Educating Entrepreneurship through Design

The early stage of new venture creation is highly undetermined, is high in uncertainty and requires action to progress. These characteristics overlap with the definition of what makes a problematic situation a design problem. In order to improve education for students to deal with this type of problem, this chapter builds on the paradigm of ...

Entrepreneurship eduction through design: Exploring different design perspectives to understand and educate the business proposition development process in new high-tech ventures

This thesis takes the perspective that ‘a design approach’ might help to better understand and educate the business proposition development in new high-tech ventures. This has been observed at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, where design students (without an entrepreneurial education) start...

The art of designing a new technology venture

Every company, successful or not, starts with one bright idea in an entrepreneurial mind. Through actions of the entrepreneur – let’s call these actions design - this initial idea transforms into a firm that did not exist before. Because the Delft University of Technology wants to improve its support to technology-based entrepreneurs, the aim of...