Community Colleges as Incubators of Innovation
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Communities and Students
- 204 pages
- English
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Community Colleges as Incubators of Innovation
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Communities and Students
About this book
While community colleges have traditionally focused on providing students with opportunities to gain credentials for employment, the increasingly important question is: Are they preparing students for the looming dynamic, disruptive, and entrepreneurial environments ahead? This book addresses the urgent need for community colleges to prioritize entrepreneurship education both to remain relevant in a changing economy and to give graduate students the flexible and interdisciplinary mindsets needed for the future of society. It argues that entrepreneurial education should be offered broadly to a wide range of students, and across all disciplines; defines the key constructs for achieving this objective; and describes how to create entrepreneurial learning environments.The expert contributors, with the support of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE), start from the premise that community colleges are uniquely positioned to lead entrepreneurial initiatives through both internally-generated curriculum design and through collaboration with the local entrepreneurial community to build bridges between the classroom to the community which in turn can offer models of implementation and constitute a network or support system for students. Community colleges can become incubators of innovation, a magnet for talent, and provide the impetus for development strategies that their communities have not begun to realize. As the chapters make clear, developing an entrepreneurial program itself requires an entrepreneurial mindset that transcends any lack of resources, requiring a spirit of imagination and resourcefulness. This book takes the reader on a journey through the steps needed to build a meaningful, relevant, and sustainable entrepreneurship program, covering program development, curriculum design, appropriate pedagogical approaches, and community engagement.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Advance praise for Community Colleges as Incubators of Innovation
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Impetus for Entrepreneurial Education
- 1 Leading with an Entrepreneurial Mindset
- 2 An Entrepreneurial Approach to Entrepreneurial Education
- 3 Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Innovate and Flourish
- 4 Entrepreneurship and Workforce Development
- 5 Invisible Opportunities: How Collaboration Supports the Growth of an Urban Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
- 6 The Ecosystem that Thrives
- 7 Creating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Rural Appalachia
- 8 Community Colleges as Entrepreneurial Catalysts
- 9 The Power of Collective Action: A Five-Year Journey
- Conclusion: Entrepreneurial Community Colleges—Sustainability and Lessons from the League
- Afterword
- Appendix: NACCE, A Retrospective
- About the Contributors
- Index
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- Backcover