Impact Innovation
Conceptualizing how world-improving innovation works, success factors, and particularities. Developing a practical impact innovation framework relying on value engineering.
Proactive Strategy
Applying backcasting for proactive, rather than reactive (i.e., "agile"), strategy.
Business Ecosystems
Mapping and analysing industry transition due to digital platforms. Developing a mapping method for business ecosystem that extracts and precisely describes how value is co-created.
Publications
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Thorén, Kent. How digital platforms transform industries, Part of: Technological Change and Industrial Transformation, Taylor and Francis Inc., 2021. Chapter of book.
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Thorén, Kent, Vendel, Martin. Backcasting as a strategic management tool for meeting VUCA challenges, Journal of Strategy and Management., 2019, Vol. 12, No. 2, 298-312. Article : refereed.
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Thorén, Kent. Corporate entrepreneurship in SMEs, an evaluation of venture level success factors, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, 2019, Vol. 11, No. 5, 461-488. Article : refereed.
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Varano, M., Kähkönen, E., Aarnio, H., Clavert, M., Kaulio, M., Thorén, Kent, Haenen, C., Van Petegem, W., Colombelli, A., Sansone, G., Raguseo, E., Paolucci, E., Scharnagl, E., Mendes, R., De Oliveira, L. C., Fergus, S., Brennan, R. Entrepreneurship education ecosystems in engineering and technology (E4T), Proceedings of the 46th SEFI Annual Conference 2018: Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Engineering Education Excellence : 2019. Conference paper : refereed.
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Kaulio, Matti A., Thorén, Kent, Rohrbeck, René. Double Ambidexterity: How a telco incumbent used business-model and technology innovations to successfully respond to three major disruptions, Creativity and Innovation Management, 2017, Vol. 26, No. 4, 339-352. Article : refereed.
