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CfP | EURAM 2017 (Glasgow): Designing entrepreneurship and innovation processes

  • 1.  CfP | EURAM 2017 (Glasgow): Designing entrepreneurship and innovation processes

    Posted 11-11-2016 09:42

    EURAM 2017 | Making Knowledge Work 
    June 21-24 | Glasgow, Scotland  
    SIG 03 – Entrepreneurship (ENT)


    Designing entrepreneurship and innovation processes

    Isabelle Reymen, Eindhoven University of Technology
    Dimo Dimov, University of Bath 
    Sharon Dolmans, Eindhoven University of Technology

    Submission Deadline: 10 January 2017

    This track proposes to bring together scholars drawing on and studying design approaches to entrepreneurship and innovation processes, in order to explore generative mechanisms of these processes as well as enhancing entrepreneurship and innovation practices.

    Entrepreneurship and innovation typically entail iterative collaboration and co-creation processes among various actors and institutions, such as entrepreneurs, investors and incumbents, but often also scientists, universities and government agencies. Yet, it is still unclear how such complex interactions between various actors and institutions, with potentially diverse aspirations and logics, shape processes related to entrepreneurship and innovation and how particular configurations of actors and/or sequences of actions may enable or constrain collaborative processes.

    This track advocates a design approach for entrepreneurship and innovation research and practice. A design approach is particularly suitable for understanding the open-ended, collaborative and creative nature of entrepreneurship and innovation processes. It also facilitates the development of interventions, evidence-based tools and solutions that serve to increase the relevance and usefulness of research for practice, helping researchers to generate new concepts and devices, instead of only observing and explaining existing phenomena and systems. In practice, a design approach, focussing on iteratively making and hands-on learning is recognizable in emerging collaborative practices and spaces for entrepreneurship and innovation, like makerspaces, incubators and accelerators. From a practice and policy perspective, insights are needed that can facilitate collaboration and co-creation among actors and institutions on various levels.

    For organization and management studies (OMS), the interest in design spans now a decade, following up on Simon's earlier advocacy of management research as a science of the artificial (1969/1996). Designing is defined by Simon as the activity of changing existing situations into desired ones. Key publications that served to revitalize Simon's argument in OMS involved Boland and Collopy (2004), Romme (2003) and Van Aken (2004). The increased attention for design is also evident from special issues published in Organization Science, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Organization Studies and Strategic Management Journal. This broader literature on design in OMS can be extended towards the entrepreneurship and innovation domain, offering vocabulary and concepts that can be recontextualized, translated and applied towards entrepreneurship and innovation issues and challenges. 

    For more information and submission guidelines, please visit: http://www.euramonline.org/programme2017/tracks/sig-03-entrepreneurship-ent.html


    We hope to see you there!
    Sharon Dolmans, Isabelle Reymen and Dimo Dimov