The entrepreneurial design curriculum: Design-based learning for knowledge-based economies
Teixeira C.
2010
Design Studies
8
10.1016/j.destud.2010.03.003
The role that need to be played by undergraduate design curricula in regard to educating entrepreneurs for the future is discussed. The undergraduate design curricula needs to play a more significant role in achieving the objective, as the lack of preparation limits the role that design can play in economies driven by the research and development of innovative ideas. Undergraduates can be trained in a more effective manner by integrating design knowledge into interdisciplinary ways of thinking, giving the organizations of the future the type of professionals who need to take entrepreneurial action. Findeli has proposed a design discipline based on the practice of design as a process and a way of knowing based on processing an intervention. The undergraduate design curriculum also needs to be complemented by a liberal arts education and supported by a new distribution model to exist.
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