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Entrepreneurship In Science And Engineering Correlates with Sustained Arts and Crafts Participation Cultural Economy Research Team: Robert Root‐Bernstein, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology Rex LaMore, Ph.D., Director Center for Community and Economic Development James Lawton, MFA, Professor and Studio Artist, College of Arts & Letters John Schweitzer, Ph.D., Professor, Center for Community and Economic Development Michele Root‐Bernstein, Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty, College of Arts and Letters Eileen Roraback, Ph.D., College of Arts and Letters Amber Peruski, MSU Honors College Megan VanDyke , MSU Honors College Laleah Fernandez, Doctoral student, College of Communication Arts & Sciences Acknowledgements: Michigan State University’s Honors College The MSU Institute for Public Policy and Social Research MSU College of Arts and Letters HARP Grant
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Entrepreneurship In Science And Engineering Correlates with Sustained Arts and Crafts
ParticipationCultural Economy Research Team:
Robert Root‐Bernstein, Ph.D., Professor of PhysiologyRex LaMore, Ph.D., Director Center for Community and Economic Development
James Lawton, MFA, Professor and Studio Artist, College of Arts & LettersJohn Schweitzer, Ph.D., Professor, Center for Community and Economic Development
Michele Root‐Bernstein, Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty, College of Arts and LettersEileen Roraback, Ph.D., College of Arts and Letters
Amber Peruski, MSU Honors CollegeMegan VanDyke , MSU Honors College
Laleah Fernandez, Doctoral student, College of Communication Arts & Sciences
Acknowledgements:Michigan State University’s Honors College
The MSU Institute for Public Policy and Social ResearchMSU College of Arts and Letters HARP Grant
Simplified Richard Florida Model
ARTS HIGH TECH
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Hypothesis:Are STEM people
attracted to arts‐rich
communities because STEM people are themselves artists?
ARTS & CRAFTS
HIGH TECH
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
FORMAL EDUCATION
INFORMAL EDUCATION
PEOPLE
ESTABLISHED BUSINESSES
STEM PEOPLE
Adult Avocations Correlate with Scientific Success
Compared with typical scientist, Nobel laureates are:
• 2X photographers• 4X musicians• 17X artists• 15X craftsmen• 25X writers• 22X performers• (R‐B, et al., 2008)
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Lifetime Participation In Arts And Crafts Of MSU Honors College STEM Grads (1990‐95) vs Public
MSU STEM H GRADS PUBLIC (NEA 2008)
http://www.ced.msu.edu/reports/ARTSMART%20Report‐FINAL.pdf
Engineers Participate More in Arts and Crafts as Adults than General Public
• 1992 NEA Survey of Arts Participation In America, 1982‐1992. Research Division Report #27. ED 378 105. Compiled by John P. Robinson http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED378105.pdf
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Impact of Sustained Arts & Crafts Participation on Patent Output Among
NAE Members1‐5 Patents > 6 Patents
Sustained Fine Arts, Crafts And Performing Arts Correlate With Founding Companies
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Sustained Avocations Among Engineers Correlates With Entrepreneurship
MEDC (N=44) MICH ENG (N = 45)
Intellectual Property Production Correlates with Sustained Arts & Crafts
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Does Your Avocation or the Skills, Knowledge, Etc. Derived From It, Play Any
Role in Your Vocation?
NAE (N = 58) MSU STEM (N = 36) MICH Eng (N = 16) MEDC (N = 26)
Some Typical Responses• “Paper‐folding, wood blocks gave me early insight into 3‐D
geometry” (NAE)• “I use some of my skills from drawing for creating stimuli
for experiments. Experience with visual composition helps to create good diagrams and presentations.” (MSU STEM)
• “Quilting is a great way to use creativity and analytical thinking to solve problems and create something that is aesthetically appealing. It … improves my creativity in my current vocation.” (MSU STEM)
• “I work in lasers and photonics, which has an indirect, coincidental link to photography hobby” (NAE)
• “Mechanical and material properties I learn in my hobbiescan often relate to mechanical and material issues in microelectronics, especially in my specific discipline.” (NAE)
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Do You Recommend Arts and Crafts Education As a Useful or Even Essential Background for a Scientific
or Engineering Innovator?
NAE (N = 58) MSU STEM (N = 36) MICH Eng (N = 16) MEDC (N = 29)
Some Typical Responses• “Yes, because it is relaxing and frees the mind. I think moving
around ‐‐ dancing, playing on the playground, helps one get a visceral feeling for physics.” (NAE)
• “Hands on experience with tools, materials, etc., whether for arts and crafts or more practical pursuits (carpentry, home repair, auto mechanics, etc.), represents a very important experience for practical problem solving.” (NAE)
• “Yes, allows you to explore materials in a different way, figure out how to put things together, try to do things differently.” (MSU STEM)
• “Mechanical skills are important for constructing experimental apparatus. Pattern visualization is very important, and is developed by arts and crafts” (NAE)
• “Yes. Ability to make simple prototypes and models with own hands vital for creativity in product design” (NAE)
• “Yes‐ helps creativity” (NAE)
Visual Thinking Training Improves Science and Engineering Ability
T. R. Lord, J. Res. Sci. Teach. 22, 395 (1985).
J. A. Deno, Eng. Design Graphics J., 5 (autumn, 1995).
S. A. Sorby, B. G. Baartmans, Eng. Design Graphics J. 60, 13 (1996).
M. Alias, T. R. Black, D. E. Grey, Inter. Ed. J. 3, 1 (2002).
S. Sorby, Cogn. Proc. 10 (suppl. 2), S312,10.1007/s10339‐009‐0310‐y (2009).
What Was the Most Important Exposure to Arts and Crafts?
• Active arts and crafts correlated with entrepreneurial outcomes better than passive ones (i.e., composing music rather than playing an instrument; painting or metalwork rather than photography or knitting)
• Informal education, mentoring and self‐education were as important as formal coursesand private lessons
• Participation over a lifetime (particularly as adult!) more important than any particular experience or time period
Arts and Crafts participation in Mature Adults Is a Function of Childhood Involvement
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STEM Grads that Did NOT Participate as a Child
STEM Grads that Did Participate as a Child
In Sum, Investing In Arts and Crafts Builds Innovative and Entrepreneurial
Capacity Over a Lifetime• We are NOT just talking about taking an art class or music lessons at some critical point in one’s life
• We are NOT talking about building a theater or an art museum in one’s community
• We are talking about as SYSTEM that makes available over a lifetime:– Formal education in arts and crafts– Informal education in arts and crafts– Personal and community access to arts and crafts materials and equipment (community centers, crafts and hobby shops, art stores, etc.)
– Full range of community arts and crafts institutions (commercial, cultural, professional and amateur)
Arts and Entrepreneurship SYSTEM:
Lifetime access to:– Formal education in arts and crafts– Informal education in arts and crafts– Personal and community crafts materials and equipment (community centers, crafts and hobby shops, art stores, etc.)
– Full range of community arts and crafts institutions (commercial, cultural, professional and amateur)
Take home messagesStrong formal and informal educational and cultural
opportunities in arts and crafts build a creative STEM work force!
Science and technology flourish only where arts and crafts infrastructure is deep, wide, consistent and strong!
Conversely, strong STEM individuals and industries must promote arts, crafts and cultural development
Investment in arts and crafts may pay off only decades later as innovation in other professions!
We can’t ignore
necessity for
integration and
feedback!
ARTS & CRAFTS
HIGH TECH
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
FORMAL EDUCATION
INFORMAL EDUCATION
ESTABLISHED BUSINESSES
PROFIT $$$$$
STEM PEOPLE
