Creative Distillation

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director
[email protected]

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director
[email protected]

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business
303.492.9018 | [email protected]

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EPISODE 46: Natalie Eng (Alberta) on Social Enterprise Ecosystems (LA Road Trip!)

On this installment of Creative Distillation, we continue our LA Road Trip with the second of three interviews recorded during an outdoor cocktail reception at the Social Entrepreneurship conference hosted by the USC's Marshall School of Business.

Brad and Jeff speak with Natalie Eng, a 3rd year Graduate Research Assistant and PhD student at the University of Alberta School of Business in Edmonton. While sipping an IPA from Hop Saint Brewing, Natalie talks about what she’s discovering through her study of social enterprise ecosystems. Specifically, she’s interested in how people collaborate to produce an ecosystem in the first place, and how the strength of that ecosystem’s infrastructure can predict the viability of the ventures within it.

There's also some additional commentary on the rat attack fended off by our producer, Joel, during the previous episode.

Enjoy and cheers.

Learn more about Natalie Eng on her faculty page at https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/nweng

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected].

Thanks for listening.

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An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director
[email protected]

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director
[email protected]

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business
303.492.9018 | [email protected]

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EPISODE 45: Diana Hechevarria (Texas Tech) on Linguistics and Social Entrepreneurship (LA Road Trip!)

On this installment of Creative Distillation, we continue our LA Road Trip at the first of two outdoor cocktail receptions at the Social Entrepreneurship conference hosted by the USC's Marshall School of Business.

Brad, Jeff -- who has known Diana for many years -- and Diana enjoy a rollicking conversation about her latest paper and her work at the crossroads of female, minority, cross-cultural, social and strategic entrepreneurship.

Also, our producer, Joel Davis, is attacked by rats!

Enjoy and cheers.

Read Diana Hechevarria's paper, “Cross‐cultural implications of linguistic future time reference and institutional uncertainty on social entrepreneurship” - published in 2023 in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. https://scholars.ttu.edu/en/publications/cross-cultural-implications-of-linguistic-future-time-reference-a

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected].

Thanks for listening.

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An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director
[email protected]

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director
[email protected]

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business
303.492.9018 | [email protected]

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[SPECIAL EPISODE] Beer Here!: A Brew-Centric Panel Discussion at the Museum of Boulder

As part of their exhibit, Beer Here!: Brewing In the New West, the Museum of Boulder invited Creative Distillation to record a panel discussion in front of a live audience at the museum "speakeasy."

Jeff and Brad assembled a lineup of local brewers to discuss their inspirations, challenges and successes the state of Colorado microbrewing, and the incredible sense of camaraderie Colorado's brewers share. All of this while they walk Brad and Jeff through at 10-beer tasting.

Our featured panelists:

-- Casey LeFever, Front of House and HR Director at 4Noses Brewing (4nosesbrewing.com)

-- Chris Coin, co-founder and Chief of Brewing Operations at Sanitas Brewing (sanitasbrewing.com)

-- Rick Holt, Co-Founder and Head Brewer at Kokopelli Beer Company (Colorado’s first solely woman-owned and operated brewpub) (kokopellibeerco.com)

Whether you're a hophead, an entrepreneur or both, this is your dream episode.

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected].

Thanks for listening.

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An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director
[email protected]

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director
[email protected]

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business
303.492.9018 | [email protected]

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EPISODE 44: Hop Saint Brewing, Torrance, CA (LA Road Trip!)

On this installment of Creative Distillation, we continue our LA Road Trip at HopSaint Brewing in Torrance, California. Recommended to us by Real Soda's Danny Ginsberg as a great lunch spot with amazing beer, we beelined it over and immediately fell in love with the place. Bustling with a busy lunchtime crowd, the New Orleans-inspired vibe and menu did not disappoint, and the beer was every bit as fantastic as promised.

Our deeply satisfying initial experience had us hunting down the founder with the hope of recording a Creative Distillation episode there. Yet again, HopSaint delivered. We returned at lunchtime the next day to sit down with founder Steven Roberts and brewmaster Brian Brewer (yep, Brewer) to learn more about HopSaint's origins, and their clear vision for true community, built on craft beer.

Enjoy and cheers.

Learn more about HopSaint Brewing and order merch at: https://www.hopsaint.com/

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected].

Thanks for listening.

-
An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director
[email protected]

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director
[email protected]

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business
303.492.9018 | [email protected]

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EPISODE 43: Sophie Bacq (Indiana) and Tom Lumpkin (Oklahoma) on Civic Wealth Creation (LA Road Trip!)

On this installment of Creative Distillation, we continue our Hi Def Brewing recording session. This time, Brad and Jeff speak with Sophie Bacq (on a 3-episode streak!) and Tom Lumpkin, Prof Emeritus of Entrepreneurship from Oklahoma University and a Senior Visiting Research Assoc at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

Theirs is one of the many productive collaborations that result from entrepreneurship conferences. Since meeting over a decade ago, they’ve collaborated on several papers which they discuss here, including their most recent work, Communities at the Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Societal Impact: A Cross-Disciplinary Literature Review. The paper looks at the civic wealth created by socialization, and how entrepreneurship and business play a critical role in bringing together communities to bring about social change.

Enjoy and cheers.

Learn more about Hi Def Brewing and order merch at: https://hidefbrewing.com

Learn more about Sophie Bacq on her faculty page at https://kelley.iu.edu, and find more info about Tom Lumpkin on his faculty page at https://ou.edu/price.

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected].

Thanks for listening.

-
An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director
[email protected]

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director
[email protected]

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business
303.492.9018 | [email protected]

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EPISODE 42: Jill Kickul (USC) and Sophie Bacq (Indiana), Organizers of the USC Social Entrepreneurship Conference (LA Road Trip!)

On this installment of Creative Distillation, we continue our Hi Def Brewing recording session. This time, Brad and Jeff speak with Jill Kickul, Professor in the Lloyd Greiff Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC, and Sophie Bacq, Associate Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. They're the co-presenters of the 19th annual USC Social Entrepreneurship Conference (our reason for visiting Los Angeles), and share with us the origins of the social entrepreneurship conference. They also discuss the inevitable (and fruitful) partnerships and relationships that are formed there, the powerful things come from bringing together academics and practitioners, the evolving “DNA” of business/entrepreneurship students, and the critical importance and eternal challenge of measuring impact.

Enjoy and cheers!

Learn more about Hi Def Brewing and order merch at: https://hidefbrewing.com

Learn more about Jill Kickul on her faculty page at https://marshall.usc.edu.

You’ll find more about Sophie Bacq on her faculty page at https://kelley.iu.edu.

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected].

Thanks for listening.

-
An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director
[email protected]

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director
[email protected]

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business
303.492.9018 | [email protected]

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EPISODE 41: Cristina Ward, Co-Founder, HiDef Brewing, Downtown Los Angeles (LA Road Trip!)

For the next edition from our LA road trip, Brad is back with us, joining Jeff at HiDef Brewing in Downtown LA to speak with brewery co-founder Cristina Ward about the collective action aspect of the brewing community, how brewing evolved from her husband's midlife hobby to an actual brewing business, and the most important lessons gleaned from opening a brewery. We're also owned by USC Social Entrepreneurship Conference co-presenters, Jill Kickul (USC) and Sophie Bacq (Indiana).

Enjoy and cheers!

Learn more about HiDef Brewing and order merch at: https://hidefbrewing.com

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected].

Thanks for listening.

-
An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director
[email protected]

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director
[email protected]

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business
303.492.9018 | [email protected]

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EPISODE 40: Shon Hiatt (USC) on the Origins and Evolution of the Soft Drink Industry (LA Road Trip!)

On this installment of Creative Distillation, Jeff is still joined by special guest host-turned-special guest Shon Hiatt, Business Professor at USC, discussing his lifelong passion for soda and his paper, “From Pabst to Pepsi.” Shon is one of the nation's (if not world's) pre-eminent soft drink experts and afficionados. His entertaining stories reveal an expansive knowledge of the industry’s fascinating history.

Enjoy and cheers!

Learn more about Real Soda In Real Bottles and order merch (and soda!) at: https://realsoda.com

Learn more about our research guest, Shon Hiatt, on his faculty page at https://Marshall.USC.edu. His paper, “From Pabst to Pepsi: The Deinstitutionalization of Social Practices and the Creation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities” was published in Administrative Science Quarterly.

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/75584/Tolbert13_From_Pabst_to_Pepsi.pdf?sequence=1

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Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected].

Thanks for listening.

-
An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director
[email protected]

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director
[email protected]

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business
303.492.9018 | [email protected]

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EPISODE 39: Danny Ginsburg, Founder/Soda Sommelier, Real Soda In Real Bottles (LA Road Trip!)

This installment of Creative Distillation kicks off a series of episodes recorded during our first road trip, to Los Angeles for the Social Entrepreneurship Conference hosted by USC. Brad couldn’t make it for this one, and Jeff is joined by a special guest host, USC professor Shon Hiatt, as they conduct some field research at Real Soda In Real Bottles, a soda distributor based in the Los Angeles area. Founder Danny Ginsburg guides Jeff and Shon through a tasting of a few of his custom made flavors while explaining how a German language major with a lifelong passion for bottlecap collecting became the “Soda Sommelier” of Southern California.

Enjoy and cheers!

Learn more about Real Soda In Real Bottles and order merch (and soda!) at: https://realsoda.com

Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected].

Thanks for listening.

-
An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.

University of Colorado-Boulder professors Jeff York and Brad Werner distill entrepreneurship research into actionable insights.

CREATIVE DISTILLATION

Jeff York | Associate Professor | Research Director
[email protected]

Brad Werner | Instructor | Teaching Director
[email protected]

Deming Center for Entrepreneurship | CU Leeds School of Business
303.492.9018 | [email protected]

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EPISODE 38: Desiree Pacheco (IESE) on Social Movements, Entrepreneurial Action and the US Solar Energy Industry

This time, we’re still at The Deming Center in CU's Leeds School of Business, discussing academic research with Desiree Pacheco, Assoc. Prof. of Entrepreneurship AT IESE in Barcelona, Spain, and co-author of a paper titled, “Social movements and entrepreneurial activity: A study of the US solar energy industry." The paper is published in Research Policy.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Theodore-Khoury/publication/363565142_Social_movements_and_entrepreneurial_activity_A_study_of_the_US_solar_energy_industry/links/633357e45d1e2d53d9a0f566/Social-movements-and-entrepreneurial-activity-A-study-of-the-US-solar-energy-industry.pdf

Learn more about Desiree Pacheco: https://www.iese.edu/faculty-research/faculty/desiree-pacheco/

Learn more about CU's Deming Center for Entrepreneurship: https://deming.colorado.edu

Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected].

Thanks for listening.

-
An Analog Digital Arts Production for the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship
Produced, recorded and edited by Joel Davis

"Whiskey Before Breakfast" [Traditional] performed by Jeffrey York and Brad Werner. Recorded, mixed and mastered by George Figgs.