Keynote @ EC4SLT Conference, Koper, 13th 2016
Entrepreneurship for Educational Leaders
E. Michael LavioletteProf., Dr-HDR
Walking through
What is entrepreneurship ?
Why is it important ?
How can we apply it ?
Part I
What is entrepreneurship ?Latin : inter prehendere : seize with the hand to master…not to possess
French term translated in english (19th)
Entreprendre = Take in between or Engage actively something
(Undertake)
A disruptive phenomenon
Entrepreneurship is a vehicle of change, especially radical
change or innovation
« Continuous renewal of the economic structure with destruction of old elements and creation of new
elements »
(Schumpeter, 1943 : 106-7)
Creative destruction
Technology entrepreneurs
« An investment in a project that assembles and deploys specialized individuals and heterogeneous assets intricately
related to advances in scientific and technological knowledge for the purpose of creating and capturing value for a firm »
(Bailetti, 2012)
A constructive phenomenon
Entrepreneurship is a process of discovering unnoticed value
opportunities
When the entrepreneur is open to opportunities - vigilant, in situation of alterness - he discovers novel ways to exploit resources and create value
(Kirzner, 1973)
Filling gaps
Community-based entreprise
« A process in which the community acts entrepreneurially to create and operate a new enterprise embedded in its existing
social structure… Furthermore, CBEs are managed and governed to pursue the economic and social goals of a
community to yield sustainable benefits over the short and long term »
(Peredo & Chrisman, 2006).
Urban farms, Detroit, USA WIR & other local moneys
Agri-energy initiatives Réunion Island
Barefoot college and solar sisters Tilonia, India
Four Myths
Entrepreneurship is technical
Entrepreneurship is individualistic
Entrepreneurship is profit-making
Entrepreneurship is management
XXXX
social
collectivist
value creation
innovation
Part II
Why should we bother ?
Many signs that entrepreneurship is booming…around the world
Multiple vehicles of change
Why? A sense of urgency for future generations
Global Warming
« We are experiencing a current extinction rate of our species faster than or as fast than all rates of the 5 big extinctions over millions of
years »
(Barnosky et al, 2012)
Tacloban, Philippines.
Increase in inequalities50 % of the wealth of the planet was in the hands of 62 persons
(Oxfam, 2015 ; OCDE, 2016)
Rents superior than labour
Richest are heirs not entrepreneurs
FR 1 % 205 x K
UK 1 % 30 %
US 1 % 20 % of revenues
Source : Piketty, 2014
Third industrial revolution
Digital, Green & Collaborative Economy
(Rifkin, 2015 ; Volle, 2014)
Internet of objects
Energy & Ecology
Pro-consumers
Part III
How can we apply it ?Inter prehendere
Seize with the hand to master…not to possess
As educators
Prepare future generations to infer change and adjust to it
Entrepreneurship as a mindset & a set of
competences
…for creativity, innovation & survival
As leadersAlign our education system
with these ongoing major changes
Entrepreneurship as a pragmatic change in the
education
But don’t wait for change from above, it’s grassroots
School in Finland
Opening cognitions
Rethink our educational values out of the box
Forget the plans and build projects with your people
Engage them to make sense by debating to reach consensus
Citizens assemblies, Kuthambakkam, India
Being pragmatic
Mobilize the resources at hand
Reach out for resources beyond endowment
Relate & include people without segregation
Parkslope, Brooklyn, NY-US
Expressing emotions
Do not hold them as they are profoundly human
Claim passions and dislikes
Support through up’s and down’s
For higher Creativity, Connectiveness & Completeness
Be tenace, astute and grounded
Keynote@EC4SLT Conference, Koper, 13th June 2016
Thank youMost pictures were graciously borrowed
from the film DEMAIN that has profoundly moved me
http://www.demain-lefilm.com
E. Michael [email protected]