Date and Time
The RSA funded Research Network on Citizen Entrepreneurship invites you to a free workshop titled “Lessons from Citizen Entrepreneurship”. The workshop has been postponed to 25th October 2022, more details to follow.
The workshop will begin by presenting the results of the Network’s research on civic entrepreneurship to date – from a theoretical and practical perspective. Above all, however, we will focus on discussing the role of digital technologies in the development of civic entrepreneurship and developing guidelines for policy-making in this area.
The workshop will be conducted by researchers from British, German and Polish universities.
Aims of the event
- Present a research progress in exploring citizen entrepreneurship (CE) within RSA project
- Present and discuss cases of CE in different countries
- Discuss the role of digital technology in CE development
- Indicate main implications for policy making
- Development of CE Research and Project Practitioners’ Network
Programme of Workshop 25 October 2022
Outline Workshop Programme (local time zone – UTC+2 – Central European Summer Time)
09.00 – 09.15 Welcome and Introductions CE project Team and Sally Hardy, CEO Regional Studies Association)
09.15 – 09.30 Citizen entrepreneurship. Lessons from theory (led by Jay Mitra, University of Essex, UK)
09.30 – 10.30 Citizen Entrepreneurship. Lessons from research (led by Ursula Weisenfeld, Luneburg University, Germany)
- The urban development landscape and citizen entrepreneurship in Germany – Leonie Eising, Luneburg University, Germany
- Diverse experiences of citizen entrepreneurship in India – Sneha Bhattacharyya, Banglanatakdotcom, West Bengal, India and Jay Mitra
- The process of emerging citizen entrepreneurship. Cases from Poland – Mariusz Sokołowicz and Agnieszka Kurczewska, University of Lodz, Poland
Discussion
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.00 Lessons from practice: digital cooperatives as a form of citizen entrepreneurship – panel discussion with guests from the platform cooperativism in Poland CoopTech (led by Mariusz Sokołowicz)
12.00 – 12.20 Citizen Entrepreneurship. Lessons for policy (led by Jay Mitra with Giles Tofield, CEO, Cultural Engine, CIC, UK)
12.20– 12.30 Summary and Close of Workshop
Project Team Contacts
Professor Jay Mitra (University of Essex, UK): jmitra@essex.ac.uk
Professor Ursula Weisenfeld: (University of Leuphana, Germany) weisenfeld@leuphana.de
Dr Mariusz E. Sokolowicz, associate professor: (University of Lodz, Poland) mariusz.sokolowicz@uni.lodz.pl
Dr Agnieszka Kurczewska, associate professor (University of Lodz, Poland) agnieszka.kurczewska@uni.lodz.pl
Project Website: https://www.regionalstudies.org/network/citizen-entrepreneurship-rsarnce/