Deadline: May 15th, 2010 at 12.00 noon.

Postdoc in Quantitative Entrepreneurship

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a vacant postdoc position in Quantitative Entrepreneurship. The successful individual will join an existing team of researchers studying markets for technology, innovation and opportunity search, labour mobility, and entrepreneurship. The applicant is expected to integrate into an existing project studying dispositional and contextual drivers of entrepreneurship, using survey data combined with longitudinal labour market data. Event history analysis, selection models, and comparative analysis are among the research tools the postdoc will be likely to employ.

The Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics has a broad research profile. Among other research topics, the department investigates drivers of innovation, intellectual property rights and appropriability strategies, labor mobility and knowledge creation, contextual and dispositional drivers of transitions to self-employment, and performance of newly established ventures. Both qualitative and quantitative research is being conducted. It is the aim of the department to publish in the most influential and prestigious journals in Management and Economics.

The postdoc is a non-tenured position for a 2-year period with research obligation.

To fulfil the research requirements of the position, the applicant chosen is expected to be physically present, and actively participate in, the teaching and research activities of the department.

Further info at: http://www.cbs.dk/om_cbs_campus/jobs_paa_cbs/ledige_jobs/jobs_paa_cbs/ledige_videnskabelige_stillinger/vip_56_postdoc_in_quantitative_entrepreneurship