In this conceptual paper, we propose how entrepreneurship as design unfolds in venture creation as future-making through three processes: design as practice, as action, and as the IDER activity model. We aim to give a better explanation of how venture creation is a process of embedded sets of imaginative, generative and transformative leaps of future-making. This model focuses on performing future-making through transforming between exploration to exploitation. We argue that this model can secure the collective future-making potential and consolidates entrepreneurship as design and entrepreneurship as practice research streams. Future-making emphasizes that the future is not a pre-determined entity nor solely a product of individual perception, but rather a dynamic construct shaped through collaborative, creative practices (Thompson and Bryne, 2022). Future-making, as described, relies on collaboration among practitioners to express and enact imagined scenarios. The reference to practice theory suggests that future-making is an active, ongoing process embedded in social practices (e.g. Bucciarelli, 1988). Design as a reflective practice embodies this view by being deeply rooted in the context of its application, continually adapting and evolving based on real-world social interactions and feedback. Future-making also requires strong generativity and new venture is a generative organization (Le Masson, 2023). New venture creation is not about problem solving and solution optimizing but navigating between different solution paths (or different paths to alternative futures). New venture creation is also about transformative aspect of realization where new knowledge is in action.@en

This study aims to contribute to the open innovation literature with a multi-level interaction perspective. The innovation issue addressed in this study is related to innovation management in SMEs. We investigate whether there is a relationship between the SMEs’ researcher/inventor networks and SME innovativeness and whether this relationship is stronger in higher institutional trust countries. We used the survey data from the World Values Survey for institutional trust scores in countries and annual Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey conducted in 20 countries (where the survey item for researcher/inventor networks was used) between 2009 and 2013 with 20,512 valid SMEs (both traditional and technology SMEs) answers. The study adopted Hierarchical Linear Multi-Level Modelling with the fixed effects of independent and control variables and the random effect of higher-level interaction country variables. Our study contributes to the literature on open innovation in SMEs by providing a multi-level analysis of the effect of institutional trust on the relationship between SME researcher networks and SME innovativeness. Specifically, we argue that the mere presence of researcher networks do not affect the SME innovativeness positively. Furthermore, we show that this relationship is moderated by the level of institutional trust in the country, highlighting the importance of the national institutional context in fostering innovation. These findings provide new insights into the dynamics of open innovation in SMEs and the role of institutional trust in facilitating effective collaboration.@en

This article reports on a two-decade Deweyan Inquiry into suitable scientific elements to enrich existing engineering education with theory about innovation and entrepreneurship. Setting up a university-wide educational program to train the engineer of the future: educating the entrepreneurial engineer, is a specific part of this. Current social challenges require future-proof and integrated solutions and not just new technical solutions. The future engineer must therefore, in addition to his obvious technical competence, also be competent in the socio-interactive and organizational dimensions of technological innovation.
The overcrowded curricula forced us to see to what extent we could transfer parts of innovation and entrepreneurship theory within existing education and through their teachers. Great idea, but what should we tell them? Only learning some knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation was considered too simplistic. Transferring anything about stage gates, lean startups or business models makes little sense because much of this relatively superficial knowledge can also be found on the internet.
From a scientific-philosophical perspective, we realized that technological innovation and entrepreneurship are not actually integrated theoretical concepts. In other words, the conclusion is that no integrated theoretical perspective is available for our program of the entrepreneurial engineer. Actually, very surprising, because we have been doing this since the beginning of humanity.
Our answer is therefore a proposal for a new transdisciplinary scientific field that focuses on the inherent human activity of future making, here tentatively called the Delta Sciences. What we see as the integration of the division of scientific areas used in the Netherlands into Alpha (humanities), Beta (Natural) and Gamma (Social) sciences. We see pragmatism supplemented with theoretical frameworks from the intersubjective domain as well as the domain of logic as important elements for the basis of the Delta Sciences. A scientific field that is about how we as people build our own future together, hence future making.@en

Purpose: This review paper provides an inductive analysis on "Smart product service systems" in fashion industry by explaining how servitization as a form of service innovation is critical for sustainability, and the promise of digital technologies for smart fashion industry based on analysing current challenges, opportunities, and digital technologies for the implementation of Smart PSS in the fashion industry. Methodology: The study employed an inductive analysis approach to identify the servitization domains, respective Smart PSS applications and the environmental sustainability results. The environmental sustainability results matched with the services were derived from the extensive literature by inductive coding of all identified Smart PSS applications through systematic literature review. Findings: Fashion industry applications of Smart PSS were matched with the respective servitization domain, and the discussion were extended with the possible environmental sustainability results based on the literature content. Further research questions have been proposed. Originality: Recent research calls for contributions about the effects of digitalization on different outcomes of servitization beyond financial performance and draws attention to the small number of studies addressing the environmental benefits of digital servitization to the circular economy. This study addresses the research gap for a scholarly discussion about the environmental sustainability results of digital servitization in fashion industry and provides a comprehensive future research agenda.@en

Corporate accelerators are the specific programs designed by incumbent companies to scan, select, and accelerate the growth of promising technology startups for definite mutually beneficial objectives such as gaining access to disruptive
innovation of the startup or outreaching to incumbents’ customers for fast time to market. Based on the theoretical background, this study contributes to literature by adopting systematic literature review of “corporate accelerators” as the methodology to deliver cumulative insights and a final absorptive capacity process model was built based on examining prior single or multiple case studies which applied to their context as a limitation. Absorptive capacity theory enhances the understanding of technology transfer’s modus operandi at corporate acceleration settings. As a result of the systematic literature review, the author offers a conceptual model to inform future research and practice.@en