Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Roles and Responsibilities
- Programme Director MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Course Organiser "Family Business Management" (CMSE11579)
- Course Organiser "Doing Research for Business" (CMSE11538)
- Seminar organiser Entrepreneurship and Innovation subject group
Background
Jasper Brinkerink is Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Edinburgh Business School. His research centres on entrepreneurship in family businesses, with a particular focus on how founders, owners, and next-generation members identify and develop entrepreneurial opportunities, navigate generational transitions, and communicate during periods of change and succession.
His work has been published in leading journals in the field, including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Family Business Review.
Alongside his academic work, he regularly engages with family businesses and advisors on topics such as succession, next-generation involvement, and intergenerational communication. He welcomes opportunities for knowledge exchange and collaboration with members of the family business community in Scotland and beyond.
Before joining the University of Edinburgh in 2022, he held research and teaching positions at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) and Maastricht University (Netherlands), where he completed his PhD. He collaborates internationally with scholars working on family enterprise, entrepreneurial cognition, and next-generation entrepreneurship.
At the University of Edinburgh Business School, Jasper teaches across programmes in entrepreneurship, family business, and research methods, and is the Programme Director of the MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He welcomes PhD applications related to family business and entrepreneurship, particularly projects that seek to advance broader conceptual understandings of entrepreneurial processes and behaviour.
Research Interests
- Family business
- Entrepreneurship
- Research practices
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.