Contemporary Entrepreneurship

Basel Hammoda is a PhD candidate and lecturer of entrepreneurship in the Department of Business Administration at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. He is a startup mentor and advisor with more than 10 years of experience, working with different ecosystem programs across the world. He focuses his research on innovative approaches to entrepreneurial learning and its intersections with other entrepreneurship subdomains.Susanne Durst is a full professor of management at Reykjavik University, Iceland, an adjunct professor in the Department of Business Administration at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and a full professor of business administration at the University of Skövde, Sweden. She also serves on the editorial board of several academic journals.

• 1. Introduction - The diversity, practicality, and contemporariness predicaments of entrepreneurship research 2. From Books to Blogs: The digitalization journey of a contentpreneur 3. Business Model Innovation in Fintech: A Chilean WealthTech Industry Perspective 4. A Born-Global entrepreneur in the PayTech industry: Finding opportunities and capturing value in international markets 5. Digital skills platform from Silicon Valley: Training new generations using experiential learning principles 6. Design Thinking: A Teaching and Learning Pedagogy for Building an Entrepreneurial Mindset 7. Students Creating Value for Microenterprises in Live Casework: Cases from the Scandinavian Growth Creators Project 8. What we don’t talk about in entrepreneurship: moving the spotlight from the “hero entrepreneur” to the “unremarkable”’ everyday lives of student entrepreneurs 9. Doing Well by Doing Good: Identity Conflict In An Indigenous Entrepreneur 10. Entrepreneurial resilience amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Echoes of a British catering and hospitality startup 11. A Healthtech startup internationalization dilemma: Challenges expanding into the established U.S. market 12. Circular Economy business model challenges in entrepreneurial realties: Navigating the value chain of a recycling startup 13. Conclusion – Contemporary entrepreneurship: Global perspectives and cases

“A great way to learn about entrepreneurship is to take a deep dive into the real-life stories of the entrepreneurs through the struggles and triumphs of their daily journeys as they build their businesses. This book provides a wealth of case studies from around the world, providing inspiration and insights.” Ayman Ismail, Abdul Latif Jameel Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship, associate professor at The American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Business and the founding director of the AUC Venture Lab“Cases in Contemporary Entrepreneurship is a much-needed and timely contribution to the field of entrepreneurship that bridges theory and practice through insightful stories and examples of entrepreneurs and contexts in which entrepreneurship happens.” Christoph Winkler, Iona University“Entrepreneurship and the real-life stories and case studies in this book share a common thread of resilience as evidenced by the entrepreneurs themselves. The network of stories explores entrepreneurial innovations at various intersections and offer a more practice-oriented approach to entrepreneurship theory and research.” Oscar Edwards, CEO, Higher Growth Strategies, LLC; Diversity Equity Inclusion Group, LLC, USA