The Entrepreneurship & Innovation section of the Amsterdam Business School (ABS) is looking for a PhD candidate for a research project about the impact of university-based incubation activities on the creation, growth, and performance of new startups and spinoffs as well their founders.

The main aim of this project is to study early investment in biotech entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the signals of quality the entrepreneur and the venture can send and especially on the effects of how the entrepreneur or venture are categorized, in terms of industry, technology, goal of the product etc. - or categorize themselves.

The research will combine insights from management science, especially entrepreneurship and innovation, with those from categorisation theory, both in management science and in sociology, and apply a broad range of quantitative techniques, from network analysis to machine learning (esp. to analyse texts and images).

This PhD project is part of the recently approved ORGANIVIR project, which is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network within the EU Horizon 2020 program.

The overall project is a collaboration between researchers from the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Poland and Denmark. The lead of the overall project is with the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam, most of these researchers are connected to (bio)medical departments who study innovative techniques and applications related to artificial organs; this subproject is the only one in management science.

The supervisors of this project will be Prof. Nachoem Wijnberg and Dr Balazs Szatmari.

According to EU rules for the Marie Curie programmes, the candidate needs to be a citizen of a EU country, but not of the Netherlands. Also, the candidate should not have been living in the Netherlands for more than a short period prior to the start of this project.

Besides the candidate should have:

• a Master’s degree in the area of management science, econometrics, economics, sociology, computer science, or a related discipline - we can also consider candidates with a master in medicine if they can show that they have a serious interest and background, having followed relevant courses and/or minors, in management science too;
• excellent grades and a strong interest in quantitative research methods and/or statistics and/or artificial intelligence and text anaysis, esp. machine learning;
• the drive to publish in top-level academic journals in management science;
• well-developed analytical skills, strong organization and communication skills, an entrepreneurial mind set, and perseverance;
• the ability to work independently and to be proactive in developing the research project, sometimes in collaboration with colleagues from other countries and faculties;
• mastery of both written and spoken English.

According to EU rules for the Marie Curie programmes, the candidate needs to be a citizen of a EU country, but not of the Netherlands. Also, the candidate should not have been living in the Netherlands for more than a short period prior to the start of this project.

Besides the candidate should have:

• a Master’s degree in the area of management science, econometrics, economics, sociology, computer science, or a related discipline - we can also consider candidates with a master in medicine if they can show that they have a serious interest and background, having followed relevant courses and/or minors, in management science too;
• excellent grades and a strong interest in quantitative research methods and/or statistics and/or artificial intelligence and text anaysis, esp. machine learning;
• the drive to publish in top-level academic journals in management science;
• well-developed analytical skills, strong organization and communication skills, an entrepreneurial mind set, and perseverance;
• the ability to work independently and to be proactive in developing the research project, sometimes in collaboration with colleagues from other countries and faculties;
• mastery of both written and spoken English.

University of Amsterdam

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Amsterdam Business School

The Amsterdam Business School (ABS) is part of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The FEB provides academic programmes for more than 5,500 students and employs about 400 people. ABS has a broad portfolio of outstanding teaching and research programmes and is characterised by its international focus, the strong ties to the city of Amsterdam and its focus on several key areas such as finance, entrepreneurship, business analytics/big data, data science & computer science and business & society/CSR.uva

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