Entrepreneurship & Design Thinking

"the entrepreneur's occupation, in itself, is the search for profitable opportunities to upset any equilibrium—which is exactly what any innovation, in the broadest sense, entails. ... By taking advantage of that opportunity, entrepreneurs provide the pressures that move the economy back toward an equilibrium condition. ... [This is] the mechanism which underlies continuous industrial evolution and revolution".
[William J. Baumol, The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship, Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 2010, p. 15]

Mentoring for Entrepreneurship Program launched

17 June 2021, Sydney:

At a dynamic lunch hosted by friends of the College, AC's Entrepreneurship Mentoring program was launched in the city before a leading group of Christian business people. While operating across a wide range of business interests, the 30 people meeting at the Langham Hotel had one thing in common - a desire to see the next generation of young Christian business people equipped with best in class knowledge, skills and values.

Attendees were asked to nominate their level of engagement: as mentors, disciplers or builders - in the College's Bootcamp, Germinator and Startup ecologies. Alex Carpenter spoke in particular about the need to build an experiential ecology which is designed to be 'flip' the traditional association between business degree content and the formative environments in which those at the beginning of their business formation learn and grow. The response was warm and positive, drawing on the extensive mentoring practices in which many senior Christian business people are already involved.

A second lunch is planned for August. If you are interested, please contact us through the contact form to the right.

Conversations on Design Thinking

Due to COVID-19, the School's planned conference on Thinking for Social Design was delayed. As we look forward to relaunching this seminal program, the AC School of Business will be streaming Design Thinking resources from some of the best in the business. The first of four of these resources is a series of short (7-10 minute) interview with Assoc. Prof. Tony Golsby-Smith, author, thinker and the founder 2nd Road, the stand-out Design Thinking consultancy in Australia.

Projects

Entrepreneurship is an applied art, performed by distruptive activists who stand in the innovation chain. Contact us about:

Local Community Business Incubators

@ The story behind Cardinal Ventures at Stanford.

research-driven Design Thinking Teams
Business as Mission
School based Entrepreneurship Hubs
in-house product development and consultancy.
ACBusiness Training Network

Tony Golsby-Smith outlines the challenges of the global business context, and the need for organizational thinking cultures which breed innovation.