After completing my PhD at the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation at Ecole des Mines in Paris, I joined the IOA department at Copenhagen Business School in February 2010. I am pursuing three main lines of research. First, I examine entrepreneurship as a distributed and emergent process which is driven by partnerships that enact opportunities. Second, I investigate the role that valuation devices, such as models, demonstrations and formulae, play in the initiation and coordination of explorative partnerships. Third, building on survey data collected as part of the European project PICO, we study how academic spin-offs may foster the innovative performance of the firms with which they partner. In my post-doc project, I further develop my exploration of entrepreneurship as a process that is distributed across heterogeneous actors and equipped with specific valuation devices, through a case study of the clean-tech corporate venture unit set up by a leading Danish manufacturer.

What do business models do? Innovation devices in technology entrepreneurship (with M. Eyquem-Renault). Research Policy, 2009, vol. 38, issue 10, pp. 1559-1570

Entrepreneurship as a process of collective exploration. CSI Working papers series, 2009, n° 017

The impact of ambidextrous alliances on innovation (with M. Colombo, E. Piva, D. D’Adda, P. Mustar). Paper presented at the AOM (August 2010), DIME (April 2010) and DRUID (June 2009) conferences

Faire valoir l’exploration collective. Dynamiques, instruments et résultats des partenariats avec des spin-offs académiques. [Valuing collective exploration. Dynamics, instruments and outcomes of partnerships with academic spin-offs.]
PhD thesis, Ecole des Mines de Paris, June 2010