Visiting Senior Researchers

Dr. Katharina Fellnhofer is currently a visiting senior researcher at the Chair of Entrepreneurship and a docent at the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. She holds a PhD in Social and Economic Sciences from the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Prior to joining ETHZ, she was a research fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Additionally, she is the owner of the Austrian SME Research and Innovation Management GmbH, which is engaged in interdisciplinary European research and innovation projects (e.g. HORIZON2020 projects). As a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on assessing the investment potential of SMEs, she was engaged in boosting the investment readiness of innovative SMEs in Europe.

Research interests: entrepreneurial intuition, entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, entrepreneurial alertness, entrepreneurial passion, smart specialisation

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