365: Bridging the Rigor-Relevance Gap – The Role of the Practitioner-Scholar (15380)

Saturday, August 10, 2024

12:30 – 14:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Hyatt: Haymarket

Session Number: 365
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Teaching,Practice,Theme,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/PndD8a

Session Chair(s)

KG

Kenneth A. Grant

Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan U., Canada

Panelist(s)

LB

Lincoln Brown

Southwestern Oklahoma State U., United States
MH

Marcos Hashimoto

Bradley U., United States
NK

Norris F. Krueger

QREC/Kyushu U., United States
MK

Maribeth C. Kuzmeski

-, United States
JM

John Martin Mueller

None, United States
PS

Paul Sanchez Ruiz

Iowa State U., United States

This Professional Development Workshop will help entrepreneurship practitioner-scholars build on their industry and entrepreneurial ecosystem community experience to contribute to bridging the rigor-relevance divide. It will provide guidance on how to draw on the academic work of others to better inform the practitioner community – within and beyond the classroom -- working with entrepreneurship ecosystem players. It supports the overall theme of this year’s conference by considering how we can influence policies and ecosystem entities, as well as addressing how to apply in practice the specific Entrepreneurship Division research questions. Participants will first hear about, and then investigate through roundtable discussion, how they can identify ways to be the bridge to help individuals and organizations under how entrepreneurship research can help them be more innovative and successful. This workshop will also guide them in ways to better navigate the entrepreneurship academic body of knowledge.