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Jonas Gabrielsson
Academic background
My name is Jonas Gabrielsson and I have a position as Associate Professor at CIRCLE. My disciplinary background is Business Administration and during my undergraduate and graduate studies I focused on strategic marketing for my bachelor degree and the management of strategic change for my master degree.
I have my PhD degree in Business Administration from the School of Economics and Management, Lund University. The defense of my dissertation was in 2003. After this, I worked with research and teaching for about two years in the Institute of Innovation and Economic Organization at the Norwegian School of Management and at the School of Business and Engineering at Halmstad University. After its inception, I joined CIRCLE as an Assistant Professor in 2005. Thereafter I received a position as Associate Professor in 2007.
Teaching
I am currently teaching in courses at LTH and the School of Economics and Management, primarily in subjects related to entrepreneurship and innovation. I am also sometimes supervising students on their bachelor and master theses.
Research
Most of my time is devoted to various research projects. In my research I have primarily been driven by a general interest in processes of renewal and change. This interest has led me to read and relate to literature and research on entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. Most of my ongoing research projects can be related to the following topical areas:
Corporate governance: The governance system of a corporation ultimately determines its direction and performance as it both influence how critical resources are acquired, controlled and deployed and how conflicts are dealt with between various coalitions of resource providers who have potentially divergent goals. My research within this area is primarily conducted from an entrepreneurial and strategic management perspective, which can be put in contrast to the financial economics oriented approaches that traditionally dominate this stream of research. In my research I am especially interested in how the governance of an enterprise influences value creation, strategic renewal and innovation. I am also interested in the relation and interaction between the governance system of the corporation and the broader innovation system in which the corporation is embedded.
Academic entrepreneurship and research commercialization: Universities are today seen as important engines of innovation and economic growth and they are increasingly taking technology transfer and commercialization of research as a part of their explicit mission. In my research within this area I have primarily been interested in the attitudes and norms towards academic entrepreneurship among faculty members as well as the factors that may influence the likelihood that faculty members discovers commercial potential in their research. I have also an interest in the startup and early development of university spin-offs (USOs) and how their competitive strategies and activities can be related back to the underlying resource base of the USO and its formal and informal links with the university.
Inventors, patents and entrepreneurship: Despite that the importance of patented inventions often are emphasized in innovation studies there is surprisingly little attention to the actual inventors behind the patented inventions. In my research within this area I am particularly interested in the characteristics and behaviors of inventors and their decisions about how to patent and exploit the invention. I have also a general interest in the relationship between patents and entrepreneurship, for example how often new patents lead to new firms and to what extent inventors are involved in commercializing patents.
Learning and competence building in relation to entrepreneurship: It is often emphasized that the capacity to learn and develop an entrepreneurial mindset is a key challenge for the workforce in the 21st century. In my research within this area I am particularly interested in how individuals may develop a capacity for engaging in entrepreneurship throughout their life and work and how different kind of career experiences influence this process. I have also a general interest in the study of different approaches to organize enterprise education that aim to promote an entrepreneurial mindset among students.
Recent publications
Some recent publications from 2010 follow below. For a full overview please see my CV.
Gabrielsson, J. & Huse, M. (2010) Governance theory: Origins and implications for researching boards and governance in entrepreneurial firms, chapter in Landström, H. & Lohrke, F. (eds.) The Historical Foundations of Entrepreneurship Research, Edvard Elgar Publishing, London.
Gabrielsson, J., Tell, J. & Politis, D. (2010) Business simulation exercises in small business management education: Using principles and ideas from action learning, Action Learning: Research and Practice, 7(1): 3-16.
Last modified 16 Feb 2012
