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Technology & entrepeneurship

Technology & entrepeneurship are different topics but because entrepeneurs most of the time lay for their succes on new technologys they can be seen and used together. Especially when it comes to the history of technology, you will understand that lots of innovative products by later big companys are discovered by accident (as well as for scientific discoveries). That means that creative thinking and openess for new idead are essential for developing new technologies.

Some relevant aspects of technology for education (not about VET)

*Technology is the applied science of making handy things of objects of nature or derivative products of nature. Therefore it is not mystic, so new technologys can and will be copied if not forbidden quite soon in other countries. There was a time that Eastern Asian countries were (and sometimes still are) very smart in copiing technologies, although already a long time they are even innovative themselves.
* Technology can be seen as the externalisation of human force and handcraft (like ict can be seen as the externalisation of energy/brain work). In that way stages of development can be discriminated.
* Energy is the condition for usage and development of technology. Which started with the use of fire by handcraftsman, got a huge step by the use of steam in 19C, and today can be seen in lots of worries and problems between nations about the supply of energy. If a nation breaches infringes human rights, but has a strong supplier status in energy, huge discrepancies can rise between human rights advocacy of states and actual economic relations.
* People and peoples have to be creative to develop new technologies, like lots of the present gaming algorithm's are made by people out of New Zealand.
* On the other hand there is still more and more to learn by good observing from the high tech of nature, like structures of nature are used in technology (honeycomb for new airplane wings). In that way almost every country has given something to the world.
* And technology, as explained by economy & globalisation, changes the culture. When a culture receives mobile phones, people don't need to travel to talk to friends and so on.
* Technology, especially ict, can also be identified as driving forces in society. If you don't cope with that, you will place yourself outside of these driving development. Technology is the development of further possibilities for the human kind to control and moderate the future.
* This last sentence explains in part why people in ict and new technologies are in many times quite optimistic, technology as a friend gives a bright looking for the future, in contrast with people of cultural science/history, who sometimes especially see the exctinction of old good norms and practices).