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Ikeda, Sumiko Nishitani

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“…Ultimately, the delivery mode of EE programmes should correlate with the programme audience to maximise impact (Kamovich & Foss 2017). For instance, in their study on entrepreneurship development in Botswana, Themba and Josiah (2015) found that designing EE courses around the student profile can be as much about acknowledging their own experiences of formal education and training, as identifying individuals with entrepreneurial characteristics and supporting them. The learning activities and course content at a South African UoT should therefore reflect the local entrepreneurship environment and the common experiences and backgrounds of students.…”

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Contextual factors influencing entrepreneurship education at a South African University of Technology

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Ronnie

2021

The Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Busi

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Background: Entrepreneurship education (EE) occupies a particularly critical space in the development strategies of emerging market countries where entrepreneurs and small businesses are required to drive economic growth and job creation. In South Africa, universities of technology (UoT), which provide vocation-focussed tertiary education, are considered vital vehicles of EE.Aim: Institutions and educators are challenged by the limited research around EE content and pedagogy, particularly outside of the business school context. This study seeks to address these research gaps within the South African economic context by examining EE courses at a UoT.Setting: This study examined 14 entrepreneurship courses offered across 11 disciplines at one South African UoT.Methods: A qualitative study consisting of semi-structured interviews with 10 educators was conducted to explore how they design and deliver their EE courses.Results: The study found three contextual factors that influence the way educators design and deliver EE courses: (1) the needs of the student: the systemic nature of their experiences, (2) the quality of teaching materials: the limited relevance of the content, and (3) the background of the educators: their experience with entrepreneurship and industry.Conclusion: In examining these key contextual factors, this study highlights the challenges that locally higher education institutions face in designing the courses that are effective at promoting entrepreneurship locally. It also showcases the prominent role that educators play in solving problems, addressing challenges, and ensuring that EE contributes to a broader economic agenda by bringing their own passion, educational expertise, and practical knowledge to the classroom.

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Contextual factors influencing entrepreneurship education at a South African University of Technology

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Ronnie

2021

The Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Busi

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Artificial nervous systems – a technology to achieve biologically modeled intelligence and control for robotics

Narcross

2023

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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Migrating from machine learning and deep learning into the next wave of technology will likely require biological replication rather than biological inspiration. An approach to achieving this requires duplicating entire nervous systems, or at least parts thereof. In theory, these artificial nervous systems (ANS) could reproduce everything required for a system to be biologically intelligent even to the point of being self-aware. This would additionally entail that the resultant systems have the ability to acquire information from both their internal and external environments as well as having the ability to act within the external environment using locomotion and manipulators. Robots are a natural answer for the resultant mechanism and if supplied with an artificial nervous system, the robot might be expected to achieve biologically modelled intelligence (BMI) and control. This paper will provide an overview of the tools for creating artificial nervous systems, as well as provide a roadmap for utilizing the tools to develop robots with general-purpose learning skills and biologically modelled intelligence.

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Entrepreneurial ecosystems created by woman entrepreneurs in Botswana

Mamabolo

Lekoko

2021

South African Journal of Business Management

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore how woman entrepreneurs in a developing country context such as Botswana create their own entrepreneurial ecosystems that support their business-venturing activities.Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative research collected data via in-depth interviews from a purposive sample of 11 women who owned established enterprises in Gaborone, Botswana.Findings/results: Firstly, woman entrepreneurs in Botswana displayed entrepreneurial behaviours, skills and characteristics, an ability to overcome marginalisation and a positive attitude towards failure. Secondly, the entrepreneurial ecosystems created by women included social capital ties, human capital development, alternative funding mechanisms, access to local and international markets and inclusion of digital technology as part of the ecosystem. The woman entrepreneurs were influenced by the entrepreneurial institutional conditions in Botswana. Lastly, the findings showed the significance of changes to each component of the entrepreneurial ecosystem across the stages of the entrepreneurial journey.Practical implications: In a context of limited entrepreneurial resources, woman entrepreneurs should build their own ecosystem by leveraging the existing social networks and collaborating with local and international stakeholders. Government should design tailor-made entrepreneurial programmes and foster public and private partnerships to support the advancement of woman entrepreneurs. Lastly, ecosystem players including private institutions should collaborate to support women-owned entrepreneurial ventures.Originality/value: This study adopted an alternative view that woman entrepreneurs can be the key drivers of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. This system must be built up from the level of the women entrepreneurs to better understand their specific stance and also the context in which they operate.

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Contextual factors influencing entrepreneurship education at a South African University of Technology

Contextual factors influencing entrepreneurship education at a South African University of Technology

Artificial nervous systems – a technology to achieve biologically modeled intelligence and control for robotics

Entrepreneurial ecosystems created by woman entrepreneurs in Botswana

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