PDW RENT Conference

Join the exciting PDW on “Pursuing Impact in Entrepreneurship Research with Design Science Approaches.” In this session, you will explore how to enhance your research with design science.

Are you curious about how to make a positive impact with your research? Or to double down on making a difference in the “real world”? With this PDW, the facilitators (see below) give you actionable advice and a tool to identify such contributions for your research. The RENT community is buzzing (already) with innovative and transformative entrepreneurship. At the same time, while crucial issues are addressed, the current research paradigms tend to adopt a stance of describing and interpreting phenomena. Most of the time, researchers find themselves as neutral observers and detached analysts. Hence, impactful researchers hold only one piece of the puzzle (“how things are”) in understanding and solving the real-world problems they encounter.  As a complementary paradigm, design science aims to go beyond describing and interpreting existing, taken-for-granted phenomena. Instead, it focuses on developing and implementing interventions to bring about new, desirable phenomena (futures). Embracing design science approaches promises to accelerate progress toward achieving meaningful, real-world impact. Researchers adopt the role of scientifically deriving and describing knowledge on “how things ought to be.” 

Learn more about the PDW and register here: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/EventParticipation/EventPublic/da45598b-345c-4566-a2a9-d2b6d4135b8d?displayId=Fin3174193

Facilitators 

• Dimo Dimov, University of Bath
• Leonhard Gebhardt, ICN Business School
• Franziska Günzel-Jensen, University of Aarhus
• Verena Meyer, Leuphana University of Lüneburg
• Simon L. Schmidt, University of Göttingen