PhD in Department of Strategy and Innovation

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The Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI) invites applications for two PhD stipends in relation to an initiative from the CBS Dean of Research, Innovation, and Societal Impact to form a cohort of researchers working at the intersection of research, innovation, and societal engagement. The initiative will contribute to activities at Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship (CSE) that connect research, entrepreneurship, and business building in practice. SI prioritizes projects that can be grounded in ongoing SI research streams on entrepreneurship and business building and scaling, including topics such as corporate venturing and impact investing by venture capitalists. Projects may examine innovation, managerial professionalization, and the building of organization in startups, fast-growing scaleups, established firms, or entrepreneurial ecosystems, and should combine academic excellence with relevance for practice — including through innovative formats of dissemination and co-creation with industry. Proposals must address the project’s prospective interactions with CSE activities, for instance in terms of dissemination of project results to CSE stakeholders and/or CSE as a research context or a source of data/interviews. The expected start date is February 1, 2027, or earlier. Application deadline: September 28, 2026. About Department of Strategy and Innovation The Department of Strategy and Innovation’s (SI) research is focused on strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship and international business. The department aims to host a high-quality environment for research and teaching within the broad area of strategy. The department’s research is generally cross-disciplinary. Faculty members have backgrounds in management, economics, sociology and economic geography. The theoretical foundation for research in these areas is eclectic, combining strategy, innovation, and/or internationalization theory with insights from economics, sociology, psychology, and economic geography. The department has 45 faculty members (professors, associate professors, tenure track assistant professors), 7 administrative staff, and 30 members of staff who are hired on temporary contracts as research assistants, post docs or PhD students. The department puts substantial emphasis on the solid application of scientific research method. The department has a pluralistic approach to research methods that includes, for example, formal theoretical models, quantitative empirical methods such as (lab and field) experiments, econometric applications to register data or survey data, as well as qualitative research methods. PhD project proposals should be based on coherent theoretical arguments and contain well-informed methodological considerations. To find out more about the department please go to https://www.cbs.dk/si.&nbsp ; A particular quality of the department is in the use of empirical methods on large-scale microdata sets, in particular the comprehensive Danish micro-data, but other sources like lab and field experiments or other types of primary data like own surveys and secondary data collected by third parties can also be used. About the PhD program The three-year PhD program at CBS allows you to conduct research under the supervision of CBS professors, supported by research training courses. The program is highly international, and you are expected to participate in international research conferences and to spend time abroad as a visiting PhD student. The PhD student will be enrolled in the CBS PhD School. The selected candidates will participate in the SI PhD cohort, which is a formal research-training program. This includes a package of foundational courses within the main SI research areas and methods courses (econometrics, experiments and qualitative methods). CBS PhD graduates are held in high esteem not only in academia and research institutions but also in government and business where their research qualifications are increasingly demanded. Rec