Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Roles and Responsibilities
- Course Organizer "Doing Research for Business" (CMSE11538)
- Course Organizer "Family Business Management" (CMSE11579)
- Course Organizer "The Entrepreneurial Manager" (BUST10115)
- Research seminar organizer Entrepreneurship and Innovation group
Background
I came to Edinburgh to join the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group in the summer of 2022, after having spent several years working in other research and teaching capacities at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), and at Maastricht University (Netherlands).
I study entrepreneurial decision making in family firms, new ventures, and other types of privately-owned businesses, as I am fascinated by how seemingly disadvantaged players remain competitive through cycles of change.
Please feel invited to contact me in case you are interested in any of my activities, have a research idea that might be worth exploring together. I am interested in research questions at individual and firm level, and although I mostly use quantitative research methods myself, I do appreciate the complementarity of other forms of inquiry.
I am happy to consider PhD applications, but only from those prospective students with demonstrable interest in theory, and whose research ideas can contribute to our conceptual understanding of entrepreneurship irrespective of the context in which it occurs.
Research Interests
- Family business management
- Entrepreneurship
- Psychology of entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial cognition
- Research credibility
Research Video
Jasper Brinkerink discusses his research into how family businesses sustain their entrepreneurial spirit across generations, highlighting how children of family business owners can demonstrate entrepreneurial capital through early-career startup activities.