Yang Mei (PhD Candidate) studies startup workforce's psychological profiles and how they interact with key organizational-level cues, in particular money (capital-backed scaling) and mission (ventures with a social/environmental mission).
Yang Mei, Martin Obschonka, Yuval Engel, Kevin Curran, Lien De Cuyper
Jorge Sandoval (PhD Candidate) examines the socio-cognitive foundations of deep-tech innovation, focusing on how beliefs about technological feasibility, market attractiveness, and ecosystem dynamics shape innovation trajectories.
Jorge Sandoval
Ongoing
Getting Innovative Ideas Funded
Angelo Tomaselli studies how emotions and affective trajectories influence the crowdfunding of innovative entrepreneurial ideas, with Roja Ratzinger and Claudio Biscaro (Johannes Kepler University Linz).
Angelo Tomaselli
Ongoing
Using LLMs in Qualitative Research
Based on a review of 48 articles, Onajomo Akemu develops a framework for using and reporting LLM contributions to qualitative analysis while preserving interpretive integrity, with guidance for different research traditions.
Onajomo Akemu
Ongoing
How Accelerators Support Founder Learning amid Resource Scarcity
Onajomo Akemu studies technology venture accelerators in Kazakhstan to show how resource scarcity reshapes the way accelerators support founder learning.
Onajomo Akemu
Teaching and executive education
Current
Business Cases in New Technology (MScBA)
Onajomo Akemu teaches how businesses turn new technologies into business cases, combining the history of earlier technologies with guest lectures by startup founders and senior managers of technology companies.
Onajomo Akemu
Current
Digital Business (MBA)
Onajomo Akemu teaches the theory and practice of managing digital platforms, with contributions from startup founders, senior managers of technology companies and guest lecturers.
Onajomo Akemu
Current
The Entrepreneurial Individual (MSc Entrepreneurship)
Martin Obschonka teaches The Entrepreneurial Individual in the MSc Entrepreneurship.
Martin Obschonka
2022–2023
Business plan training, OrganoVIR and Gut Vibrations
Angelo Tomaselli trained early-stage researchers in two publicly funded European research and training programmes in entrepreneurship and business-plan writing, on turning scientific ideas into viable business opportunities.
Yuval Engel is one of five special issue editors of a special issue on the people who build startups alongside founders. Proposals are due 31 December 2026; editorial workshops follow in 2027.
Martin Obschonka is one of the special issue editors of an ongoing special issue of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice on the role of AI in entrepreneurship. The editors introduced it in a 2024 editorial.