TY - JOUR
T1 - The Future in the Mirror and Behind It
T2 - Scientists and more
AU - Dimov, Dimo
PY - 2024/6/30
Y1 - 2024/6/30
N2 - This paper argues that the framework of entrepreneurs-as-scientists, portraying entrepreneurs as tasked with making precise and reliable inferences, and expressed in certain mathematical language, trivializes entrepreneurial practice. I highlight the challenges that arise from replacing the abstract notations of mathematical language with names from ordinary language of entrepreneurship. Co-opting of ordinary language for mathematical purposes distorts our understanding of business ideas, venture development, and entrepreneurial processes. At stake are different conceptions of the future. One creates the future within language, the other accepts that the future lies outside of language as an untameable realm of perpetual novelty.
AB - This paper argues that the framework of entrepreneurs-as-scientists, portraying entrepreneurs as tasked with making precise and reliable inferences, and expressed in certain mathematical language, trivializes entrepreneurial practice. I highlight the challenges that arise from replacing the abstract notations of mathematical language with names from ordinary language of entrepreneurship. Co-opting of ordinary language for mathematical purposes distorts our understanding of business ideas, venture development, and entrepreneurial processes. At stake are different conceptions of the future. One creates the future within language, the other accepts that the future lies outside of language as an untameable realm of perpetual novelty.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85189618284&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00464
DO - 10.1016/j.jbvi.2024.e00464
M3 - Article
SN - 2352-6734
VL - 21
JO - Journal of Business Venturing Insights
JF - Journal of Business Venturing Insights
M1 - e00464
ER -