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It is not just the current corona pandemic that questions the assumed economic and social stability. Both areas confront new challenges and perceive a variety of drastic changes. Businesses acting on consistent basis however seem to gain significance and closer consideration. A poll of entrepreneurial students is supposed to gauge first impressions of the business leaders of tomorrow., Nicht erst die aktuelle Corona Pandemie wirft die Frage auf, ob das Umfeld, in dem wir leben, wirtschaftlich und gesellschaftlich so stabil ist wie bisher angenommen. Beide Bereiche stehen vor neuen Herausforderungen und spüren vielerorts einschneidende Veränderungen. Nachhaltig agierende Unternehmen scheinen jedoch an Bedeutung zu gewinnen und rücken vermehrt in den Fokus der Betrachtung. Eine Befragung gründungsinteressierter Studierender soll dazu erste Impulse aus der Sicht der Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmer von morgen liefern.

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." (Henry Ford) Innovations are the driver of sustainable progress of a national economy. Since at least the fourth industrial revolution, affected by globalization, digitization, and high-tech advancement, the importance of business model innovations has increased rapidly. However, there is a lack of precise approaches for a purposeful adoption of business models to specific entrepreneurial challenges. Therefore, the 55 business model patterns by Gassmann et al. (2017) are integrated into a category system, based on the nine business model bricks by Osterwalder/Pigneur (2011). An application-oriented deduction is enabled by giving guidance which business model patterns should be used if specific bricks are modified and vice versa.

Research Data, Dataset_Publications for What Makes Nonfamily Employees Act as Good Stewards? Emotions and the Moderating Roles of Stewardship Culture and Gender Roles in Family Firms by Kai C. Bormann, Sabrina Backs and Christina Hoon in Family Business Review

“Team work makes the dream work”–this saying of John C. Maxwell could not be described in a better way especially for creating new business companies. But how does such a team should be structured, especially in the entrepreneurship education in a university context? Is it: “Birds of a feather flock together” or rather “Opposites attract”? Moreover, entrepreneurial traits and the composition of entrepreneurial teams are not investigated as a whole in the academic context so far. To contribute to this research, a first focus is set on entrepreneurship education in general. Therefore, recommended approaches from theory and other studies are compared with the developed concept of an entrepreneurial education program at Bielefeld University that is mostly in accordance with theoretical recommendations. Hence, to identify entrepreneurial traits in the academic context, 43 students took part in a questionnaire within the framework of the “Practice in Entrepreneurship” at Bielefeld University in spring 2018. So, a profile of the personage and motives in entrepreneurship and team behavior were investigated. In addition to the questionnaire, an examination of founding teams in the same “Practice in Entrepreneurship” was conducted. At this juncture, 61 students formed 14 entrepreneurial teams working on a business idea and finally pitching it in front of an expert jury that evaluated and ranked the teams. It was investigated how different attributes like gender, study courses, and age, as well as the team size influence the final ranking. Both the findings concerning the entrepreneurial traits and the results concerning the composition of entrepreneurial teams show much congruence with the existing literature leading to following implications: A successful entrepreneurship education program at a university should consist of theoretically and practically oriented elements involving different external stakeholders. Students taking part in such an entrepreneurship education program show many entrepreneurial traits that should be developed further within this program. The composition of student founding teams should not be predetermined, except for a recommended team size of four to six students.

Angesichts der gestiegenen Bedeutung von gewerblichen Schutzrechten sowie der Abschaffung des Hochschullehrerprivilegs in vielen Landern sind Universitaten zunehmend an der Anmeldung der Erfindungen ihrer Wissenschaftler als akademische Patente interessiert. Das kann vielfaltige Auswirkungen auf Forschung, Lehre und Administration an einer Universitat haben. Dieser Literaturuberblick fuhrt in das Thema ein, integriert bisherige Untersuchungen zu solchen Implikationen zu einem Gesamtbild und zeigt dabei Komplementaritaten, aber auch Widerspruche auf. Er kann damit Ausgangspunkt fur weiterfuhrende Arbeiten sein, die sich mit betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschungsfragen, etwa zur Etablierung von Technologietransferburos oder der Schaffung von effektiven Anreizstrukturen fur die beteiligten Akteure, beschaftigen.