Professor in Psychology of Entrepreneurship at Technical University of Denmark

Psychology plays a crucial role in entrepreneurship, offering significant benefits to all stages of the entrepreneurial journey. Psychology also plays a key role in building entrepreneurial communities (such as at universities), and in how such communities come to benefit society as a whole. For better education, integrating psychology into entrepreneurship programs enriches the curriculum – and provides more qualified entrepreneurial students. In a broader context, psychology also enables students in general to be more efficient in bringing innovative solutions to success. This professorship therefore seeks to strengthen the centre’s position as an international leader in entrepreneurship, both in the academic as well as in the practice arena, and DTU’s role overall as the university of innovation. 

Responsibilities

We are looking for an excellent scholar to join and play a leading role in the Centre for Technology Entrepreneurship. As a qualified candidate, you are expected to have shown excellence in research, teaching, and service (within the university and to the international academic community). Examples of this comprise development of new entrepreneurship educational programs, dissemination and teaching at executive level, organizing international workshops or conferences. Ideally, you have demonstrated exceptional results related to the areas listed below: 

• Psychology of Entrepreneurship
• Mental Health
• Nascent Entrepreneurship
• New Venture Teams
• Inclusive Entrepreneurship 

You have a passion for education development within entrepreneurship and will closely collaborate with peers from the Centre of Technology Entrepreneurship, and other national and international research groups. You are expected to establish and strengthen collaboration with national and international groups working in the above areas. You are taking the lead in the joint efforts in actively seeking external funding from national, EU and international funding bodies in entrepreneurship and related areas. 

You will be responsible for teaching and planning multiple courses, within technology entrepreneurship including the MSc in Technology Entrepreneurship.

As a part of your key responsibilities, you will: 

• Contribute to meaningful education for the Centre
• Publish impactful work in leading journals and conferences in the field
• Disseminate knowledge to a broader audience outside of academia (including executive MBA)
• Secure funding for your research area
• Teach, guide, and supervise BSc and MSc student projects, as well as supervise PhD students
• Contribute to existing courses in the MSc Technology Entrepreneurship study program and develop and contribute to executive teaching offers
• Active team player (together with members of other research groups in innovation and corporate entrepreneurship, technology entrepreneurship and design, economics of innovation and entrepreneurship and in sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation) in the continuous development and growth of the centre within education, research and outreach 

Application procedure