In 1995, at a time when China was opening up to Free Enterprise, my colleague, Dr Fan Ying, and I wrote a paper entitled "Chinese Cultural Values and Entrepreneurship" (Kirby and Fan, 1995). We even won a "Best Paper" award…
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Today, as Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020 unfolds, a new ship ‘The Harmonious Entrepreneurship Society’ is launched. Its destination is clear – a planet that is in harmony, and its course is via entrepreneurship and the principles of holistic systems thinking.…
Published by Advance HE 28 October 2020 https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/identifying-and-creating-entrepreneurial-university Introduction In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to the problem of sustainability and to the role that entrepreneurship might play in its amelioration. New forms of entrepreneurship have emerged but if entrepreneurship…
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Published by Advance HE 10 February 2020 https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/identifying-and-creating-entrepreneurial-university Increasingly it has been recognised that entrepreneurial education itself will not be effective unless there is a change in the teaching paradigm and the educational institutions themselves become entrepreneurial. Not only do…
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Originally published: 30th July 2020 on Emergent Thinkers.com https://emergentthinkers.com/2020/07/30/the-mind-behind-entrepreneurial-mindset-education/ The mind behind entrepreneurial mindset education Professor David A. Kirby, Holder of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion, is one of the UK’s founding fathers of Entrepreneurship Education (EE). His interest…
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