Creativity and entrepreneurship : changing currents in education and public life Lynn Book and David Phillips
Material type: TextPublisher: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xxv, 176 p. : illContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857937193 (hbk.); 0857937197 (hbk.); 0857937200 (ebook); 9780857937209 (ebook)Subject(s): Creative ability in business | Business and education | Entrepreneurship | Education, Higher | Creative ability in business | Business and education | Education, Higher | Entrepreneurship | Kreativität | Hochschule | Entrepreneurship | Enseignement commercial | Créativité dans les affaires | Entrepreneurs (économie politique)DDC classification: 370.113 LOC classification: HD53 | .B66 2013Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Main Campus General Collection | General collection | HD53 .B66 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | JWW | 20704 | |
Books | School of Business General Collection | General collection | HD53 .B66 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | LC | 20691 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Reimagining Higher Education: Creative Experiments in Teaching and Learning: 1. Creativity in the liberal arts / Lynn Book -- 2. Academic intellectual entrepreneurs / Liora Bresler -- 3. Natural history meets personal history / Heide La Moreaux -- 4. Social entrepreneurship as change agent in the academy / David P. Phillips -- Part II. Disciplinary Immigrants: Strategies in Creative Process and Practice: 5. Worldplay as creative practice and educational strategy / Michele Root-Bernstein -- 6. Sharing creativity thorugh the mirror neuron system / Glenna Batson -- 7. How to develop an entrepreneur / Carolyn D. Roark, Kevin Daum and Mary Abrahams -- 8. Success and failure on innovative group projects / Beth Altringer -- 9. Interdisciplinarity, critical inquiry and the art/science interface / Andrew S. Yang -- Part III. Public Engagement and the Duty of Imagination: 10. Teaching interdisciplinarity, creativity and innovation in business communication for a global marketplace / Marilyn S. Sarow and Bonnye E. Stuart -- 11. Overcoming obstacles to creativity in geographically fragmented environments / Dwayne W. Godwin et al. -- 12. Creative citizenry in the age of information and communication technologies / Musetta Darkee -- 13. The empathy imperative / Lyndon Rego and Philipp Essl -- 14. Training the next generation of social entrepreneurs / Scott Sherman.
While creativity and entrepreneurship may appear to be unlikely allies, they are increasingly intersecting to produce economic and social value in new and exciting ways. This groundbreaking volume examines how creativity and entrepreneurship can be used in conjunction to foster positive change and innovation, particularly in areas such as higher education and sustainable global development.
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