Chair for International Entrepreneurship
Chair 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.
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 ESCP Innovation and Entrepreneurial Transformation Institute - Say Institute.
- Prof. Dr. Matthias Mrożewski
Teaching
We offer the following courses:
Master in
Management(ACADMIC DIRECTOR OF OPTION E BERLIN)
- Theory of Entrepreneurship (Option E Berlin)
- Entrepreneurial Execution (Option E Berlin)
- Entrepreneurial Accounting & Financial Planning (Option E Berlin)
MSC in
Sustainability Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Sustainable Lifestyle Venturing
Executive Master in
Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership (EMDIEL)
- Project Incubation
Research
Research approach
At the chair of international entrepreneurship we are researching entrepreneurship and innovation using quantitative as well as experimental methods. By applying both micro and macro perspectives on entrepreneurship we not only analyse entrepreneurial individuals and firms but also focus on the differences in entrepreneurial cultures and innovativeness levels across regions and countries.
Research topics
The chair’s research focus can be divided into three main areas:
1 Entrepreneurial decision-making
Entrepreneurial decision-making is important in every stage of the entrepreneurial process consisting of opportunity identification, evaluation and exploitation stages.
We foremost focus on the first two stages and analyse individual-level (e.g. attitude) as well as external drivers (e.g. market competition) of entrepreneurial decisions taken in the identification as well as evaluation stage.
2 Migration, culture and entrepreneurship
We analyse the role of a migration background and more specifically the cultural distance between a migrant’s home country and his/her host country on the ability to identify entrepreneurial opportunities.
3 Regional and country-level entrepreneurship and innovation
Since the work of Schumpeter, entrepreneurship has been regarded as a concept that is in close relation to innovation. However, recent country level investigations show that technology innovation and new business creation can be regarded as two separate phenomena.
Our research investigates the influence of of entrepreneurship on country-level innovation, and furthermore, pays particular attention to the role of entrepreneurial opportunities available.
Publications
Find an overview
Journal Article
2017
Entrepreneurship and country-level innovation: investigating the role of entrepreneurial opportunities
JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, 2017, vol. 42(5), pp. 1125–1142
Chapter
2016
TU Berlin – an entrepreneurial university in an entrepreneurial city
in Academic Spin-Offs and Technology Transfer in Europe: Best Practices and Breakthrough Models., Sven H. De Cleyn and Gunter Festel Ed., Edward Elgar, pp. 65–74, 2016
Other contribution
2014
An Empirical Analysis of Economic and Socio-Demographic Determinants of Entrepreneurship across German Regions
2014, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS
Chapter
2011
The Impact of Technology-oriented University Start-Ups on Regional Development: The Case of the Technical University Berlin
in Advances in Sustainable Manufacturing., Seliger, G., Khraisheh, Marwan M.K., Jawahir, I.S. Eds, Springer, 2011
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