Implementing design thinking as didactic method in entrepreneurship education. The importance of through

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has traditionally been taught about entrepreneurship. However, teaching entrepreneurship requires practice and learning by doing. Entrepreneurship education requires education through entrepreneurship where the students feel the real life of being an entrepreneur. The process of Design Thinking offers a method for teaching through entrepreneurship. This paper studies the didactic experiences from a course at Örebro University School of Business where entrepreneurship was taught using Design Thinking as a method, enabling the through dimension. Results from a survey show that Design thinking as a method benefits entrepreneurship education. Some of the key elements contributing to the understanding of entrepreneurship and the iterative approach was a study visit and interaction with stakeholders, a target group of elderly people.

Four Mindsets of Designer-Entrepreneurs

“…The body of knowledge relating to this sort of designer-led entrepreneurship has been slowly but steadily increasing, in the form of handbooks (Varon and Alberti, 2019;Talarico and Heller, 2016;Basadur and Goldsby, 2016), tools (Colombo et al, 2017), typologies (Valencia et al, 2018, Chen at al., 2018, case studies (Kremel and Edman, 2019;Valencia and Pearce, 2019;Val et al, 2019;Gaglione and Gaziulusoya, 2019;Liu and Rieple, 2019;Mata-Garcia, 2017Moller et al, 2013 and models (Mueller and Thoring, 2012).…”

The conceptualisation, practice and value of Design Thinking in Entrepreneurship Education – an Educator’s Perspective

“…Overall, this study aims to contribute to the current debate on the value of integrating Design Thinking into Entrepreneurship Education (Daniel et al, 2016;Huq & Gilbert, 2017;Linton & Klinton, 2019;Sarooghi et al, 2019;Val et al, 2019) by bringing convergence to a common understanding of the conceptualisation, practice and value of Design Thinking for Entrepreneurship Education to inform future Entrepreneurship Education practices. While previous research has quantified the wide use of Design Thinking within entrepreneurship curricula (Kremel & Edman, 2019;Sarooghi et al, 2019), this study sheds light on the quality of the Design Thinking integration in Entrepreneurship Education-from an educator's perspective. This study connects research on Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship Education with a particular focus on the Entrepreneurship Educator to examine -from an Educators point of view -the role and value Design Thinking may have in Entrepreneurship Education in the Higher Education context.Thus, to address the overarching aim, "What is the conceptual understanding, educational practice and perceived value of Design Thinking for entrepreneurship educators in Higher Education in UK & Northern Europe?"…”

“…In 2020 the new Entre-Comp Playbook by the European Union was published, describing Design Thinking as one of the three most important entrepreneurial methods (Baciagalupo et al, 2020). Recent research has demonstrated the broad application of Design Thinking among Entrepreneurship Educators (Kremel & Edman, 2019) and confirmed that Design Thinking is integrated into more than half of the entrepreneurship curricula (54%) (Sarooghi et al, 2019).…”

“…Overall, most studies in the field focus on single case studies and the study of intrinsic cases studies as course design examples (Huber et al, 2016;Kremel & Edman, 2019;Linton & Klinton, 2019). Furthermore, it became apparent that within the existing literature there have been valuable contributions to the field discussing Design Thinking within Entrepreneurship Education from different perspectives (see Section 4.1).…”

“…Moreover, even though most of the research presented is focused on practice, in a way that it presents case studies and exemplary course design examples (Huber et al, 2016;Kremel & Edman, 2019;Linton & Klinton, 2019), the examples mostly refer on the explicit use of Design Thinking content in the field of entrepreneurship teaching. However, as shown on the Literature Review and Synthesis of the DT/EE nexus, both concepts are connected not only on a pure integration of Design Thinking Content in Entrepreneurship Education, but also, and maybe more importantly, regarding their general approach to pedagogic design.…”