The Music Den: A framework for entrepreneurship education in a university start-up incubator

Cormac Mcgee,Steven Ehrlick,Noah Schwartz

doi:10.1177/0950422221999222

Abstract

This account of practice details an ongoing approach to entrepreneurship education currently being implemented at a large urban university in Toronto, Canada. The Music Den is an entrepreneurship incubator focusing on the music industry that collaborates with start-up businesses, music projects, industry, local communities and postsecondary students. The incubator deploys a pedagogical model that promotes self-direction and mentorship by way of adaptable curricular programming. The program design utilizes social constructivist principles to deliver a novel entrepreneurship education curriculum.

Highlights

This account of practice details an ongoing approach to entrepreneurship education currently being implemented at a large urban university in Toronto, Canada
Start-up incubators and accelerators have proliferated on campuses globally, creating zones for entrepreneurship education
This paper describes the application of social constructivist principles to entrepreneurship education in one such start-up incubator

Summary

Introduction

This account of practice details an ongoing approach to entrepreneurship education currently being implemented at a large urban university in Toronto, Canada. The Music Den’s curriculum and programming are designed to actively work with participants and offer social opportunities for learning, growth and discovery in a variety of curricular and pedagogical contexts (Nathan and Sawyer, 2014). When applied to the design of curricula for entrepreneurship education, where learners interact with peers, teachers, educational artifacts and tools, this approach can engage processes of learning for each student, regardless of current development or varied experience.

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