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Are you interested in how entrepreneurship might (or might not) shape desirable futures ?

Join our PDW 'Re-imagining Entrepreneurship to Shape Desirable Futures'!

🗓️ Sunday, August 11th  10:00-12:30 (GMT-5/UTC-5)

📍 Hyatt Toronto  Ballroom level (West Tower)

🎫 PDW overview

Although entrepreneurship has long been considered the armed wing for creating the future, there is less and less consensus on the future thus created, or how it was created. Climate change is no longer debated, income inequality is exploding, and social and political unrest are pervasive: to what extant could entrepreneurship research and practice be the problem, or the solution? This PDW sets the stage for a turning point.

We designed a thought and debate inducing session, around inspiring speakers.

Attendees will first participate in a Futures exercise - performing a projection to 2040: possible, probable, preferred futures. Then, we will do an activity of reverse causality, identifying how we can collectively move towards these preferred futures – and specifically how entrepreneurship could be re-imagined to support these desirable futures.

💼 Panelists

Antje Bierwisch – MCI The Entrepreneurial School

Clay Dibrell – U. of Mississippi

Julius Gatune – Dedan Kimathi U. of Technology

Colin Patrick Higgins – Deakin U.

René Mauer- ESCP Business School Berlin

Jeffery S. McMullen – Indiana

Saras Sarasvathy – U. of Virginia

Siri Ann Terjesen – Florida Atlantic U.

Friederike Welter – U. Siegen / IfM Bonn

👥 Organizers / Session Chairs

Kathleen Randerson – Audencia Business School

Claire Champenois – Audencia Nantes School of Management

Adam Vigdor Gordon – Aarhus University

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Claire Champenois
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Audencia Business School
Nantes, France

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