We talk to Chiara Spina, Ph.D., Bocconi, and from September, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD in Singapore. Is there a way to teach entrepreneurship? Are entrepreneurs born or made? How can you make strategic decisions in your early-stage venture intelligently to maximize your chances of survival, and even better, success?
Show Notes
Chiara Spina, a Ph.D. graduate from Bocconi, is joining INSEAD in Singapore in September as Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise.
We talk about:
- How Chiara became interested in becoming an academic in entrepreneurship
- Chiara's goals at INSEAD in her first year as a professor
- Can you teach entrepreneurship? If yes, how? In terms of method, through the case study method or the traditional way?
- Is there anything scientific about decision making in the early-stage ventures? How can you improve your odds of survival and success?
- How can you experiment in a highly regulated industry like Financial Services?
- Strengths and perhaps weaknesses of the start-ups in Italy vs. the rest of the world
- Chiara's research on emerging phenomena in entrepreneurship like crowdfunding, accelerators, and hackathons
- Chiara's involvement with Hackathon Research Center
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