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Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom or shared with students online.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Business Studies.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Rekha Krishnan and Dr Rajiv Krishnan Kozhikode, from Simon Fraser University in Canada, who study how interaction rituals influence cooperation, exclusion and inequality in start-up ecosystems, particularly during the formative early stages of a venture.
• This resource also contains interviews with Rekha and Rajiv, providing insights into careers in business research.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Rekha and Rajiv’s research, and tasks them to devise a start-up accelerator for entrepreneurs in their local community.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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