Business & Entrepreneurship
Business & Entrepreneurship developed more slowly for me, because I initially associated business with commercialisation. I still do not see my work as mainly market-driven, but I now understand B&E as value creation: analysing what is around, identifying what is missing, and figuring out what can be of value. Because I believe in situated perspectives and community-centric values, my entrepreneurial mind often makes me act like a researcher. I look for gaps between what already exists, then ask whether these gaps can become sites for meaningful intervention. However, B&E differs from academia because it can reach many more people. This matters to me as a Turkish Cypriot, because many people I am inspired by are not in a (political) position to be recognised as academics. In this way, Business is how to communicate with other worlds, and entrepreneurship is how I find gaps and create value within them. In B2 Design Innovation Methods (DAB200), I explored formal aspects such as market analysis, value proposition canvas and analysing/communicating viability. In my FBP, reaching out to museums, prehistoric parks and experts was entrepreneurial: I expanded my network to create an opportunity beyond readily available resources, brought stakeholders into the process, and started understanding how different people might value the project differently.




