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Multiple level playing field Technology enables different elements to work together when they normally do not. Expanding technological capabilities and changing social, economic, and political practices go hand in hand. Current technology allows us to sense more, to analyze better, and to create new items, such as our own currency. This ability democratizes the entrepreneurial playing field, allowing different players with different means to join forces. A multiple level playing field enables a variety of means and people to cooperate and exchange apples and oranges. Anyone can become an investor independent of his or her means, and different currencies can be used to support the same goals. Technology can create level playing fields between large and small players, entrepreneurs and people, and entrepreneurs and investors. Considering technology an equal partner opens new paths to the SDGs (Haraway 2016). Using technology to enlarge space for people and means working together in realizing the SDGs contributes to equal treatment of all people and human dignity, equalizing power relations and empowering relations between companies and citizens. Multiple entrepreneurship Considering each business model as a fractal or microcosm of the grand scheme, the models provide a vision of multiple entrepreneurship. Each of the described business models are potential small wins that could change the economic system. These pockets of future create other plausible economies by rethinking entrepreneurial practices based on multiplicity. Boundaries incumbent companies face are exceeded, and businesses become meshworks. Meshworks contain a variety of players, intertwined actions, and a diverse group of stewards working together in a layered multilevel playing field. Combining apples with oranges enables organizations to contribute to the realization of the SDGs by doing justice to their interdependency. 13

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