Episode 90: Innovation has at least as much to do with transforming people as with technology
Thu Feb 05 2026
Professor Isin Guler is a renowned expert on the limitations of venture-capital investing for stimulating entrepreneurship. Among other problems, inventors from marginalized populations have trouble attracting attention, and yet even when they do, they are often misunderstood and passed by. Yet entrepreneurship can be profoundly important especially to owner-managers. Isin’s recent work with doctoral student Robert Hill on Texas prisons demonstrates the transformative potential of entrepreneurship training on reducing recidivism by providing newly released persons with unprecedented opportunity.
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Professor Isin Guler is a renowned expert on the limitations of venture-capital investing for stimulating entrepreneurship. Among other problems, inventors from marginalized populations have trouble attracting attention, and yet even when they do, they are often misunderstood and passed by. Yet entrepreneurship can be profoundly important especially to owner-managers. Isin’s recent work with doctoral student Robert Hill on Texas prisons demonstrates the transformative potential of entrepreneurship training on reducing recidivism by providing newly released persons with unprecedented opportunity.