Entrepreneurship
topic
Entrepreneurship as creative input involves the specific experience of trying to bring something new into the world against the resistance of markets, institutions, indifferent customers, limited resources, and one's own inadequate initial understanding of the problem — providing the direct confrontation with reality that all creation ultimately requires, and the specific education in the gap between creative ideas and executable plans that no amount of theoretical business education replicates.
Role
Entrepreneurship is the most comprehensive practical creative education available — because the attempt to build a new thing in the world simultaneously requires the creative generation of ideas, the critical evaluation of those ideas against market and operational reality, the practical implementation of ideas in the face of resource constraints, and the iterative revision of ideas in response to the feedback that contact with the real world provides. The creator who has tried to build a business — even one that failed — has encountered the full practical complexity of bringing creative ideas into operational reality in a way that the creator who has only operated within existing organizations has not.