed and overjoyed. The past two days have given us at Chalmers...
Overwhelmed by Entrepreneurial Learning Forum
Wow, what a fantastic group of people that came from all over the world to Gothenburg to discuss venture creation programs at our forum focusing on the entrepreneurial learning that occurs at these unique...
Keynote-ing on conference in Mikkeli, Finland
A couple of weeks ago I was in Mikkeli, Finland, to talk about how to build entrepreneurial ecosystems through action-based education. It was the yearly conference for the SPACE-EU network, a quite large network...
Entrepreneurial Learning Forum 2012 approaching
We are now in the final stage of planning the inaugural Entrepreneurial Learning Forum, and we are very excited indeed! 75% of the programs we have invited are actually coming to Gothenburg in Sweden...
First asian venture creation program discovered
This week I have investigated a potential venture creation program in Singapore, and it indeed seems that they let the students start real ventures as formal part of the program. They even use business...
Learning by feeling – how entrepreneurs learn?
I am now starting my Big Dig into emotion based (entrepreneurial) learning and teaching. Psychologists often say that human mind consists of three main aspects - thoughts, actions and feelings. Experiential educators often emphasize...
Searching for the constructed entrepreneur – do you know one?
There is an old debate on whether entrepreneurship can be taught. Scholars have dealt with this extensively, and some are convinced that it can indeed be taught. But still the discussion keeps popping up...
Semantic issues with entrepreneurship and why MBAs still define our world
I often experience that the word 'entrepreneurship' makes people lose interest of what I am talking about, at least when talking to people outside the 'entrepreneurship religious community'. There are words that work much...
The playful entrepreneur: Homo Ludens as a lens for understanding her better
It is not only Stuart Brown that emphasizes playfulness as an important aspect of humanity (read my related post here). There is an ongoing discussion in Sweden around using the notion of play as...
Dr Brown says play is a powerful catalyst for learning at any age
Dr Stuart Brown is an expert on the meaning of play for humans, stating that nothing lights up the brain like play. He says that play is a powerful catalyst for learning at any...