13665: Meeting the Future: Debating How WeThink, Research and Teach Entrepreneurship

Friday, July 25, 2025

11:15 - 13:45 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall D- D1-m1

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/bRavBL

Session Chair(s)

KR

Kathleen Randerson

Audencia Business School, France
CC

Claire Champenois

Audencia Nantes School of Management, France
AG

Adam Vigdor Gordon

AU, Denmark
JV

Julia Voegele

MCI - The Entrepreneurial School, Austria

Presenter(s)

AB

Antje Bierwisch

MCI The Entrepreneurial School, Austria
SK

Steffen Korsgaard

University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
TK

Tim Kuhn

U. of Colorado, Boulder, United States
SM

Stefano Magistretti

Politecnico di Milano
SR

Stratos Ramoglou

University of Bristol, United Kingdom
SS

Silvia Sanasi

Free U. of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
JS

Jelena Spanjol

Ludwig Maximilian U. of Munich (LMU), Germany

Moderator(s)

MB

Marieshka Barton

Durham University, United Kingdom
MB

Malin Brännback

Abo Akademi U., Finland
RM

Rene Mauer

ESCP Business School, Germany
RT

Reginald Tucker

University of Oklahoma, United States

Our goal in this PDW is to provide a forum to further the dialogue between the research and practice of Entrepreneurship and that of Futures. Indeed, 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.