Vanessa Ratten is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at La Trobe University. She is Program Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation subjects and teaches Corporate Venturing and Managing Innovation. She has published seven sole-authored books including Sport Entrepreneurship: Developing and Sustaining an Entrepreneurial Sports Culture (Springer). She has also edited more than twenty books including Entrepreneurship and the Community: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Creativity, Social Challenges, and Business (Springer).

Highlights the need to consider entrepreneurship as a debatable topic

Emphasizes the changing views of entrepreneurship in society

Encourages thinking around geo-political frontiers in entrepreneurship practice

1. Entrepreneurship as a debatable topic.- 2. Geopolitical shifts from the COVID-19 crisis and resulting entrepreneurship trends.- 3. Climate change and environmental change debates.- 4. Sustainable entrepreneurship from a political perspective.- 5. The Ukraine/Russia conflict and entrepreneurship.- 6. Environmental entrepreneurship and socio-cultural change.- 7. New normal conditions for productive entrepreneurship.- 8. Economic geography and entrepreneurship.- 9. Individual entrepreneurs and their role in geopolitics.- 10. Future research trends around entrepreneurship and geopolitical change.