%0 Journal Article
%T Design-Led Approach to Entrepreneurship
%A Baran, Grzegorz
%J International Journal of Contemporary Management
%V 2018
%R 10.4467/24498939IJCM.18.034.10020
%N Numer 17(4)
%P 7-26
%K entrepreneurship, design-led approach, design thinking, method, methodology
%@ 2449-8920
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/international-journal-of-contemporary-management/artykul/design-led-approach-to-entrepreneurship
%X 
	Background. The literature on entrepreneurship indicates the lack of a strong theoretical basis to fully describe and explain this extremely dynamic and future-oriented area. The classic approaches to the organization and management are not always sufficient to solve some wicked problems in the area, which require the interdisciplinary synthesis of various sciences combined with the experience of practice, and often quite new conceptual frameworks.

	Research aims. The purpose of this paper is to describe and present the result of the analysis of the relatively new approach to entrepreneurship, which derives from design sciences.

	Methodology. The discussion undertaken in the paper is theoretical and methodological, and primarily based on the method of deduction, which referred to the critical literature study has allowed to achieve the research goals.

	Key findings. The paper presents the relatively new approach to entrepreneurship, which derives from design sciences and designers’ practice. However, it is being successfully adopted within organization and management sciences to solve open, complex and unambiguous management problems, especially where entrepreneurship and innovation are required. As the result of the reasoning process, the basic rules of design-led approach to entrepreneurship have been identified. They constitute the basis for a conceptual framework of the presented approach.

	JEL Codes: O3, M1, L2