This seems to be a never ending debate/discussion probably across management and definitely in entrepreneurship. I have gone through my own ebbs and flows on wanting to focus exlusively on top tier academic journals to losing faith in the impact I was having and focusing on my own startups, and in 2012 I returned full time to academia but with a clear focus on good scholarship but always with an eye on practice.
Everyone has their own way of doing this and I am not sure there is a right way, but I do believe like many others that we should each take it upon ourselves to find a way for our research to have relevance, be it in the classroom, with entrepreneurs or policy makers or the general public over all.
With that in mind I am going to use this forum to shameless promote a few things:
1) Along with my colleague Ernesto Amoros, we have just released a call for papers in Business Horizons. Ever since my return to academia I have been focused on observing emerging phenomena in innovation and entrepreneurship, and like many of you, have been surprised at how far behind we academics are in theorizing, and building empirical research around emerging spaces. Some of you may know Jeff McMullen has recently taken over the editorial reigns of Business Horizons.
While Business Horizons is lower rated than the other practitioner journals, given Jeff's credentials and ambition for the journal, I am willing (and I hope many of you are too) to take a leap of faith that Business Horizons is on its way up and will, in short time, reach ABS3 level. So the CFP is focused on entrepreneurial opportunities in very nascent spaces like blockchain, smart cities, circular economy, etc. I hope some of you will participate!
2) In the spirit of the discussion of impact on practice, I have been working on insights gathered from several years of research and observation of innovation and entrepreneurship in cities. With the help of Pablo Muñoz and a foreward by Richard Florida, I am happy to announce the publication (tomorrow) of my second book: The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur: How the Growth of Cities and the Sharing Economy are Driving a New Breed of Innovators
If you are interested in the cliff notes version, I reached agreement with Fast Company to publish a series of 4 articles about the book:
Cheers!
Boyd
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