#3: Why teach entrepreneurship to students who are not business students? A talk with Sean Branagan (Newhouse School, Syracuse University)

ScreenME Podcast

We had the delightful opportunity to engage in a conversation with Sean Branagan, who is a serial entrepreneur and the director of the Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University's Newhouse School in New York.

For this episode, Ulrike Rohn is joined by Patience Gombe, an MA student of Screen Media Innovation at the Baltic Film, Media, and Arts School. Together, they discuss teaching entrepreneurship to students in the creative fields. Throughout the discussion, they explored the reasons behind incorporating entrepreneurship education in creative curricula and examined effective strategies for imparting entrepreneurial knowledge to aspiring creative professionals.

• Why and how should entrepreneurship be taught to film, media and creative students?
• If one is not interested in starting a business, why should they learn about entrepreneurship?
• How do different ways of teaching entrepreneurship affect one's approach to it?

Sean Branagan is a serial entrepreneur, interactive marketer, educator, investor, and evangelist for innovation and startups. He is inaugural Director of the Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School of Public Communications, Chief Instigator of Media-Nxt.org, Creator of Student Startup Madness (at SXSW), a national collegiate startup tournament, and Chairman of Scrappy Capital, LLC, a seed fund for rising tech cities. He sold a dot-com company to a public company in 1999, was founder and president of a technology marketing firm, and started other ventures. He holds board and advisory board positions with several early-stage tech companies, and serves on a number of charitable boards.
This episode is co-hosted by Patience Gombe, student in the MA study program Screen Media and Innovation

Host: Ulrike Rohn

Sound engineer: Tanel Kadalipp
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