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Pathways to Connect Research and Practice:
Developing Practice-Inspired Entrepreneurship Research

For at least the past 20 years, there has been an ongoing debate between scientific rigor and practical relevance in academic research, causing a disconnect between academics and entrepreneurs. Instead of an either-or debate, we explore innovative modes of practice-inspired academic research, in which researchers and practitioners collaboratively identify and collectively explore meaningful research questions - research questions that will be useful to entrepreneurs in practice and publishable in global research journals. This PDW explores how research opportunities can be discovered/created through the same customer discovery and design thinking processes which we teach our entrepreneurship students. As a result of this PDW, scholars will be better prepared to co-create rigorous and relevant research alongside entrepreneurs. Furthermore, as a scholarly community, we will brainstorm ideas for practice-inspired research consortia and programs as well as innovative publishing pathways.

If you have questions and/or you are interested in attending, contact the co-organizers, Erik Monsen (erik.monsen@uvm.edu) and John Mueller (jmueller@golfsolutions.com).

Organizer: Erik Monsen, U. of Vermont
Organizer: John Martin Mueller, St. Edward's U.
Speaker: David Deeds, U. of St. Thomas
Speaker: Saras Sarasvathy, U. of Virginia
Speaker: Per Davidsson, Queensland U. of Technology
Speaker: Sameeksha Desai, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Facilitator: Benson Honig, McMaster U.
Facilitator: Casey J. Frid, Pace U.
Facilitator: David Altounian, St. Edward's U.
Facilitator: Dominic Sun Kyu Lim, Ivey Business School
Facilitator: Marina Biniari, Aalto U.
Facilitator: Thomas J. Mierzwa, U. of Maryland


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Erik Monsen
University of Vermont
Burlington VT
(802) 656-8994
erik.monsen@uvm.edu
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