Chair / Junior Professorship forInternational Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship can be understood as a process of identifying, evaluating and exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities. Consequently the question how entrepreneurial opportunities arise should be at the heart of entrepreneurship research and teaching.

At the chair of international entrepreneurship we believe that cultural, economic, institutional and political differences among national contexts function as important sources of entrepreneurial opportunities. Hence, the awareness and understanding of the relevance of cross-country differences for opportunity emergence allows individuals to identify entrepreneurial opportunities more effectively and to increase the likelihood to engage in entrepreneurial action.

And we will be even more dependent on Technology and Operations Management in the coming future. We are facing an unstable global business environment and fierce international competitions, and above all, a home running out of its resources to sustain life. New technologies (such as green energy resources, big data analytics, autonomous vehicles, etc.) and novel operational strategies (such as cleaner production, green logistics, reverse supply chain management, etc.) would be the key to our sustainable development.

We therefore see our mission not only in conducting state of the art research on international entrepreneurship but also in inspiring students with the vision inherent in international entrepreneurship, to heighten their awareness of the entrepreneurial chances resulting from their various backgrounds and international experiences. The chair profits from its perfect location at ESCP, a university with internationality in its DNA as well as from the close collaboration with the European Jean-Baptiste Say Institute of Entrepreneurship.

- Junior Professor Dr. Matthias Mrożewski