What does it take to succeed in social enterprise? All innovators are whiz kids who go to good schools and then suddenly leap to their discoveries in one brilliant stroke at an early age. Right? Not necessarily, says economist and creativity expert David Galenson in this audio lecture. He draws on research from his book Old Masters and Young Geniuses to identify another type of creative person, the late bloomer, or what he calls the "experimental innovator." Applying his insights to the social entrepreneur, he explores the differences in the processes of discovery for creative people, drawing on the lives of great artists and significant cultural change agents. Galenson speaks to an audience of social entrepeneurs over the age of 60, gathered by Civic Ventures and the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, for the 2007 Purpose Price.
David W. Galenson is a professor in the department of economics and the College at the University of Chicago, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Austin, the Ecole des Hautes Etude en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the American University of Paris.
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