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Being a successful entrepreneur and founding a very profitable company or group of companies represents the pinnacle of accomplishments possible in business. Successful entrepreneurship is associated with a high degree of practical intelligence, creative, and innovative abilities, as well as managerial and business talent. Nonetheless, scholars have not yet studied gifted entrepreneurs. Although entrepreneurship...
This chapter introduces a new trend in giftedness research: the study of giftedness and economy. The progress of human civilization is based on scientific, technological, educational, moral, political, and commercial achievements of the mind of its most talented individuals. The gifted are thus mainly responsible for innovations worldwide. It means that the extent of societal interest in the gifted...
This chapter presents high intellectual and creative educational multimedia technologies (HICEMTs) as one of the possible methods for gifted education in the near future. HICEMTs will constitute one of the innovative breakthroughs in science and technology of the 21st century and will lead to a new wave of innovations in psychology and education in general and gifted education in particular. HICEMTs...
Perceptions of giftedness have, over the course of history, developed from a theological through a metaphysical to an empirical approach. This chapter will offer an overview of the latter approach, which has guided giftedness research since the end of the 19th century. First, the historical development of the concept of intelligence and its significance for giftedness research will be delineated....
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