tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84294128877898538622012-02-16T00:25:33.738-07:00Brought to you by the Entrepreneurship Program: "An entrepreneurial educational experience in an applied environment"Roar Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11665925109932192807noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8429412887789853862.post-18831612989427672982009-09-11T09:58:00.000-06:002009-09-11T10:02:13.446-06:00I thought we would kick off our BLOG with a discussion on building entrepreneurial communities.<br /><br /> A group of authors examine the concept of building entrepreneurial communities as a strategy for community and economic development. The authors define an entrepreneurial community as one in which everyone (residents, business people and politicians and esp. government officials) think and act entrepreneurially.<br /><br />Is it possible for an entire community to act in entrepreneurial fashion? The authors point to the following kinds of behaviors or activities that distinguish a community as entrepreneurial.<br /><br /><ul><li>First, entrepreneurial communities possess a critical mass of entrepreneurs actively engaged in capturing new market opportunities (the key point: capturing new market opportunities). </li><li>Second, a group of entrepreneurs constitute a distinct and recognizable community within the community and third the community is open to change and invests in conditions necessary to encourage entrepreneurs. </li></ul><p>Community can act entrepreneurially but it requires leadership from the stakeholders to create a vision and the capacity to build partnerships between the private and public sectors. Here is something to consider. </p><p>Building entrepreneurial communities is particularly relevant to Universities and their host communities in three key ways.<br /></p><ul><li>First, Universities can facilitate entrepreneurial activity via its academic programs where students and residents can hatch new ideas and help build plans for new enterprises.</li><li>Second, Universities are in unique position to lead a community as an “advocate for change" that can help transform the university and its host community. </li><li>Third, as a transformational agent the University can help can create new partnerships that can build competitive advantages and create new places of value.<br /></li></ul><p>Tell me what you think? Can UNC facilitate an entrepreneurial community? If not why? If so, how. </p><p>Building Entrepreneurial Communities: The Appropriate Role of Enterprise Development Activities written by Lichtenstein, G.A., Lyons, T.S., and Kutzhanova, N. in the Jan 1 2004 issue of the Journal of the Community Development Society. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8429412887789853862-1883161298942767298?l=roarnotes.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Roar Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11665925109932192807noreply@blogger.com34