328 26 Popular music entrepreneurship in higher education Facilitating group creativity and spin-off formation through internship programmes Guy Morrow, Emily Gilfillan, Iqbal Barkat and Phyllis Sakinofsky Introduction The purpose of this chapter is to investigate student team-based possibilities for expanding the range of delivery modes for internship programmes within a popu- lar music degree. A case study of the collaborative approach used in an arts entre- preneurship and management internship programme at Macquarie University (MQ) 1 is provided, in addition to pre- and post-programme experience interview data featuring the perspectives of some of the students and staff involved.This exer- cise in self-reflection concerning the pedagogical approach we have taken at MQ explores the following research question:What is the nature of student team-based internships in terms of collaborative creativity? Through an engagement with the literature pertaining to higher popular music education (HPME), arts entrepre- neurship curricula in higher education and group creativity, we examine our case study data in order to explore the possibilities for building teams of student interns in our popular music programme. 1 Macquarie University is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third univer- sity to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney. www.mq.edu.au Smith, G. D., Moir, Z., Brennan, M., Rambarran, S., & Kirkman, P. (Eds.). (2017). The routledge research companion to popular music education. Taylor & Francis Group. Created from unimelb on 2022-09-20 22:32:05. Copyright © 2017. Taylor & Francis Group. All rights reserved.