“Teaching entrepreneurship students to become knowledge-agents for innovation”

“Drucker (1985) has postulated that entrepreneurship is the ´practice of innovation`. As such, he has outlined that it is knowledge-based, and that like any other practice (such as medicine or engineering) it can be learned. He wrote that we cannot develop a theory of innovation. But and that it is sufficient to say when, where, and how to look for innovation opportunities. As a consequence of the lack of a theoretical base for innovation, Drucker (and most other authors) simply ignore how entrepreneurs ´practice innovation` and how this practice can be learned; and have concentrated instead on how to systematically look for innovation opportunities. The constant demand by entrepreneurship students for information about how to learn the ´practice of innovation` forced me (Degen 1989, 2009) to develop some rudimentary approaches to learning the practice. This paper builds on these approaches, and tries to shed some additional light on the way entrepreneurs learn the practice of innovation in such a way that they become ´knowledge agents for innovation`. This paper also explores how this practice can be taught to entrepreneurship students.”

Ronald Jean Degen (International School of Management Paris)

Date: 2010-05-26
Keywords: entrepreneurs as innovators, practice of innovation, knowledge-agents for innovation, creative process, teaching entrepreneurship
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pil:wpaper:64&r=edu

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