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Book SynopsisWhile creativity and entrepreneurship may appear to be unlikely allies, they are increasingly intersecting to produce economic and social value in new and exciting ways.
Trade ReviewIn recent years, we've seen a proliferation of "support tools" for thinking, decision-making, learning, creativity, collaboration, and performance. Creativity and Entrepreneurship launches discussions toward a much-needed synthesis. Wake Forest University's implementation of entrepreneurship theory and action beyond and despite disciplinary borders provides a richly networked context to foment the discussions. The provocative essays in this collection will cast a new a set of tools to make us sing and help us thrive. --Carol Strohecker, UNC School of the Arts, Winston-Salem State University and the Center for for Design Innovation
This is a timely book that establishes the imperative for advancing creativity and entrepreneurship in the 21st century, not just for economic development, but more importantly, for social and moral growth. The book demonstrates the transformative possibilities of embedding creative practice and interdisciplinary exploration in our schools, businesses, and communities. But, the authors also acknowledge the institutional challenges and constraints that often stand in the way of creative entrepreneurs. With a clarion call for better research and more sophisticated theories, Creativity and Entrepreneurship suggests we might be able to make radical changes in some of our most crucial public arenas - education, medicine, politics and more. --Steven J. Tepper, Vanderbilt University
Creativity and Entrepreneurship speaks to an experiment in which we are all today participating - in academia, in research, in commercial enterprise and in culture. Moving beyond traditional borders, sometimes because we must and other times simply because we can, we have the chance to learn, to discover, and occasionally to reinvent the world. We have not quite created a language for all of this, a perfectly rational way of articulating what it means to think and act and collaborate beyond borders, and that may be worth a little celebration. Certainly it makes this book that Lynn Book and David Phillips have brought to us, fresh, original, and absolutely worth reading. --David Edwards, Harvard University
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Lynn Book and David P. Phillips 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 Heidi LaMoreaux 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 through the Mirror Neuron System Glenna Batson 7. How to Make 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, Walter Wiggins, Satoru Hayasaka, Paul Laurienti and Jennifer Stapleton-Kotloski 12. Creative Citizenry in the Age of Information and Communication Technologies Musetta Durkee 13. The Empathy Imperative Lyndon Rego and Philipp Essl 14. Training the Next Generation of Social Entrepreneurs Scott Sherman Index
