Digital Entrepreneurship

Digital Entrepreneurship brings new opportunities and challenges. Exploring the new digital landscape provides knowledge on the impact of this fast-growing digital driver of entrepreneurship on the transformation of the socioeconomic system, and information on how these changes can generate business opportunities.

It is our honour to have  Prof Satish NAMBISAN and Prof Martin OBSCHONKA to be our speakers of the IIDS Digital Entrepreneurship Seminar. The seminars will provide knowledge on the new form of entrepreneurial operates across various digital platforms and information on how these changes can generate business opportunities.

Digital Entrepreneurship has change the way of doing business. In recent years, there has been a growing adoption of digital platforms in positioning products and services within dynamic digital networks using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Digital Entrepreneurship takes an important role in exploring business opportunities and mobilizing resources using digital networks.

Thanks again for Prof Satish NAMBISAN, and Prof Martin OBSCHONKA for their contribution to the “IIDS Project – The Evolution of Digital Entrepreneurship, FinTech and FinReg”. We are looking forward to our research collaborations in the future.

Digital Entrepreneurship Seminars (Zoom) in Sep 2020

I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Prof Satish NAMBISAN and Prof Martin OBSCHONKA for being the speaker for the IIDS Digital Entrepreneurship seminar. There are over 150 registrations from oversea and local universities such as HKU, HKBU, HKCityU, HKLU, OUHK and UOWCHK, for the seminars. Their presentations are extremely informative, and the active participation illustrated the importance of the topic to our colleagues and students.

The INTER-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IIDS) Seminars are fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (RGC Ref. No.: UGC/IIDS15/B01/19

TUE 22 Sep 2020
IIDS Zoom Seminar:
The New Digital Landscape of Entrepreneurship
IIDS Zoom Seminar:
Entrepreneurship Network in
the Digital Era
Time:
09:00am to 10:15am
Time:
10:30am to 11:45am
Speaker:
Prof Satish NAMBISAN

The Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, U.S.
Speaker:
Prof Martin OBSCHONKA

Professor in Entrepreneurship at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
The INTER-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IIDS) Seminars are fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (RGC Ref. No.: UGC/IIDS15/B01/19

Schedule

Date: 22(Tue) Sep 2020 (HK and Queensland); 21(Mon) Sep, 2020 (Ohio)

Welcome: 09:00 to 09:05 (HK); 21:00 to 21:05 (Ohio)

Presentation: 09:05 to 10:00 (HK); 21:05 to 22:00 (Ohio)

Prof Satish NAMBISAN

Q&A: 10:00 to 10:15 (HK); 22:00 to 22:15 (Ohio)

Break: 10:15 to 10:30 (HK)

Welcome: 10:30 to 10:35(HK); 12:30 to 12:35(Queensland)

Presentation: 10:35 to 11:30 (HK); 12:35 to 13:30 (Queensland)

Prof Martin OBSCHONKA

Q&A: 11:30 to 11:45(HK); 13:30 to 13:45(Queensland)

END: 11:45(HK)

Entrepreneurship Network in the Digital Era



Prof Martin OBSCHONKA

Professor in Entrepreneurship at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Presentation:
Entrepreneurship, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence
IIDS Zoom Seminar:
Entrepreneurship Network in
the Digital Era

Date:
TUE 22 Sep 2020


Time:
10:30am to 11:45am


Free Online Registration

The INTER-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IIDS) Seminars are fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (RGC Ref. No.: UGC/IIDS15/B01/19

The New Digital Landscape of Entrepreneurship



Prof Satish NAMBISAN

The Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

Presentation:
Entrepreneuring in a Digital World: A Research Agenda
IIDS Zoom Seminar:

The New Digital Landscape of Entrepreneurship

Date:
 TUE 22 Sep 2020

Time:
09:00am to 10:15am


Free Online Registration


The INTER-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IIDS) Seminars are fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (RGC Ref. No.: UGC/IIDS15/B01/19

Reference

  • Nambisan, S., & Baron, R. A. (2020). On the costs of digital entrepreneurship: Role conflict, stress, and venture performance in digital platform-based ecosystems. Journal of Business Research.
  • Nambisan, S., Lyytinen, K., & Yoo, Y. (2020). Digital innovation: towards a transdisciplinary perspective. In Handbook of Digital Innovation. Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Nambisan, S., Zahra, S. A., & Luo, Y. (2019). Global platforms and ecosystems: Implications for international business theories. Journal of International Business Studies, 50(9), 1464-1486.
  • Nambisan, S., Wright, M., & Feldman, M. (2019). The digital transformation of innovation and entrepreneurship: Progress, challenges and key themes. Research Policy, 48(8), 103773.
  • Autio, E., Nambisan, S., Thomas, L. D., & Wright, M. (2018). Digital affordances, spatial affordances, and the genesis of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 12(1), 72-95.
  • Nambisan, S., Siegel, D., & Kenney, M. (2018). On open innovation, platforms, and entrepreneurship. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 12(3), 354-368.
  • Nambisan, S. (2017). Digital entrepreneurship: Toward a digital technology perspective of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41(6), 1029-1055.
  • Lusch, R. F., & Nambisan, S. (2015). Service innovation: A service-dominant logic perspective. MIS Quarterly, 39(1), 155-175.
  • Nambisan, S., & Baron, R. A. (2013). Entrepreneurship in innovation ecosystems: Entrepreneurs’ self–regulatory processes and their implications for new venture success. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 37(5), 1071-1097.

Honourable Speakers

I would like to express my my heartfelt thanks to Prof Martin OBSCHONKA (Professor in Entrepreneurship at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia) and Prof Satish NAMBISAN (the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University)for accepting our invitation to be the speaker of the IIDs Digital Entrepreneurship Seminars.

Prof Martin OBSCHONKA
Professor in Entrepreneurship at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Prof Satish NAMBISAN
The Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

Prof Martin OBSCHONKA

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Martin OBSCHONKA is Professor in Entrepreneurship at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is a psychologist working in the research fields applied psychology, entrepreneurship, vocational behavior, economic culture, and social, economic, and technological change. He is currently Director of the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research. In 2018 he was appointed as International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also Chair of the Academic Committee of the annual ACERE conference (Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange). He is Associated Editor of Small Business Economics and International Journal of Psychology  and is on the Editorial Board of Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology,and Management Review Quarterly.With his focus on person-environment interactions and transaction, his research aims at advancing the knowledge of psychological and economic factors and mechanisms relevant for human agency in context.

His research involves projects on entrepreneurial development over the lifespan, entrepreneurial regions and culture, public policy, human capital, personality, geographical psychology, organisational behaviour, well-being and stress, and social and economic change. He has an interest in interdisciplinary projects, cross-cultural perspectives, innovative data and methods, and also in the practical application of new scientific knowledge.

He has published his research in psychology journals (e.g., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of PersonalityEuropean Journal of PersonalityJournal of Vocational Behavior, European Psychologist), entrepreneurship journals (e.g., Journal of Business VenturingEntrepreneurship: Theory & PracticeSmall Business Economics), economics journals (e.g., European Economic ReviewIndustrial and Corporate Change), economic geography journals (e.g., Regional StudiesEnvironment and Planning A), finance journals (Journal of Baning & Finance), and interdisciplinary journals (e.g., PLOS ONE).

His research received international media attention (for example, studies in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Vocational BehaviorEuropean Economic Review,   Small Business EconomicsJournal of Personality, Social Psychological and Personality Science, and Journal of Business Venturing Insights), with a Nr. 1 Altmetric score for media coverage in news outlets of all studies published in the top 20 innovation and entrepreneurship journals (Google Scholar journal ranking). Media outlets that covered his research include The Times (UK), Harvard Business Review, The Times of IndiaThe Boston GlobeForbesThe Atlantic, Inc. MagazineThe BBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Sydney Morning HeraldThe Huffington PostPopular Science, Time Magazine, Spiegel Online,  FocusOnlineHandelsblatt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Tagesspiegel.

Recently, Springer Nature selected his entrepreneurial personalities in political leadership study as one of 2018’s most influential studies published by Springer Nature. In 2019, The Australian ranked him among the top performing 40 researchers in Australia who are less than 10 years into their research career (he is in the top five in the category: business, economics, management).

Prof Satish NAMBISAN

Satish NAMBISAN Ph.D. is the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. His current work focuses on how digital technologies and digital platforms shape innovation, entrepreneurship and international business. His work has appeared in several leading business journals including Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, MIS Quarterly, Research Policy, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. He is the author of The Global Brain (Wharton School Publishing). His new book on digital globalization will be published by MIT Press in 2021. Dr. Nambisan serves as a Field Editor for the Journal of Business Venturing.