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Vera Rocha
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Associate Professor in Economics and Management of #Innovation and #Entrepreneurship at Copenhagen Business School; Co-EiC
of Industry and Innovation
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🎾 Is using sports data in innovation and strategy research a winning strategy? Christoph Grimpe, Annamaria Conti, Jan Ross & Elisa Operti share the promises and pitfalls of using sports as a research context, based on their debate at the DRUID 2024 Conference. www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../13...
August 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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⁉️ Does Lean Startup represent a giant leap?

📝New Target Article by Christopher Tucci, Yuliya Snihur, Elena Novelli and Teppo Felin, based on their heated debate on this topic back at the 2023 DRUID Conference: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🤓Enjoy the reading!
March 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Come to Copenhagen Business School to do your PhD in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at CBS! 3-year fully-funded scholarships, a structured program, and a vibrant research community to support your PhD journey with the 2025 cohort starting in September. Apply before March 6, 2025.
PhD in Department of Strategy and Innovation | CBS - Copenhagen Business School
Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a number of vacant PhD scholarships (3-4) at the Department of Strategy and Innovation. Expected starting date is 1 September 2025.  The Department ...
www.cbs.dk
January 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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🥳The Industry and Innovation Best Paper Award for the year 2023 goes to... Julia Mazzei, Tommaso Rughi, & Maria Enrica Virgillito for their paper "Knowing brown and inventing green? Incremental and radical innovative activities in the automotive sector"! 👏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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A timely post from #ASQ editors about the impat of #GenAI on academic publishing. In short, if we seek the generatively easier road it will hurt the quality of organizational scholarship.

asqjournal.substack.com/p/the-human-...
January 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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🥇 It is now a tradition at Industry and Innovation to start the new year by looking back at the previous year and recognize our Best Reviewers! Here is a selection of the Best Reviewers of 2024 by our editorial board. Thank you all very much!
January 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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‼️ SUBMISSION DEADLINES APPROACHING ‼️
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📍 Special Issue on "Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Quest for Sustainable Transitions". Deadline: January 15 (think.taylorandfrancis.com/.../industry...)
January 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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🥳We are excited to kick-off 2025 with a Special Issue on “Leveraging Culture to Cultivate Green Innovation in Organizations and Institutional Fields”!
▶️ While posts on each paper will come up soon, you can start by reading the Editorial www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📖Happy reading!
January 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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🎓📖Graduated with a PhD in a field related to Technology and Innovation Management in 2023 or 2024? Submit your dissertation abstract by Feb 21 for the AOM TIM Best Dissertation Award! All details here: connect.aom.org/tim/discussi...
Discussion: View Thread - TIM
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 21, 2025The Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division of the Academy of Management is pleased to invite submiss
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December 27, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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✨ Our editorial team wishes everyone happy holidays, a restful break, and a great start into 2025! 💫 We'd like to thank everyone who has contributed to the development of the journal this past year. 🙏 We look forward to the initiatives, collaborations, and new content that 2025 will bring! 🎆
December 21, 2024 at 10:53 AM
❓ Do hiring strategies change in successive entrepreneurial stints?
📰 We study this question in a new paper recently published in Strategic Management Journal (joint work with Dario Pozzoli) and the answer is…
✅ Yes! The full paper can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/n)
December 4, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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⏳Working on a paper to be submitted to our Special Issue on "Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Quest for Sustainable Transitions"? The submission deadline has been extended to January 15! Read the full call for papers here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
November 26, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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The interview featuring the #BestPaper #Award of Industry & Innovation 2022 - "The architecture of innovation: how firms configure different types of complementarities in emerging ecosystems" - is out! Thank you @enriqueacebo.bsky.social for the excellent work! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 24, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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🔍 How do firms use organizational learning—vicarious & experiential—when innovating?

Findings from Seidle (SUBizSchool) reveal distinct learning patterns for high vs. low novelty innovations!

🔗 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 22, 2024 at 8:04 AM
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June 25-27
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025

www.druid.dk

DRUID has become one of the world's premier academic conferences on innovation and the dynamics of institutional and geographic change. DRUID invites scholars to contribute with a paper to DRUID25, hosted by Rotman School of Management.
November 16, 2024 at 10:36 AM
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🔍 How did COVID-19 relief impact creative industries long-term?

A new study in @indinno.bsky.social explores the unintended consequences for creative firms.

Key finding: Policy support now hampers recovery.

by Louis-Etienne Dubois & Emmanuel Bochud

doi.org/10.1080/1366...
November 4, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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🔍 How can incumbent firms drive cross-sectoral sustainability?

Discover insights from SSAB, LKAB, and Vattenfall’s pioneering "Hybrit" venture toward fossil-free steel in the latest Industry and Innovation study by Karltorp, Lu, & Perez Vico.

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1366...
November 7, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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🥇 New interview article featuring Soomi Kim's award-winning research on “Shortcuts to Innovation: The Use of Analogies in Knowledge Production”, winner of the #BestPaperAward at the 2024 DRUID conference! 🎊 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Thank you Leo Schmallenbach & Gianluca Biggi!
November 3, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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💡 Having a great idea for a dedicated Special Issue on an innovation-related topic? Here is our annual Call for Special Issue Proposals!
📨Make sure to assemble a diverse team of Guest Editors and send your proposals by January 31, 2025, using this form: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qts44...
October 28, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Excited to launch our New Paper Report! 🎉

This issue features research on AI, a proposed law for firm profit distribution, political shareholders, and customer improvisation in problem-solving.

Subscribe to our Substack for more insights! 📚
orgsci.substack.com/p/the-inaugu...
The Inaugural New Paper Report
Hi everyone!
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October 7, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Welcome to the team, Georg! 🎉🙌💪
🎉 We're thrilled that Georg Reischauer (WU Vienna & Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz) is joining us as an Associate Editor! Georg will support us w/ qualitative papers on:
◾ platforms, ecosystems, interfirm r-ships
◾ bus. model innovation
◾ green innov. & culture
◾ institutional theory
Welcome, Georg!🙌
August 25, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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Andrew Goodman-Bacon giving a master class on "New Developments in Difference-in-Differences" at Copenhagen Business School this morning. 📈📉#LEED2024
June 24, 2024 at 7:33 AM
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Entrepreneurship, Choice and Strategy - the first books have arrived in Cambridge!! 👏👏👏

📣 Reach out to us if you'd like a preview copy or you'd like to adopt for your classroom next Fall!

📣 More information here: seagull.wwnorton.com/Entrepreneur...
April 9, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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👋Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Quest for Sustainable Transitions”
⏰Submission deadline: December 15th, 2024
💻Check out all the details online: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
March 12, 2024 at 6:29 PM
❓ Most firms avoid hiring #refugees but what happens to the few that decide to employ them? In this study just out in Organization Science, w/ Grazia Santangelo and Wolfgang Sofka, we explain why hiring refugees can lead to profitability gains for employers. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
February 25, 2024 at 8:57 AM