At DEFT Digital, Entrepreneurial and Financial Transformation centre, we set forth to investigate how the interplaying forces of Digital Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Finance strategically disrupt and transform whole industries, firms, and related business models, as well as individual cognition, behavior, and action.
In a context characterized by heavy uncertainty, we recognize how transformation, spanning from the ecosystem level to the individual one, is enacted through the combination of human and technological factors of Digital Innovation (i.e., how digital technologies enable the introduction of novel solutions in the market), Entrepreneurship (i.e., how resources are gathered and organized around new ventures and startups to capture emerging opportunities) and Finance (i.e., how financial resources are allotted and managed).
The multidimensional impact of such factors is analyzed and assessed by applying a wide range of research methodologies (e.g., qualitative, quantitative, experimental, and mixed) and a combination of theoretical lenses stemming from social sciences and computer science, with a cross-industry perspective covering Banking, Insurance, Life Science, New Space and beyond.
