25 research outputs found
How is value created and exchanged in different stages and different types of university-industry collaborations?
Using the Business Model Canvas to Improve Investment Processes
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how entrepreneurs market their business opportunities towards business angels in the investment process. This is achieved by introducing the business model canvas as a mitigating framework to help entrepreneurs in communicating and structuring the information desired by business angels.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper mobilises a case study approach by following a series of investment processes and investment meetings between entrepreneurs and business angels through 27 semi-structured interviews as well as participant observation and qualitative participant feedback from 13 investment processes.
Findings
The findings illustrate how introducing a framework like the business model canvas helps alleviate the informational and communication challenges between entrepreneurs and business angels. However, some problems occurred when the entrepreneurs and the business angels did not fully agree on the value proposition of the investment opportunity.
Research limitations/implications
The findings show that entrepreneurs who market their business cases to investors obtain better feedback and a higher chance of funding using the business model canvas. Implications of this paper also relate to the preparation of the entrepreneurs and that matchmakers between entrepreneurs and investors can use the business model canvas to facilitate such processes.
Originality/value
This paper contributes to both the theory of the investment process as well as the application of the business model canvas.
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Using digital gamification in the Context of Business Models
The use of blended learning to enhance motivation and learning by the students is a recent and increasingly important topic in teaching. This paper will give an example regarding how blended learning was implemented in an entrepreneurial course with business models as the primary structure
Creating levers of management:Project management as an instigator of value creation in different stages of university-industry collaborations
From Traditional to Modern Universities:The Ambiguousness of Researcher Incentives in a University-Industry Collaboration Perspective
De-internationalisation, Re-internationalisation and Business Model Innovation:Exploring the Intersection
This article explores firms’ de-internationalisation and re-internationalisation through the lens of business model innovation. The purpose is to uncover the potential of business model innovation to enrich firms’ understanding of the reasons behind de-internationalisation and inspire their endeavour to re-internationalise. This article contributes to the research of this intersection. It supports practitioners in enhancing their decision-making by applying business model innovation lenses to their international business activities. Finally, it suggests and encourages further research of this scarsely researched intersection
Developing impactful entrepreneurial teaching using a business model framework
This paper provides insights towards the development of an impactful entrepreneurial course called New Venture Creation. The course is based on the principals of Lean Start-up methodology but modified to encompass the demands from a Higher Educational Institution. The course has shown positive results among students, externals and incubators