Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Computing and

Question: Discuss about the Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Computing and Cognition. Answer: Overview of Wicked Problems Wicked problems are identified as social and cultural problems that become difficult to be resolved for mainly four important factors like lack of proper and complete knowledge about the problem or issue, existence of larger number of opinions and views concerning the problem, huge amount of economic burden associated with the resolving of the problem and finally the interconnection of the problem with other problems or issues. Poverty is identified to be a wicked problem for employing larger number of financial and economic resources for resolving the issues. Further, poverty is also found to be associated with other potential economic and social issues concerning deprivation in nutritional and educational parameters of social beings(Sicart, 2013, p.99). I was associated with a social entrepreneurship event, Food for All that aimed at innovating service offerings for generation and availability of food for people living at below the poverty line. The event helped me identify poverty as a wicked problem that became linked with lack of needed nutrition of the masses and where its eradication needed employment of diverse types of infrastructural and economic resources. Differentiation of Wicked Problems from Other Problems The wicked problem is identified to be a problem that is difficult to be formulated. Further, the nature of wicked problems in being tied with other problems becomes difficult to be ideally distinguished as solved in nature. Solutions generated for wicked problems are not evaluated like for other problems as right or wrong. Rather the solutions are evaluated based on their potential as good or bad. Again, the solution to a wicked problem cannot be implemented and tested for its feasibility in an immediate and final fashion. Further, the solutions generated for wicked problems are observed to have irreversible consequences based on the generation of future problems. Wicked problems are also identified to be both unique and symptomatic in nature in that they reflect symptoms of emergence of newer problems(Ackerman, 2015, p.23). Herein, poverty and failure of generating nutritious food for poverty stricken people is identified to be the wicked problem. Further, the solution identified based on amalgamating entrepreneurship and innovative skills would require the sourcing and networking of diverse resources thereby making it long-term in nature. Process of Emergence of Wicked Problems The causes of emergence of wicked problems are observed to be manifold in nature. Wicked problems emerge from the political viewpoint owing to conflicts between stakeholders regarding effective solution to the problem. Wicked problems emerge out from the financial position where the economic and financial resources are observed to become constrained at a specific point such that any further consumption of financial or economic resources beyond the point is not considered feasible in nature(Ritchey, 2011, p.27). Again, wicked problems emerge as temporary in nature where the solutions to the problems are stiffened by the existence of potential constraints that in turn affect the emergence of potential solutions. Lack of needed expertise or knowledge concerning the generation of effective solutions also amounts to the generation of knowledge wicked problems(Burge McCal, 2014, p.5). Wicked problems concerning poverty and lack of proper nutrition are observed to emerge from the financial viewpoint owing to existence of constrained economic and financial resources for countering such. Further, I also observed the lack of needed entrepreneurial knowledge and skills for generating needed solutions to the emerging problems. Mechanism for Resolving Wicked Problems Collaboration between potential stakeholders is identified as an effective strategy that contributes in resolving wicked problems. Collaboration in the form of partnership, joint venture and other types of partnerships between regional and international governments ideally helps in developing a win-win solution for generating an effective solution to a wicked problem. Collaboration is further identified to be an effective strategy for tacking wicked problems owing to the following salient points likes increased commitments on the part of stakeholders, generation of solutions in a comprehensive and holistic fashion and also the existence of fewer resources to be employed by a specific stakeholder(Commonwealth of Australia, 2015). The success of the Food for All event required effective collaboration between different parties including participants like me and my colleagues with other stakeholders like investors, transporters, owners and managers of supermarkets and departmental stores. Effective collaboration generated between the stakeholders helped us in gaining access to needed resources for addressing the poverty and nutritional problems. Role of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Addressing Wicked Problems Social entrepreneurship and also the development of an innovative culture potentially help in addressing of wicked problems. The Food for All event in which I was involved focused on understanding the relationship between poverty and obesity. Our team identified obesity to be induced by not only poverty but also lack of proper education that affected the access of the residents towards nutritious and fresh food products. The social entrepreneurial team can thereby focus on generating needed innovation based on involvement of transportation infrastructures that would help the people gain access to different supermarkets and other community gardens(Ramjugernath, 2015, p.14). References Ackerman, G.L., 2015. Technology-Rich Teaching: Classrooms in the 21st Century. United Kingdom : Rowman Littlefield. Burge, J.E. McCal, R., 2014. Design Computing and Cognition. United Kingdom : Springer. Commonwealth of Australia, 2015. Tackling Wicked Problems: A public policy perspective. Sydney: Commonwealth of Australia. Ramjugernath, D., 2015. 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