Although startups are key to economic growth and job creation, many people-particularly students-have a negative attitude toward entrepreneurship. Fear of failure, constant uncertainty, and financial constraints combine with a lack of training in needed skills to discourage potential entrepreneurs.
In this webinar, Rajesh Nair, a visiting scholar at MIT's Tata Center, successful entrepreneur, and SDM alumnus, will describe a systems-based experiment conducted in India at small engineering colleges with no active entrepreneurship initiatives. This research addressed the following questions:
Is it possible to bring about a positive change in the average student's attitude toward entrepreneurship?
Can suitable ecosystems be created at colleges to provide nurturing environments in which entrepreneurship and innovation can flourish?
Nair will describe:
a specially designed experiential curriculum and training in innovation, fabrication, and entrepreneurship;
how students created new ventures by interacting with their local communities to validate problems for business opportunities, ideate solutions, and fabricate prototypes-in effect creating healthy entrepreneurship ecosystems within their academic institutions and surrounding communities;
how these strategies can be applied and adapted by other academic institutions; and
how students' attitudes toward entrepreneurship changed.
Негізгі бет A Systems Approach to Fostering Innovation Ecosystems within Academic and Business Communities
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