Conceptualizing Design Thinking:The Scope of Entrepreneurship

In recent decades, design thinking as a new approach to problem solving and innovation has attracted the attention of many researchers in different fields. Many organizations and individuals today are taking advantage of design thinking as they seek to use the skills and processes of designers to come up with solutions to complex problems or create processes that optimize results and improve conditions. However, there is no consensus in the field of research on the basic features, applications, and definitions of design thinking. To elucidate the knowledge of this field and conceptualize design thinking and its role as cognitive constructs in the entrepreneurial literature, this research has comprehensively reviewed 106 conceptual and empirical studies of a total of 2037 articles from 1985 to 2019. This study is a descriptive and systematic literature review. Identification of different conceptualizations of design thinking, tools for designing thinking, models discussed in this field, and its relation to entrepreneurship are the results of this study.