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678: Re-imagining Entrepreneurship to Shape Desirable Futures (16801)

Sunday, August 11, 2024
10:00 – 12:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
Location: Hyatt: Toronto
Session Number: 678
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Our goal in this PDW is to provide a forum for a fresh 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 future thus created, or how it was created. Climate change can no longer be denied, income inequality is exploding, and social and political unrest are pervasive: extant entrepreneurship research and practice could be more the problem than the solution, as the covid crisis has shown us. This PDW sets the stage for a turning point. Mobilizing concepts, activities and tools from Futures studies and practice, participants will be positioned to use these to re-imagine entrepreneurship. To do this, our PDW will have two parts. In the first the chairs, panelists, and attendees will do a projection into 2040, imagining its social, economic, technological, ecological characteristics. A discussion will support the emergence of possible, plausible, desirable futures. In the second, the attendees will have the opportunity to work with panelists, at themed tables, in an activity of reverse causality. This session will provide first a renewed connection between the fields of entrepreneurship and futures rejuvenating or augmenting cross-fertilization; it provides a stage where established meets emerging as each table is designed with experts holding diverse viewpoints on the topic at hand; and finally, our hope is that the discussions thus created will trigger policy, purpose, and /or organizational innovations for a better future.