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In this article we introduce a novel entrepreneurial model, the "Faculty Cooperative", an eco-system for creating and managing academic entrepreneurial initiatives. The goal of this model is to promote academic entrepreneurism, by providing a guiding concept and tools that overcome the lack of alignment between individual academic attributes and faculty efforts in driving academic spin-out companies. Through an empirical inquiry based on an academic spin-out company in a UK university context, we have explored the key activities, actors, organisational processes and outcomes related to the formation and development stages of the academic entrepreneurship process. The empirical evidence reveals that the key principles embodied by the "Faculty Cooperative Model" namely, openness, freedom and collective shareholding, are likely to promote the entrepreneurial culture within a university context. The paper argues for the importance of developing entrepreneurial culture in conventional research focused universities, which not only improves the traditional values of teaching and research, but also enhances the dynamic capabilities of universities in a global marketplace. It is suggested that the entrepreneurial ideal is not contradictory to the conventional university missions, rather it is complementary.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Credits -- Part I Education: Effective Approaches in Learning and Teaching Creativity and Innovation -- CSF Dream Academy: Using Fiction, Cardboard and Simple Electrical Circuits as Educational Tools to Lift Disadvantaged Children Out of the Poverty Trap -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Science Fiction Prototyping -- 3 Dream México -- 3.1 Methodology -- 4 Preliminary Results -- 4.1 Feedback and Perception of the Participants -- Perception of the Workshop -- Learning -- Enjoyment -- Motivation and Engagement -- 4.2 Discussion of Results -- 5 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Using a Creative Science Approach for Teaching Englishas a Foreign Language to Postgraduate Students -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Methodology Proposed -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Creating Content for Educational Testing Using a WorkflowThat Supports Automatic Item Generation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Emerging Testing Technology of Item Generation -- 3 How Can Item Generation Promote Organizational Innovation -- 3.1 Stage 1: Create Stems, Elements, and Options -- 3.2 Stage 2: Build Item Model in IGOR -- 3.3 Stage 3: Conduct Item and Model Quality Review -- 3.4 Stage 4: Add Themes and Expand Item Models -- 3.5 Stage 5: Generate All Items and Export to Bank -- 4 Results -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Alternative Learning Experiences: An Innovative Project Stimulating Creative Faculty of Humanities Students -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Research Objectives -- 2 Literature Review -- 2.1 Active Learning -- 2.2 Twenty-First Century Skills -- 2.3 Graduate Job Market in Asia and Bangladesh -- 2.4 Wagner's Seven Survival Skills -- 2.5 Task-Based Language Teaching -- 3 Research Design and Methodology -- 3.1 This Study and Its Implication -- 4 Summary of Findings -- 4.1 Impact of Findings on My Teaching.

Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction to the Technological Singularity -- 1.1 Why the "Singularity" Is Important -- 1.2 Superintelligence, Superpowers -- 1.3 Danger, Danger! -- 1.4 Uncertainties and Safety -- References -- Risks of, and Responses to, the Journey to the Singularity -- 2 Risks of the Journey to the Singularity -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Catastrophic AGI Risk -- 2.2.1 Most Tasks Will Be Automated -- 2.2.2 AGIs Might Harm Humans -- 2.2.3 AGIs May Become Powerful Quickly -- 2.2.3.1 Hardware Overhang -- 2.2.3.2 Speed Explosion -- 2.2.3.3 Intelligence Explosion -- References -- 3 Responses to the Journey to the Singularity -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Post-Superintelligence Responses -- 3.3 Societal Proposals -- 3.3.1 Do Nothing -- 3.3.1.1 AI Is Too Distant to Be Worth Our Attention -- 3.3.1.2 Little Risk, no Action Needed -- 3.3.1.3 Let Them Kill Us -- 3.3.1.4 "Do Nothing" Proposals-Our View -- 3.3.2 Integrate with Society -- 3.3.2.1 Legal and Economic Controls -- 3.3.2.2 Foster Positive Values -- 3.3.2.3 "Integrate with Society" Proposals-Our View -- 3.3.3 Regulate Research -- 3.3.3.1 Review Boards -- 3.3.3.2 Encourage Research into Safe AGI -- 3.3.3.3 Differential Technological Progress -- 3.3.3.4 International Mass Surveillance -- 3.3.3.5 "Regulate Research" Proposals-Our View -- 3.3.4 Enhance Human Capabilities -- 3.3.4.1 Would We Remain Human? -- 3.3.4.2 Would Evolutionary Pressures Change Us? -- 3.3.4.3 Would Uploading Help? -- 3.3.4.4 "Enhance Human Capabilities" Proposals-Our View -- 3.3.5 Relinquish Technology -- 3.3.5.1 Outlaw AGI -- 3.3.5.2 Restrict Hardware -- 3.3.5.3 "Relinquish Technology" Proposals-Our View -- 3.4 External AGI Constraints -- 3.4.1 AGI Confinement -- 3.4.1.1 Safe Questions -- 3.4.1.2 Virtual Worlds -- 3.4.1.3 Resetting the AGI -- 3.4.1.4 Checks and Balances