Digital Entrepreneurship

Mariusz Soltanifar is a Corporate Entrepreneurship Researcher at the Open University (The Netherlands), and a Lecturer on Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, The Netherlands). His research chiefly focuses on entrepreneurial behavior. He is also a guest and visiting lecturer at numerous universities worldwide.    Mathew Hughes is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University (UK). Prof. Hughes is an expert on entrepreneurial management and his research has been published widely in internationally respected journals. He sits on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Management Studies and the British Journal of Management.Lutz Göcke is a Professor of Business Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen (Germany). His research focuses on business models and (corporate) entrepreneurship.Prior to his professorship, Prof. Göcke worked in industry as the digital product manager for various mobility projects (including Carsharing, Connected Car, and Car-API).

• PART 1: Characteristics of Digital Entrepreneurs.- ​Developing a digital entrepreneurial mindset for data-driven, cloud-enabled, platform-centric business activities: Practical implications and the impact on society.- Unleashing the creativity of entrepreneurs with digital technologies.- Digital entrepreneurship and agile methods in a hackathon case study.- PART 2: Perspectives on Digital Business Models.- Business model development and validation in digital entrepreneurship.- Development and validation of platform businesses in digital entrepreneurship.- Blockchain as an approach for secure data storage on digital consulting platforms.- Artificial intelligence-enhanced business models for digital entrepreneurs.- PART 3: Settings/Contexts of Mobilising Digital Entrepreneurship.- The role of an entrepreneurial mindset in digital transformation: A case study of the Estonian Business School.- Digitalcreativity: Upgrading creativity in digital business.- Corporate digital entrepreneurship: Leveraging the industrial Internet of things and emerging technologies.- New sources of entrepreneurial finance.- Digital intrapreneurship: The corporate solution to a rapid digitalisation.- PART 4: Global Environments and Digital Entrepreneurship.- Pursuing international opportunities in a digitally-enabled world.- Challenges and opportunities for digital entrepreneurship in developing countries.- Digital entrepreneurship for the ‘decade of action’.