"Nottingham...as a college intern, ate lunch by the pond of the General Motors Technical Center, envisioning a corporate life for himself–until one of the company’s top designers disabused him. “He said, ‘John, this is the greatest R&D center in …
Creativity and Innovation: Coming to a University Near You
"Learning to Think Outside the Box: Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline" These efforts are happening all over nation. Even at BYU there are some very promising efforts already taking place such as at the Ballard Center for Social and …
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Student Inspired Businesses Emerging from Brigham Young University
Because of my work at Brigham Young University serving as an associate director at the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, teaching the History of Creativity courses (Tech 201 and Tech 202), and advising the student-led BYU …
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Unfair Entrepreneurship
Peter Skalla posted this blog entry "Unfair Entrepreneurship" on Nov. 9, 2012 at CFOWise. Loved the following statement "I think of discovery as: Identifying and validating through significant real world product contact with real world customers …
When Tests Fail
In this Style Weekly article "When tests fail: Why our public education system needs to rethink high-stakes standardized testing" Tom Shields reviews why high stakes standardized assessments are killing education and creativity. The future of …
Stanford alumni create nearly $3 trillion in economic impact
Study shows Stanford alumni create nearly $3 trillion in economic impact each year. Wow, incredible. BYU should do a study like this because as of October 2012 BYU’s Rollin's Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology was ranked #3 in the nation …
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