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{"title":"Scaffolding artifact in entrepreneurship: A design science approach","authors":"Faisal Saeed Malik,&nbsp;Orestis Terzidis","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100035","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Entrepreneurship is increasingly understood as a design-oriented process in which individuals and teams construct opportunities and navigate uncertainty through the iterative use of artifacts. This paper introduces scaffolding artifacts (SAFs) as a distinct and under-theorized class of entrepreneurial tools that provide temporary, structured support for decision-making, learning, and venture development. Drawing on Design Science Research (DSR), SAFs are conceptualized as theory-informed, generalizable frameworks or methods that, when instantiated in specific contexts, serve as cognitive and procedural supports to reduce complexity, enhance agency, and guide entrepreneurial action. SAFs are differentiated from venturing artifacts (VAFs) by their function: while VAFs represent concrete outputs of entrepreneurial work (e.g., product versions, landing pages), SAFs scaffold the venture-creation process itself without predetermining outcomes. This paper contributes to construct clarity by extending scaffolding theory from pedagogic psychology into entrepreneurship, introducing SAFs as adaptive supports that guide entrepreneurial cognition and action. It offers a unified definition of SAFs, distinguishes them from VAFs, applies the type–token distinction to explain contextual instantiation, and uses Design Science Research to frame their intentional development. Well-known tools such as the Business Model Canvas, Design Thinking, and the van Westendorp price sensitivity meter are discussed as exemplars of SAFs in practice. To support design and validation, the paper introduces the Design Science Canvas, an operational framework that structures the iterative development and empirical evaluation of SAFs. As digitalization and AI reshape entrepreneurial ecosystems, the study highlights the potential and risks of algorithmic SAFs, emphasizing the importance of human-centered, adaptive use. By advancing the theoretical foundations and methodological pathways for developing SAFs, this study bridges entrepreneurship research and design practice. It offers actionable insights for scholars, educators, policymakers, and entrepreneurs seeking to foster resilient, reflective, and opportunity-driven venture creation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100035"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145765938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Varieties and applications of tools in entrepreneurial practice","authors":"Eric C. Mota ,&nbsp;Derek J. Ast ,&nbsp;Peter G. Klein ,&nbsp;Gaylen N. Chandler","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100034","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100034","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Entrepreneurs employ numerous tools to guide venture development, yet these approaches differ substantially in their methods, assumptions, and appropriate contexts of use. These variations can significantly impact new venture success, business profitability, and the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and support programs. Despite their importance, entrepreneurial tools have not been systematically evaluated, and the suitability of each tool for specific contexts remains largely unknown. To address this gap, we build a unique dataset of 96 entrepreneurial tools drawn from textbooks, bestselling books, course syllabi from top business schools, and contributions from highly-cited entrepreneurship scholars. Using text mining and algorithm-assisted clustering techniques, we identify four distinct archetypes of entrepreneurial tools: prescribed, adaptive, anticipatory, and experimental. For each archetype, we identify representative tools, their most suitable applications, and describe how different tools can be employed across various stages of venture development. We also develop a meta-tool that integrates insights from across these archetypes, acknowledging both objectivist and constructivist perspectives in entrepreneurship. Our work provides a foundation for theoretical and empirical research in artifacts in design science, heuristics for entrepreneurship education, and a comprehensive framework for selecting appropriate tools throughout the entrepreneurial journey.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100034"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145765937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Creating and applying the Ecosystem Pie Model as a design theory","authors":"Madis Talmar ,&nbsp;Jan Holmström ,&nbsp;A․ Georges L․ Romme ,&nbsp;Bob Walrave ,&nbsp;Ksenia Podoynitsyna","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100030","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100030","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Innovation ecosystems have become pivotal phenomena in a world of increasing specialization and complexity, in which single ventures cannot develop and commercialize technology-driven value propositions alone. In this setting, various firms and other actors need to work together in creating and building an innovation ecosystem around a shared value proposition. The Ecosystem Pie Model (EPM), published in <em>Long Range Planning</em> in 2020, is the first comprehensive tool for mapping and assessing the risk profile of a prospective innovation ecosystem. We describe, and reflect on, how the so-called design theory underlying the EPM was developed. This design theory includes its key constructs, design principles, visual instantiation, detailed application guidelines, and assessment of how mutable its applications are. The initial design theory was used to develop more than 240 ecosystem constellations to assess its applicability and mutability. We also outline various applications of EPM design theory by others. Overall, this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship and innovation literature by developing a complete design theory, one that covers the entire spectrum from theoretical underpinnings to detailed application guidelines and an initial body of applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100030"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144338857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Designing under constraints: How entrepreneurs make the future in Belgium’s construction industry","authors":"Chloé Faton,&nbsp;Julie Hermans","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100033","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100033","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Based on a qualitative case study, this paper explores how Greenbuildings, a Belgian eco-construction venture, engages in future-making (FM) practices to render sustainable alternatives compulsory in an unsustainable industry. Compulsory futures, we find, are imagined futures shaped not by aspiration but by necessity, when ecological, health, or economic threats impose non-negotiable constraints on what must be excluded or transformed in the present. Drawing on Simon’s (1993, 1996) design theory and the FM literature, we identify practices that entrepreneurs engage in when making the future “compulsory”, “desirable” and “plausible”. We contribute to the FM literature by theorizing how entrepreneurs engage with undesirable aspects of the futures. We also extend the entrepreneurship-as-design (EaD) perspective by detailing how constrained environments prompt not just navigation but reconstruction of the problem space. In doing so, we show how designing within limits can become a generative and radical entrepreneurial response in the face of ecological breakdown.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100033"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144826416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An integrative literature review of prototyping in management research: Definition and research agenda","authors":"Steffen Paust ,&nbsp;Claus Thrane ,&nbsp;Steffen Korsgaard","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent years have seen the proliferation of approaches in management featuring prototyping as a central component and vehicle to facilitate interaction with stakeholders. Yet, despite the extensive engagement with prototyping, vocabulary and conceptualizations of the phenomenon still vary and research remains fragmented, hampering empirical and conceptual development. In this paper, we address this by exploring the concept of prototyping in management research. Through an integrative literature review, the study contributes with an inductively developed definition of prototyping that stresses the representational nature of prototyping. Based on the definition, we organize the diverse, fragmented, and eclectic body of work into seven distinct themes. We then compare and elaborate these themes and organize them into three aggregate dimensions to offer an initial sketch of how prototyping materializes from cognitive externalization to conative interaction an how these interdependent processes creates various organizational outcomes. Finally, we suggest future avenues for examining the integration of the fragmented themes and for exploring research opportunities between and within the them.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100026"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143454607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Circular Systems Sandbox: A process tool for circular systems design and rebound effect reduction","authors":"Henry Willem Müller ,&nbsp;Konstantin Remke","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100028","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper develops and validates a novel design artifact called Circular Systems Sandbox. While there is an abundance of literature on new product development and business model innovation, a notable gap exists in integrating these two domains. More systemic design is deemed indispensable because the mismatched design of products, services, business models and collaborations lead to harmful rebound effects. We employ a mixed methods design science approach involving 31 expert interviews, 11 workshops, and an experimental evaluation with 108 participants. The findings demonstrate that the Circular Systems Sandbox significantly enhances the quality of circular product and business model design, providing a practical and comprehensive framework for entrepreneurs. The study contributes to theory by elucidating the interconnections within Circular Systems Design, offering preventive strategies for rebound effects, and aligning with calls for systemic solutions for the Circular Economy. This paper not only advances Circular Systems Design as a concept but also empirically proves its utility, encouraging future research and application in diverse sectors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100028"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143760532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Entrepreneurship and the phenomenology of experiential design: Applying the “Lifeworld” of Merleau-Ponty","authors":"Amir Emami ,&nbsp;Richard A. Hunt","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the intersection of phenomenology, design, and entrepreneurship in order to extend and enhance recent scholarly work that frames business venturing as an expression of experiential and design-oriented practice. Applying Merleau-Ponty's concept of the \"lifeworld\" – where matter, life, and mind are all fully integrated – our approach emphasizes the centrality of embodied cognition in human experience, meaning that the human mind is not structured by specific goals as much as it is structured by body schemas, artifacts, tools, language, culture, and the interplay between spontaneity and repetition. This is particularly true for entrepreneurs, where the integration of lived experiences into the development of novel products and services not only promotes innovation but also redefines entrepreneurial practice as a dynamic, iterative process that fortifies deep connections between entrepreneurs and consumers of their goods and services. By framing entrepreneurship as a design practice informed by Merleau-Ponty's theories, our study illuminates the role of language and the temporality of the lived body in shaping entrepreneurial processes. We demonstrate how embodied engagement leads entrepreneurs to adapt their narratives in response to dynamic market conditions, thereby fostering innovation and strategic development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100031"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144535632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eureka vs. Heritage: A design science approach to handle conflicting normative settings in internal corporate venturing","authors":"Simon L. Schmidt,&nbsp;Katharina Scheidgen","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100029","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100029","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Internal corporate ventures (ICVs) depend on the human resources of their parent firms, yet we find that conflicts between the normative settings of ICVs and their parent firms can hamper their access to such human resources. To address this real-world problem, we adopt a design science approach. First, we theorize the <em>eureka-heritage conflict</em>, meaning that the ICV's eureka-driven normative setting, which promotes radical innovation and creativity while challenging established ways of doing, conflicts with the parent firm's heritage-driven normative setting, which emphasizes stability and operational efficiency by embracing tradition, hierarchy, established routines, and predictable successes. This eureka-heritage conflict hampers human resource access and manifests differently across various hierarchical levels within the parent firm. Second, we proffer prescriptive knowledge that helps ICVs access human resources despite these conflicts, thereby suggesting not only requirements for practical solutions but also contributing actionable guidance and a resource access framework for handling conflicting normative settings to tackle this challenge in practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100029"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143679940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How artifacts shape feedback interactions in new venture ideation","authors":"Thomas Cyron","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Entrepreneurs rely on artifacts—such as verbal accounts, texts, images, presentations, and prototypes—to share their new venture ideas with stakeholders and gather feedback. While artifacts are central to entrepreneurial processes, we know little about how their differences shape feedback interactions and influence the evolution of ideas. This study addresses this gap with a longitudinal multiple-case study of new venture ideation. Drawing on design theory, I propose a typology of entrepreneurial artifacts based on abstraction and aggregation. The findings reveal how distinct artifact types shape feedback interactions, helping entrepreneurs balance exploration with refinement. The study also highlights both the creative opportunities and the potential risks associated with different artifact types, offering actionable insights for managing iterative idea development. These contributions enhance our understanding of materiality in entrepreneurship and provide practical guidance for fostering creativity in dynamic and uncertain contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100025"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143144747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning from design: The potential of entrepreneurial critique","authors":"Ken Anderson,&nbsp;Derek Lidow","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100027","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper we propose <em>entrepreneurial critique</em> (EC) as a critical missing piece in entrepreneurial methodology. We show how the practice of EC, derived from design critique, conceptually improves short and long-term entrepreneurial impact. We identify the value of EC as its ability to efficiently surface blind spots before they turn into costly failures. Analysis of entrepreneurial process literature and popular commercially or socially focused entrepreneurship instruction sets, show the absence of critiques or critique-like practices, and their failure to examine assumptions, anticipate second-order consequences, and refine problem framing before resources are committed to producing artifacts. We formally define entrepreneurial critique and proposition its impacts and conclude by analyzing cultural barriers to the adoption of critique in entrepreneurial education and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100027"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143679941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}