Entrepreneurship

Our research bases on a process perspective on entrepreneurship and focuses on creating, identifying, evaluating, and exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities. Further, it is theory-driven, evidence-based, and published in high-ranked scientific entrepreneurship and management journals. We cooperate with leading experts of the research field and provide key implications for students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and companies.

Based on an entrepreneurial decision-making perspective, our center does research on Entrepreneurial Finance, Entrepreneurial Strategy, Experimental Entrepreneurship, Technology Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, and Corporate Entrepreneurship. At this, we maintain manifold co-operations with international leading business schools, universities, and technical universities.

Currently running Swiss National Science Foundation research projects in collaborations with our partners are:

• Bridging the Scale-up Funding Gap: The Design, Attractiveness, and Outcomes of Junior Stock Exchange Markets, Petrit Ademi, Dietmar Grichnik
• Closing the funding gap for entrepreneurs with disabilities with the help of cognitive science, Silvia Stroe, Charlotta Sirén
• Investigating Informal Entrepreneurship in Indian Slums with Satellite Data, Charlotta Sirén, Amaresh Dubey
• Corporate Pivoting: The Capabilities Needed and Consequences for Long-Term Survival, Joakim Wincent

Building on our research insights, we teach entrepreneurial thinking and promote entrepreneurial action. We base our work on international standards in research and education, further the state-of-the-art in the research domain, and foster start-ups at the University of St.Gallen. Through our ongoing cooperations with practitioners, we refer to the entrepreneurial reality in all fields of activities.