This House Believes That Entrepreneurship Research Is Out of Touch with the Psychedelic Renaissance: For the Motion
Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that entrepreneurship research practices "selective recognition" of the psychedelic renaissance, foregrounding particular understandings of entrepreneurial benefit while neglecting personal transformation, collective practices, and market formation. Proposes that knowledge taboos may shape scholarly attention and calls for engagement that lets emerging phenomena challenge entrepreneurship's assumptions about purposes, relationships, and value. |
Abstract
This essay supports the motion that entrepreneurship research is out of touch with the psychedelic renaissance. It defines this mismatch as selective recognition: the phenomenon encompasses personal transformation, collective practices, and market formation, while scholarly attention foregrounds particular understandings of entrepreneurial benefit. Drawing on an interdisciplinary synthesis, the essay uses Patel and Wolfe’s framework on psychedelic-assisted therapy and entrepreneurial well-being to examine how cognitive change acquires entrepreneurial value, whether improved well-being reinforces or redirects venture commitments, and how organizational settings shape experiences. It also considers knowledge taboos as a possible influence on scholarly attention. The argument calls for engagement that allows emerging phenomena to challenge entrepreneurship’s assumptions about purposes, relationships, and value.