This cumulative dissertation deals with the potential of underexplored cultural sources for innovation. Nowadays, firms recognize an increasing demand for innovation to keep pace with an ever-growing dynamic worldwide competition. Knowledge is one of the most crucial sources and resource, while...

Our Business Model (BM) teaching approach helps students to understand three essential dimensions of cognitive exploration strategies and to experience negotiation strategies in groups for designing a first BM. Didactically, it follows Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle, including individual...

Great uncertainty accompanies entrepreneurs’ processes of designing promising business models (BMs). Therefore, stabilising factors act as important means in this process. In this study, we examined the impact of cognitive dispositions and visual BM frameworks on the BM process and outcomes....