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What else might you have missed? … More insights from the Stanford REE Series, with notes from the second round of parallel speakers. Have a browse through, and you can access the full article for whichever topics interest you. Want to highlight points, or take a different angle? Feel free to add your thoughts below!

Teaching Furniture Design – Anselm Fraser

Guest blogged by Jill Robertson

Don’t commute, build a business and work from home in a job that’s varied and you enjoy. Above all, ‘make business fun and differentiate yourself from the crowd’ – this is Anselm’s philosophy in teaching and in life. Well, he certainly ‘walks the talk’ as no-one could have failed to notice his odd copper and blue shoes coupled with a rather unique set of braces. Delightfully describing himself as a ‘busy fool who hasn’t the time to stop and think’, I think he’s rather harsh on himself. [Full story on Anselm’s talk]

Social Media and Sustainable Entrepreneurship – Dr. Geoffrey Archer

Guest blogged by Geoff Gregson

Geoff began by explaining how he engages on-line business students on the topic of entrepreneurship. He identifies the importance of starting with a particular theory of adult education when developing on-line courses and suggests the need to: 1) develop and introduce to students the learning objectives; 2) deliver the content; and 3)… [Full story on Geoffrey’s talk]

Outreach in Entrepreneurship Education – Lorenz Hartung

Guest blogged by Kirsty Macgregor

What I liked about this break out session with Lorenz was that it felt like he very thoroughly unpeeled an onion – starting with the outside layer of the socio-economic context in Germany, then moving inward to the organizational level and finally digging deeper and deeper into the structuring of the course, sharing some of the main models and methodologies used in educating and sensitizing the entrepreneurs. [Full story on Lorenz’s talk] [Slides from the talk too!]

The Designing Change Project: Lessons in Design Leadership from Activist Entrepreneurs – Dr. Sheila Danko

Guest blogged by Diwakar Thakore

…though entrepreneurship is one of the most powerful institutions on earth, a transformational force that shapes and benefits society through innovation and wealth creation, the entrepreneur often fails to appreciate its role as a social change agent. When design, leadership and entrepreneurship come together… [Full story on Sheila’s talk]

Building a University Incubation Program – Dr. Thomas O’Neal

Dr Thomas O’Neal (Director for Research & Commercialization, University of Central Florida) discussed his experiences with the incubation programme at University of Florida, which he founded over a decade ago and has since led. The UCF programme was born out of a need to help people “change hats”–from the academic to the commercial. [Full story on Thomas’s talk]