A diary article in Science&Diplomacy, a sister journal of Science about lessons learning on delivering education in planets´s most extreme setting.
“Being an entrepreneurship educator in North Korea between 2013 and 2017 was an extremely eye-opening experience. One of my main insights from those years is that feasible ideas for entrepreneurship can exist even in an institutional void. The very existence of such ideas and views that hope for a better future may help stabilize conflict-sensitive regions like the Korean peninsula. My experiences taught me that carefully localized entrepreneurship education can help entrepreneurs see themselves as changemakers.
Research based on these educational projects has improved our collective understanding of the effect of entrepreneurship training on elite students,2 how ideas for new ventures can emerge in extreme situations, and how to tackle grand challenges collaboratively. Particularly interesting is the process of adapting to local needs in designing educational programs and how humor and conversations about love can enable and support knowledge transfer in sensitive situations…”
Lessons Learned from Frontier Entrepreneurship Education in North Korea
