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

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.

Music education in adolescence – A pathway to entrepreneurial identity?

“…Our study likewise contributes practical insights into ME research. While EE is of interest and benefit to music students, according to previous studies (Hietanen and Ruismäki, 2016;McGee et al, 2021;Schediwy et al, 2018), as far entrepreneurial identity is concerned, there seems to be no significant difference between running EE or not running it in specialised music schools or in schools where pupils engage extensively in ME, including musical instrument practice, improvisation or the like. This interrelationship, however, should not be taken for granted with respect to commercial knowledge and other 'hard' aspects of entrepreneurship if a school aims at developing such competencies among students.…”

“…Because representatives of creative professions generally lack intellectual property and selling skills (Haukka, 2011; Penaluna and Penaluna, 2009), they may still benefit from EE in this respect, contingent on its delivery (i.e. experiential, hands-on as opposed to merely informative) (McGee et al, 2021). Echoing prior studies, our findings simultaneously hint at treating music classrooms as entrepreneurial identity workplaces in order to support students in reflecting on different aspects of their identity (Harmeling, 2011; Lundqvist et al, 2015) and help resolve known dichotomies between the creative and commercial realms (Schediwy et al, 2018).…”

“…Similarly, entrepreneurship is often heralded as the ‘creation of something from nothing’ (Baker and Nelson, 2005: 329). What unites music and entrepreneurship is clearly new value creation, and in both cases this tends to occur through the work of teams, in which becoming entrepreneurial stems from interacting with this new value, along with the team’s diversity of role expectations (McGee et al, 2021; Lundqvist et al, 2015).…”

Entrepreneurship education-infiltrated computer-aided instruction system for college Music Majors using convolutional neural network

“…The research results showed that the values such as enthusiasm for music and the need for autonomy were not contradictory to the perceived needs of IEE related to professional work. McGee et al (2021) studied the IEE framework of Music Majors. They promoted students’ self-guidance and guidance through adaptive curriculum planning.…”

Innovation Salons – Events for dialogical knowledge transfer between civil society and higher education institutions

“…If the dialogical nature of knowledge transfer is taken seriously, for instance, third missions’ activities need to identify transfer channels and practices that allow for creating a change within HEIs as well. So far, despite seemingly opening the mission towards a broader understanding of the impact on the broader society, many efforts still focus on collaborations between universities and economic actors and on supporting spin-offs and start-up entrepreneurs (Erikson et al, 2015; Breznitz et al, 2018; Billström, 2020; McGee et al, 2021). Actively engaging with civil society still plays a subordinate role (Berghaeuser and Hoelscher, 2020).…”