Generative Entrepreneurship

Concentration Description

The Generative Entrepreneurship concentration emphasizes coursework aligned with developing the capabilities required for launching new entrepreneurial initiatives. Entrepreneurship is a major driver of social and economic transformation. Social Entrepreneurship entails social innovation in the service of positive social impact. Generative Entrepreneurship goes beyond positive social impact to include regenerating the commons and furthering collective transformative learning that impacts future generations. Instead of exploiting the commons by externalizing costs, Generative Entrepreneurship seeds and grows the commons. In doing so, Generative Entrepreneurs combine technological and social innovation with cultural innovation.

Practices, methods, ideas, and topics engaged within this concentration’s courses, by way of example, include: Regenerating the commons, transformative innovation, Theory U, caring and well-being economies.