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Teaching entrepreneurship students to become knowledge-agents for innovation

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  • Ronald Jean Degen

    (International School of Management Paris)

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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.

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  • Ronald Jean Degen, 2010. "Teaching entrepreneurship students to become knowledge-agents for innovation," Working Papers 64, globADVANTAGE, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.
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    1. Ronald Jean Degen, 2009. "Open entrepreneurship centers in Brazil: To promote sustainable development and poverty reduction," Working Papers 50, globADVANTAGE, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.
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    1. Ronald Jean Degen, 2011. "Brain-Based Learning: The Neurological Findings About the Human Brain that Every Teacher Should Know to be Effective," Working Papers 77, globADVANTAGE, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.
    2. Ronald Jean Degen, 2011. "Review of the current knowledge of brain-/mind-based learning to present the optimum climate for, and the guided experience approach to teaching," Working Papers 73, globADVANTAGE, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.

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      Keywords

      entrepreneurs as innovators; practice of innovation; knowledge-agents for innovation; creative process; teaching entrepreneurship;
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      JEL classification:

      • M0 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - General
      • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration

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