Professor of Business Administration specializing in Entrepreneurship

Job Summary

Vacant position, full professor of Business Administration with specialization in Entrepreneurship at Umeå School of Business, Economics, and Statistics at Umeå University (USBE). The position includes research and teaching in the field of entrepreneurship.

Position description and work tasks

The appointment involves leading research and developing the research environment within the field of entrepreneurship. This is achieved through own research as well as teaching and supervision, at first-, second-, and third-cycle levels. As a Professor at USBE, you will be expected to build further upon and develop local, national and international research projects being conducted in the department’s entrepreneurship section as well as to interact with the wider community. The department’s entrepreneurship section is mainly conducting research on innovation and entrepreneurial processes in business ecosystems, clusters and networks. Key themes include social innovation and sustainable entrepreneurship, coopetition capabilities, new venture creation, business incubators, and accelerators, internationalization, sustainable business models, and academic entrepreneurship.

The most important task for the professorship is to build and further develop the research environment and coordinate research in business administration with a focus on entrepreneurship.

Grading of Assessment Criteria

When grading the assessment criteria, scientific expertise shall be assigned the greatest importance. Great importance should also be given to pedagogical expertise. Added to that shall administrative expertise be assigned importance and also cooperative skills. The weighting will be based on the ability to fulfil the assessment criteria as described above.

In the assessment of scientific expertise, great importance shall be given to the research output during the last five-year period and the ability to obtain research funding in competition with other researchers. Further, a professor at USBE needs to be qualified as a scholarly academic in the schools’ quality system. In order to qualify as scholarly academic, among other intellectual contributions, a substantial number of publications are required in highly rated journals in the last five years. Questions around this are answered by the contact person as below.

In the assessment of pedagogical expertise, special importance shall be given to supervision of doctoral students and teaching in doctoral education.