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The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...entrepreneurship and art. Professional coaching companies, for example, regularly recommend that CEOs structure their presentations in a storytelling format. Meanwhile, Snow, (who will be paying tribute to Bruner’s work in a memorial lecture a year after his death) has used her research combining linguistics and psychology to revolutionise the way we understand...
How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom
History & The Arts

How the ZX Spectrum and ZX81 shaped Frank Sidebottom

...entrepreneurship – although he was eventually forced to sell Sinclair Research to Amstrad’s Alan Sugar in 1986, after a disastrous flirtation with the C5 electric vehicle. But a different kind of cultural entrepreneur was behind the micro boom, too. The “bedroom coder” of the 8-bit era usually worked alone. Their programs – lines of code recorded onto cassette...
Why are public companies vanishing in America?
Money & Business

Why are public companies vanishing in America?

...for entrepreneurship are not as large. And those firms that are born are more likely to lack ambition, as they aim to be acquired rather than conquer the world. This article, originally published by the LSE Business Review under a CC-BY-NC licence, is based on the authors’ paper Is the US Public Corporation in Trouble?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2017...
30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’
Money & Business

30 years of SME research highlights impact of the ‘digital revolution’

...entrepreneurship. The Open University Business School is actively developing new approaches to digital engagement that will continue to promote the core aims of the Quarterly Survey while also expanding its reach to a wider audience. For a copy of the full report, a freely-accessible archive of previous surveys dating back to 1990, and additional background information on...
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...entrepreneurship to understand the strategy, process and operations of enterprises at different stages of their life cycle. The course also discusses the impact of innovation and entrepreneurship on society, both at a conceptual and a practical level, including ethics and sustainability, and the economic and social benefits to you and the economy. It provides you with...
Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...entrepreneurship. These practices developed out of earlier Black and Latinx traditions, for instance Mambo dancing, playing the dozens and participation in the Nation of Islam/Nation of Gods and Earths (Five Percenters). The emergence of hip hop in the South Bronx is inextricably linked to the socioeconomic disenfranchisement and cultural abandonment that took place in...
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...Entrepreneurship Journal, 16(3), pp. 602–632. Available at: DOI: 10.1002/sej.1400. Drucker, P. F. (2002) ‘The Discipline of Innovation’, Harvard Business Review. Available at: https://hbr.org/2002/08/the-discipline-of-innovation (Accessed: 10 October 2023). Fact.MR (2021) Agricultural Sprayers Market. Available at:
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...entrepreneurship, which is called Entrepreneurship from Ideas to Reality, so that’s an OpenLearn one. And that’s quite a good place to start because it provides helpful information about how to generate ideas and then filter them. So filter out the ideas that aren’t really going to work, how to evaluate them, as well as information and tips and how you can actually...