With Knapp, co-principal investigators Tom Martin, professor of electrical and computer engineering; Lisa McNair, deputy director of ICAT, director of the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts, and professor of engineering education; Diana Ayton-Shenker, chief executive officer at Leonardo; and Termeh Rassi, chief strategy officer at Leonardo, will use a mixed-methods approach to collect evidence of historical, current, and future arts-integrated entrepreneurship and innovation activities. Additionally, an advisory committee working with the team will include the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (A2RU), the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for Study of Invention and Innovation, and corporate entities.
This collective effort will entail three phases of inquiry: a systematic literature review, interviews with businesses that are incorporating arts-integrated practices,…
