Is it possible to teach someone to be an entrepreneur? Is innovation something that can be assessed and taught in a classroom? Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship answers these and other questions by focusing on a teaching experiment in Singapore at Nanyang Technological University, wherein classes of English-speaking Singaporeans and Mandarin-speaking students from the People's Republic of China were subjected to an 'entrepreneurial eco-system'. Extending from the west coast of the USA to Singapore and Shanghai, this programme subjects students to a wide range of activities, including a four-month business simulation game where teams of students select their favourite inventions and pitch them to real venture capitalists with the inventors present. Drawing on the lessons learned from this highly successful experiment, the book argues that not only is it possible to describe the innovative process, we can also teach it, measure it, evaluate it and model it.

有没有可能教某人成为企业家？创新是可以在课堂上评估和教授的东西吗？“教学创新与创业”通过专注于新加坡南洋理工大学的一项教学实验，回答了这些问题和其他问题。在该实验中，来自中华人民共和国的讲英语的新加坡人和讲普通话的学生都受到“创业生态系统”的约束。该课程从美国西海岸延伸到新加坡和上海，让学生参加各种各样的活动，包括为期四个月的商业模拟游戏，由学生团队选择他们最喜欢的发明，并在发明家在场的情况下向真正的风险投资家推介。根据从这一非常成功的实验中吸取的经验教训，本书认为，不仅可以描述创新过程，我们还可以对其进行教学、测量、评估和建模。