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Digital Entrepreneurship for the “Decade of Action” HowEntrepreneurs Can Impact Our Race Towards the Sustainable Development Goals Manouchehr Shamsrizi, Adalbert Pakura, JensWiechers, Stefanie Pakura, andDominique V. Dauster Abstract In 2020, the UN launched the “Decade of Action” to achieve the Sustainable DevelopmentGoals (SDGs) by the year 2030.As theSDGs are interdependent, intersectional and interdisciplinary, so must be their solutions. This chapter argues that thebestwayto identify,develop,andscalesolutionsofsuchquality is (digital) entrepreneurship, building on the principles of open innovation, cutting-edge technologies, and social business. The COVID-19 pandemic in early2020 inparticular serves asa stark reminderof the interconnectednatureof theSDGsandthechallengesweface inachievingthem.In thisarticle,weexplore the thirdSDG(SDG-3),“Goodhealthandwell-being”.Weshowthepotential for digitalentrepreneurship tofoster theriseofnewformsofdigitalhealthcareandto accelerate the digitalization of the healthcare sector. Due to both perceived and real issues of regulatory compliance, user experience, and long investment/ equipment use cycles, SDG-3 has been one of the slowest to adopt innovative solutions by far.We discuss specific areas, such as blended reality or quantum computing, foremergingandfuturedigitalhealthapplications. In thischapter,we M. Shamsrizi (&) gamelab.berlin of Humboldt-Universität andRetroBrain R&DGmbH,Hamburg, Germany e-mail: manouchehr.shamsrizi@leuphana.de A. Pakura RetroBrain R&DGmbH,Hamburg, Germany J.Wiechers Mensa International, Riskful ThinkingVentures LLC, Cologne, Germany S. Pakura University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany D.V.Dauster Yunus +You - theYYFoundation,Wiesbaden, Germany ©TheAuthor(s) 2021 M.Soltanifar et al. (eds.),DigitalEntrepreneurship, FutureofBusiness andFinance, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53914-6_15 303