5.5. Epilogue: Rationality and Creativity
Life-philosophy and post-positivistic methodologies have been criticized to neglect rationality and return us to a pre-Illuminated state of irrational speculation. This is not true. Rather, life-philosophy investigates the creative process, that which is unique to life, which has (until now) been proven impossible to be induced into any ‘rational’ automatons. Obviously though, and specifically because the nature of the subject and the unit of analysis are themselves not ‘rational’ (at least not in the current vocabulary and understanding), they cannot be described by ways of using only the terminological and methodological toolset of positivistic science. Instead, such exploration has to allow for an expansion with supplementary aids. In this research, both the meta-physical (mindset) and the physical (infrastructure), aspects have been addressed and analyzed, it is thereby believed that the maximum practical utility has been achieved.

As such, it is a hermeneutic investigation and one from which the author draws from “life’s richness of the individual” to describe the life’s-association as “organism of reality, in which only life pulsates” (Ebrecht, 2007) as Dilthey himself described the approach of the human-sciences. Hence, as the subject is alive, it is necessary to meta-physically ‘understand’ the reality of the organism under investigation (Lutz-Bachmann, 2007) before the practices and functionalities can be analysed and described.

Ultimately, knowledge entrepreneurs will continue to evolve because the nature of knowledge and the agency of mankind are themselves fluid actors in an increasingly connected and virtual world.

As the electronic revolution continues to reshape our lives, our communications and our commerce, it is within the university, our most sacred vessel of knowledge transference, that the revolutionary potentiality of change can be most influential, and most iconoclastic. We know we can know more.

Knowledge is change. Creative destruction is an electronic manifest destiny and in a digitized world, the universities that realize and utilize this potential will be the new digital Ivy League, replacing brick and mortar with bits and clicks. Even though humanism and entrepreneurial human agency will always be at the heart of knowledge production and knowledge services, technology is a mirror of memetic evolution and it empowers modern individuals and institutions. To have a discourse aiming at a knowledge entrepreneurial mindset and to institutionalize a supportive gestell for entrepreneurship in the university is assessed to be crucial to have universities shape the knowledge society as key players. We know we can know more, and now hopefully, we also know a little more about how we can know better.



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