Innovating digitally: enabling new avenues for entrepreneurship and innovation teaching resources between academia and industry

Due to changes in technology and customer behaviour, entrepreneurial firms have to constantly innovate. Here, service innovation has appeared as a successful way to overcome the dead-end road of competition (Bouwman & Fielt, 2008). Thus, entrepreneurial firms are increasingly asked to develop competences to engage in digitally-enabled innovation processes for services as reflected in recent competence frameworks (European Commission, 2019). Consequently, universities need to update entrepreneurship education to these new demands through a multi-perspective research approach to co-research and co-design future entrepreneurship education.

First, we aim at developing an up-to-date digital innovation process to enhance the limited scientific knowledge on the use of digital tools for innovation processes (Akaka & Vargo, 2014; Helmer et al., 2021). Second, we aim at developing digital platforms to enhance the engagement of industry in education and vice versa. Third, we aim at gaining insights to develop modern entrepreneurship course curricula in this context.