Page - 311 - in Digital Entrepreneurship - Impact on Business and Society

Decade of Action. Based on our literature review and practical case studies, we developed the following six primary recommendations for action which target all stakeholder of the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem. In doing so, we provide a holistic lens combining thefindings of open innovation, social business, and future technologies: 1. Foster knowledge and technology transfer via open innovation from the sci- entific community beyond businesses towards all actorsworking on the SDGs, particularly taking into account the necessary access to finance 2. Foster entrepreneurship education, and expand its scope towards continuing education also focusing on senior andmid-career executives 3. Introduce and support social business (and/or social intrapreneurship) in the potentially impactful organizationsworking on the SDGs 4. Harness the potential of diversity, notably female entrepreneurship (Halberstadt et al. 2018), migrant entrepreneurship (Council of Europe 2019), introverts (Castrillon 2019), entrepreneurs of colour (Kauffman Foundation 2016), and other forms ofminority entrepreneurship (Bates 2012) 5. Include founders and entrepreneurial ecosystems as part of the regulatory and economic policy framework to copewith COVID-19 6. To obtain economic and social value from emerging technologies it is not enough generating technology. Moreover, it is necessary that the technology will be disseminated, absorbed and put to action before its full value can be derived (Chesbrough 2019). Furthermore, our findings culminated in an easy-to-use canvas. We took Osterwalder’s “Business Model Canvas” and redesigned it to help digital entre- preneurseffectively tackle theSDGs:open innovation for complexproblems, future and emerging technologies for future proof solutions and social business thinking to keep societal issues inmind. The relevance of digital health and therapeutics for achieving the SDGs is rising and an event severely restricting access to healthcare professionals and doctors due to capacity overload or isolation, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, serves as a stark reminder of just how fragile many of our achievements towards particularly SDG-3 can be in the face of global calamity. Fostering an entrepreneurial spirit among young people, but especially those who are not traditional founders such as women, the elderly, people with disabilities, refugees, and others while also encouraging open innovation and cooperation within sectors will help build a more inclusive and resilient economy and health sector. Buthowcanoneuse the“DigitalEntrepreneurship for the ‘DecadeofAction’— Canvas” best? Innovative teaching and learning formats at universities and other forms of higher learning—notably those engaged in lifelong learning—have increased, ever since the first formal entrepreneurship education formats were created in the early 2000s. However, many entrepreneurship education curricula continue todisregard the ideaoffullyDigitalEntrepreneurship, not tomentionhow little is on offer addressing health challenges in particular. As “really big 320 M. Shamsrizi et al.