Are you interested in a dialogue between the research and practice of Entrepreneurship and that of Futures?
Join our PDW 'Meeting the Future: Debating how we think, research and teach entrepreneurship'!
🗓️ Friday, July 25, 2025 - 11:15 - 13:45 CEST (GMT+2)
📍 Bella Center: Hall D- D1-m1
🎫 PDW overview
Although entrepreneurship has long been considered the armed wing for creating the future, there is less and less consensus on the hegemonic conceptualization of entrepreneurship.
Futures, an interdisciplinary and holistic branch of the social and management sciences holds that there is no predetermined future, but that a range of plausible futures can be explored and ultimately be created.
This PDW sets the stage for a turning point. Mobilizing concepts, activities and tools from futures thinking and practice, participants will be positioned to use these to question and ultimately re-imagine entrepreneurship.
To do this, our PDW will have two parts. In the first, experts will deliver a pecha kucha talk related to their expertise at the crossroads of futures and how it challenges, rejuvinates or nuances existing views on entrepreneurship. In the second, the attendees will have the opportunity to engage in a collective discussion moderated by entrepreneurship scholars, with the aim of identifying fault lines and bridges between these two fields.
This session will provide a renewed connection between the fields of entrepreneurship and futures, rejuvenating or augmenting cross-fertilization and a stage where established meets emerging. Our hope is that the discussions thus created will trigger thought and action towards evolving entrepreneurship as a future-oriented area of scholarship and practice.
💼 Panelists
Speakers (Pecha Kucha)
Jelena Spaniol - Munich School of Management (LMU)
Antje Bierwisch – MCI The Entrepreneurial School
Silvia Sanasi - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Stefano Magistretti - Politecnico di Milano
Stratos Ramoglou – University of Bristol
Steffen Korsgaard – University of Southern Denmark
Discussants
René Mauer- ESCP Business School Berlin
Reg Tucker – University of Oklahoma
Malin Bränback – Abo Akademi University
Marieshka Barton – Durham University
👥 Organizers / Session Chairs
Kathleen Randerson – Audencia Business School
Claire Champenois – Audencia Business School
Adam Vigdor Gordon – Aarhus University
Julia Vögele - MCI The Entrepreneurial School
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Kathleen Randerson
Associate Professor
Kathleen Randerson Person
Paris
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