Proakatemia is a unit in the School of Business & Media in Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) in Tampere, Finland, that specializes in entrepreneurship and team leadership. Currently there are about 160 team entrepreneur students (TEs) in Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and MBA degree programs and 12 team coaches. Last year, Proakatemia started the first bilingual (English and Finnish) international BBA degree program in Entrepreneurship and Team Leadersh

People have always been concerned with what they could do to be well prepared for future events and uncertainties. One of the skills of a successful entrepreneur is foresight, the ability to make the right decisions for an uncertain time ahead. The technical and biotechnical developments of the last 25 years, and the resulting possibilities of their use, are immense. They have changed working and thinking. The time periods between introduction and widespread usage are getting

In our work with dialogue at the Centre for Ecological Economics and Ethics (CEEE), based at the Nord University Business School, Norway, we focus on communicative processes as a value inherent to ‘living societies’. This stands in contrast to the instrumental value of dialogue in the ‘smart city’ concept, where conversation is often in service of designing technology and services for the future. Our goal is to develop arenas for conversation and to inspire processes that con