Developing Responsible & Sustainable Innovations in EntEd
Event Information
About this Event
Organisers
Verena Meyer, PhD Student and Research Associate, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Institute of Management and Organization – verena.meyer@leuphana.de
Flavio Pinheiro Martins, Student at University of Sao Paulo, School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting at Ribeirão Preto – fpmartins@usp.br
Prof. Dr. Markus Reihlen, Vice President (Graduate School, Young Academics & Entrepreneurship) and Professor of Strategic Management at Leuphana University of Lüneburg as well as International Research Fellow at the Said Business School, University of Oxford – reihlen@leuphana.de
Fabian Pleß, PhD Student and Research Associate, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Institute of Management and Organization – fabian.pless@leuphana.de
Yasmin Azim Zadeh, Research Associate, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Cooperation and Transfer Service – azimzade@leuphana.de
Abstract
As entrepreneurship educators, we typically bring together students as entrepreneurial teams and let them work on their own ideas. But how could we get these students to tackle global challenges and develop sustainable ideas? One key mechanism is open innovation. To make use of this, entrepreneurship education concepts need to bridge the perspectives of multiple stakeholders. Developing innovation communities within a framework of an open innovation process presents a suitable approach with a possible long-term impact in this regard. The ‘Sandbox Approach’ combines a structured open innovation process while fostering an innovation community which is enabled to solve regional challenges. In this professional development workshop, participants will experience the ‘Sandbox Approach’ at first hand and develop comprehensive concepts for their common challenges.
Workshop Objectives
- Introduce the Sandbox Approach
- Experience the efficiency of structured open innovation processes as well as how innovation communities function by accounting for a multitude of perspectives
- Reflect on challenges that hinder innovativeness in everyday work and develop first ideas and more comprehensive solutions for these challenges
- Discuss ideas to combine open innovation processes with innovation communities and reflecting on one’s own role within these processes/communities
- Reflect on own roles as researchers and educators to foster responsible and sustainable innovation
- Discuss the transfer of this learning experience to other contexts in which sustainable innovations within certain constraints are crucial
Main audience
The workshop offers insights from the field of innovation to offer a broadening of perspectives. The main content of this workshop best aligns with RENT conference tracks #2 (How to develop entrepreneurial skills? The role of education) and #7 (Entrepreneurship education, learning, and knowledge dissemination), but also strives towards an integration of concepts from tracks #16 and #17, as social and sustainable entrepreneurship are also relevant perspectives in the workshop context. As such, the workshop can be of interest to the broad RENT community.
Participation
Participation in the PDW is free for ECSB members. If you are a member, please register via the ECSB member category. If you are not a member, please register via the non-member category and become a member on https://ecsb.org/join-ecsb/.
