Archives for June 2010

I'm still working hard here on an idea formation rubric for students in the arts to consider.  As I said in an earlier entry, the whole concept of invention and creation of new enterprises have been anathemas within collegiate arts curricula.  Finding a bridge between these two worlds is of critical importance. Here I present a four stage process that I believe, … [Read more...] about Arts Entrepreneurship — Four Stages of Idea Development

At Eastman, when we were building the Institute for Music Leadership's capacity in music entrepreneurship, we created a prize to encourage idea formation, the New Venture Challenge (http://www.esm.rochester.edu/iml/entrepreneurship/newventurechallenge.php).  In the first round we received only one idea that could be described as innovative and addressing a need or … [Read more...] about Arts Entrepreneurship — The Idea Formation Conundrum