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Entrepreneurs engage in sensemaking activities continuously during new venture creation. We followed 30 entrepreneurs who were starting their ventures at an incubator-accelerator setting. These founders wrote weekly diaries over a period of one year reflecting on their experience. We studied specific instances in these diary entries where the entrepreneurs reported sensebreaking - the creation of a meaning void -- and subsequent sensemaking through their interaction with different stakeholders within and outside the incubator. We describe novel sensemaking that follows sensebreaking via three different mechanisms namely, reframing, redirecting and questioning. We discuss the contribution of sensebreaking to the development of entrepreneurial cognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Design research recognizes the relational and temporal dimensions inherent(ly relevant) to new venture creation, and these aspects receive increasing attention in entrepreneurship research. The current study examines how entrepreneurs use artifacts during early stages of opportunity development from a design perspective. To do so we draw on insights from previous research on artifacts in entrepreneurship studies and apply them to a qualitative study of longitudinal data. This was collected in the form of weekly diary reports from thirteen during a one-year program in a business incubation setting. By identifying seven distinct roles in which entrepreneurs employ artifacts in interaction with relevant stakeholders, a design model of opportunity development as artifact-based problem-solving is derived. The results of our study provide a more nuanced understanding of which and why artifacts are used by entrepreneurs during opportunity development, advance our understanding of the way in which artifacts facilitate the co-creation of entrepreneurial opportunities as well as offer practitioners with concrete illustrations on how to consciously use artifacts for successful opportunity development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines cognitive origins of a market orientation among individual entrepreneurs. Taking a grounded theory approach, we analyze entrepreneurs' sensemaking processes during a 12-months business incubation/acceleration program. The results show that entrepreneurs use distinctive market-oriented mental schemas during opportunity development that predominantly reflect the development of a broader stakeholder orientation and vastly lack competitor orientation. We also find that novice entrepreneurs with less than five years of start-up experience develop more activity-related mental models, while experience entrepreneurs develop more generic market orientation mental schemas. Our findings contribute to a better understanding of socially situated cognitive foundations of individuals' market orientation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why is that presentations on "neuro-entrepreneurship" are so well-attended (and seemingly applauded) yet little traction has really occurred? Meanwhile, why it was that in entrepreneurship we hear a regular drumbeat calling for nurturing the entrepreneurial mindset yet we see little progress in rigorously defining that. Nor do we see much progress is applying what we do know. The potential is significant; it seems that every issue of a neuroscience journal offers something that speaks to entrepreneurship and related phenomena. Could it be that we need to bring together the best thinkers and doers around this topic and learn from each other? This symposium intends to do just that. We have convened a diverse set of scholars, both rising and veteran, from Europe, Asia, and North America offering very differing perspectives on moving neuroentrepreneurship forward. Consciousness, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy. Presenter: Robert Joseph Wuebker; U. of Utah. Presenter: Russ McBride; U. of California, Merced. TOWARD A SOCIALLY SITUATED NEUROSCIENCE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Presenter: Mark P. Healey; U. of Manchester. Presenter: Gerard P. Hodgkinson; U. of Manchester. Entrepreneurial Foresight at the Core of Entrepreneurial Expertise:Between Complexity and the Futur. Presenter: Ksenija Djuricic; -. Entrepreneurs' Cognition and Perception of Risk and Ambiguity - Event-Related fMRI. Presenter: Giulio Zichella; Copenhagen Business School. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Last year, we asked: Why is that presentations on "neuro-entrepreneurship" are so well-attended (and applauded) yet little traction has really occurred? Similarly, we asked why it was that in entrepreneurship we hear a regular drumbeat calling for nurturing the entrepreneurial mindset yet we see little progress in rigorously defining that. Nor do we see much progress is applying what we do know. The potential is significant; it seems that every issue of a neuroscience journal offers something that speaks to entrepreneurship and related phenomena. The diverse presenters in 2014 showed this potential for great research and the sizable audience was skeptical yet supportive, launching a learning community. This session brings together some of the leading thinkers on these questions, each bringing a unique perspective on the question of "where next?" for "neuroentrepreneurship. Our format here will be to raise some provocative questions like the ones above and the chair will provide a brief overview and introductions. Next, our panelists will brief us on their current work and then reflect on these provocative questions. We have a diverse set of scholars, both rising and veteran, from Europe and North America and as you will see very differing perspectives on moving neuroentrepreneurship forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why is that presentations on "neuro-entrepreneurship" are so well-attended (and applauded) yet little traction has really occurred? Similarly, in entrepreneurship we hear a regular drumbeat calling for nurturing the entrepreneurial mindset yet we see little progress in rigorously defining that. Nor do we see much progress is applying what we do know. Entrepreneurship should be a field sympathetic to the neuroentrepreneurship agenda, and by and large it is. People think it should be important, and while its relative level of importance might differ there is general interest and a leaning in to what could be learned here. This session brings together some of the leading thinkers on these questions, each bringing an unique perspective on the question of where next for neuro-entrepreneurship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This symposium focuses on measuring rigorously the impact of entrepreneurial education in ways that we have rarely seen in single papers, let alone bringing together some of the best programs in the world. These speakers are all from deeply experiential programs and almost all from programs whose experiential activities center intensively around technology commercialization. If scholars and educators want to know how to "move the needle in turning ideas into reality, this panel will show both a set of programs doing enviable work and some fascinating, robust tools for measuring the impact of experiential entrepreneurship education. Creating viable new businesses AND creating deep entrepreneurial thinkers? These panelists will show you the state of the art of what we know about doing that and the immense potential for future research on how do we grow the expert entrepreneurial mindset and measure that growth. If you want to join in, please pre-register! [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]