The Culture of Entrepreneurship

Radical collaboration. Social entrepreneurship.

How do we teach entrepreneurship?

It's about kids. It's about entrepreneurship.

Teach them entrepreneurship. Thank God for GrowNYC.

We want to add entrepreneurship and policy skills.

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

But they also succeed at the job of entrepreneurship.

I want to talk about social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

So mass education started with social entrepreneurship in the 19th century.

I've been a huge fan of enterprise and entrepreneurship since 1993.

And clean water, education, medicine and even looking at social entrepreneurship.

So what I'm saying is that entrepreneurship is where it's at.

And then you have to tell them the truth about entrepreneurship.

What can these differences tell us about the real causes of entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurship is experiential, it's hands on, and it's immediate and intense feedback.

It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.

Today's lecture is what have we learned in entrepreneurship for the last 40 years.

The first one is, as I mentioned, entrepreneurship was a new idea to me.

The idea is that the building blocks of the digital economy are connectivity and entrepreneurship.

In explaining the variation in levels of entrepreneurship across countries, much attention is devoted nowadays to differences in national attitudes and policies. But there are also significant differences in levels of entrepreneurship within individual countries.

These are ways of doing self organization of doing entrepreneurship that are gentle, that are egalitarian.

In 2003, I was ready to do a talk about the Skoll Foundation and social entrepreneurship.

But how about getting entrepreneurship to be ranked right up there with the rest of them as well?

Open research into all areas of life and free entrepreneurship focused on bringing something new into the world.

like energy, ecology, policy law and ethics, entrepreneurship, so that people can bring these new technologies to the world.

One is, it could have been a good exercise for you to decide whether entrepreneurship is for you or not.

Encourage entrepreneurship, double down on infrastructure, and make sure we're turning out people from our educational system with the appropriate skills.

Kiva borrowers, as I interviewed them and got to know them over the last few years, have taught me what entrepreneurship is.

In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

But today, after 60 years, because of the rise of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs have become role models, and they are contributing hugely to the society.

like a TED brings so many powerful connections, or through the World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship that my foundation does at Oxford every year.

There was a whole cast of thousands of people teaching the class, and I was asked to teach one week that focused on entrepreneurship.

This entrepreneurship, this education, this Lean LaunchPad, this Startup Weekend and Udacity is all part of a global movement that's truly impacting the world.

The real question is, how can markets be developed in rural Africa to harness the power of innovation and entrepreneurship that we know exists?

What I hope is this class gave you a small taste of what entrepreneurship feels like, and what are the things you need to do.

Sociolab Concursos is a platform for entrepreneurship and social inovation that brings together the public sector, private sector, students and the most vulnerable families in society.

And then we think that being part of an organization, bringing the democratization of entrepreneurship to a thousand cities worldwide means you're part of something bigger.

In the short term, we can stimulate job growth by encouraging entrepreneurship and by investing in infrastructure, because the robots today still aren't very good at fixing bridges.

Imagine how you feel and then imagine the difference when you might see somebody who has a story of entrepreneurship and hard work who wants to tell you about their business.

And entrepreneurship is not about your grades, and this class is about the work you do outside the building after you watch the lectures, not how much of the lectures you watch.

And she had turned it down, she said, because she was going to start her next business, an entrepreneurship consultancy that would teach business skills to men and women all around Afghanistan.

He is the owner of the firm and he was the guy who thought of this entrepreneurial activity, so he is giving this factor of production, but throws in there some entrepreneurship.

The startups are not about lectures, an entrepreneurship is not about your grades and this class, it's about the work you do outside the building after you watch the lectures not how much the lectures you watch.

And I think what we need is for designers who can be embedded in the topics that are really, really important right now and for there to be a better synergy between design and business, design and social change, design and entrepreneurship.