Postdoctoral researchers
Get to know our Postdoctoral researchers
Project/Research aims
Entrepreneurship is considered a vital economic development and growth source in today's knowledge-based economy. Policies at multiple levels have fueled a growing ecosystem of organisations that design and offer coordinated programs to instigate and accelerate new venture creation. Universities are vital contributors to entrepreneurial ecosystems and offer a fertile ground for knowledge-based entrepreneurship. A vital component in university-based entrepreneurship ecosystems is action-based venture creation programs. Research suggests that entrepreneurship graduates are more likely to start new businesses and have stronger entrepreneurial intentions than other graduates. Moreover, those starting businesses are often located near their home universities reaping benefits from co-location, economies of scale and scope, and knowledge spillover. However, despite a growing stream of research, there is little knowledge about the role and contribution of entrepreneurship graduates in this setting. Therefore, my research aims to:
- Explore the activities and interactions through which entrepreneurship graduates, engage in university-based entrepreneurial ecosystems.
- Identify what characterizes entrepreneurship graduates’ interactions and behaviours within their entrepreneurial ecosystem.
We examine the role of ownership in c-level management and its influence on financing and company success in new forms of financing such as through Initial Coin Offering (ICO). By doing so, we examine a wide variety of influences such as skills, education and experience of the managers or the region, industry and communication strategy of the companies for their effect on short-term financing and long-term corporate success. We attach great importance to an excellent and extensive data basis in order to obtain results with a high level of significance, to contribute not only to research but also to practice and policy.
Globalization of innovation activities is a major topic in the business and academic communities, and large companies play a crucial role in the creation and diffusion of new technologies. We explore the activities performed abroad and in Sweden by a sample of multinational companies and their subsidiaries, and the relative importance of Sweden in their global innovation networks. We compile a data set on 200 plus domestic and foreign-owned companies headquartered in Sweden, gathering information from annual reports and patent data. Exploring the worldwide geographical distribution of their patenting activities, we observe the implementation of heterogeneous strategies. While a group of companies still maintain Sweden as the main centre for innovation, other companies construct multiple knowledge generation networks across the world.
During my postdoc at Sten K Jonson Center for Entrepreneurship I am working on entrepreneurship ecosystems and institutions. Adopting institutional perspective to this topic means investigating the rules according to which organizations of the ecosystem and companies behave. What are the rules of the game that guide their behavior and once we know them, how do these impact the dynamics of entrepreneurship ecosystem. The aim of the research is to understand which kind of rules we can promote so as to strengthen certain types of entrepreneurship ecosystems, what kind of rules are deeply embedded in the environment and what about those that arrive at “faster speed”.
