The entrepreneurship & innovation phase of the university of amsterdam enterprise school is searching out a phd candidate for a studies undertaking approximately the effect of university-based totally incubation applications on the creation, increase, and performance of commercial enterprise spinoffs, in addition to their founders.
Challenge Description
The goal of this venture is to look at how different forms of incubation activities make a contribution to the a success introduction and boom of commercial enterprise spin-offs initiated by university professors, researchers, or college students. incubation sports consist of physical incubation areas, and any form of assisting incubation and acceleration applications.
college incubation and acceleration sports are an crucial driving force of innovation and new commercial enterprise advent. the university of Amsterdam, specifically through its incubator ace task lab, has played an vital role within the beginning and increase of some of startups and spin-offs inclusive of scoffer, lumicks, and metrica-sports activities.
the purpose of this mission is to increase theoretical and realistic insights about which incubation activities provided through universities lead to the a success creation, increase, and overall performance of new startups and spinoffs. particularly, we're interested by the effects of man or woman, team, and incubator-level traits.
this challenge is a collaboration with innovation alternate amsterdam (ixa): the professional interface among amsterdam-based totally educational institutions and events interested by their research findings and know-how, such as corporations, instructional institutions, buyers, entrepreneurs, government our bodies and societal companies.
you'll expand, plan, and execute clinical studies and normally paintings in collaboration with, and underneath supervision of, dr. joris ebbers and dr. yuval engel.
Requirements
• Master degree in business, econometric, economics, data science, or a related social science discipline;
• excellent grades and a strong interest in quantitative research methods and/or statistics;
• drive to publish in top-level academic journals in management and business science;
• analytical, organization and communication skills;
• ability to work independently and to be proactive in developing the research project;
• mastery of both written and spoken English;
• mastery of the Dutch language is an advantage but not a necessity;
• entrepreneurial mind set and perseverance.
About the Amsterdam Business School
The Amsterdam Business School (ABS) is one of the two schools of the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Economics and Business. The ABS has almost 3,000 students and the equivalent of 120 full-time academic staff. The school’s core subjects are Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurship, and Big Data / Business Analytics. Six sections (Accounting, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Finance, Leadership & Management, International Strategy & Marketing, and Operations Management) conduct top-level research published in prestigious international journals. They also provide various degree programmes including a BSc programme and six MSc programmes, a wide range of post-doctoral programmes featuring three MBAs, four accountancy programmes and Lean Six Sigma programmes, as well as an extensive portfolio of open courses and in-company projects.
Appointment
You will be appointed for an initial period of 18 months with a possibility to extend it for another 2,5 years, pending positive evaluation. As part of your contract, you will spend 20% of your time on teaching. You will be classified as PhD candidate (promovendus) in the Dutch University job-ranking system (UFO), providing a gross monthly starting salary of €2.191 in the first year (which increases to €2.801 in the final year) with an additional end-of-year bonus (8.3%) and holiday allowance (8%), in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.
Preferred starting date is 1 September 2017.
Job application
Applications should be made via applications-feb@uva.nl. Please include job reference number 17-140. Applicants should send a letter of application accompanied by a curriculum vitae. In addition, applicants should include a copy of their Master thesis. Applicants currently studying for a Master should include a short description of their thesis project (max. 2 pages) and a copy of their Bachelor thesis.
The closing date is 15 May 2017.
No agencies please
Further information:
Dr. Joris Ebbers
j.j.ebbers@uva.nl
