About

_{Facts about the Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship}

The donation covers funding for the Chair, PhD and postdoctoral positions at CBS as well as support for research activities. The donation will run until 2028 at which point the area will become an integrated part of CBS with a number of tenured positions.

Professor José Mata is the current holder of the Chair. José Mata’s research focuses on the dynamics of firms and markets. He has studied the processes by which new venture firms are created and enter new markets, how they grow and eventually exit. José has studied these topics both in a domestic as well as in an international context and he has recently began studying entrepreneurship by immigrants.

_{Research under the Chair}

The focus of the research program of the Chair is to understand the origins of entrepreneurial organizations, their strategies and their implications for the organizations and society.

The program investigates topics such as: What leads individuals to create new ventures? What makes some existing organizations more entrepreneurial than others? Which strategies do people and organizations adopt to become entrepreneurial? What are the implications of the strategies adopted for the success of the ventures? What are the implications of the presence of such organizations for society?

A diverse set of factors are considered to answer the questions above, in particular: The contribution of abilities/capabilities for entrepreneurship and the extent to which these are innate and how they are developed; the geographical origins of people and organizations and their impact upon entrepreneurship, namely the forces affecting the creation of new ventures abroad and entrepreneurship by immigrants; the constraints affecting entrepreneurial organizations and the strategies followed by them to engage resources in their ventures, namely in terms of mobilizing funds, but also employees, and founding and managerial teams.

The analysis relies mostly on empirical methods, namely on the analysis of large-scale microdata sets, in particular the excellent Danish micro-data; experiments, both in the laboratory and the field; other types of primary data like own surveys and of secondary data collected by third parties.