Jonathan Schmidt is a PhD fellow at the Copenhagen Business School’s (CBS) Department of Organization and the Danish Architecture Centre (www.dac.dk). Jonathan holds a MSc in Economics & Business Administration from CBS, graduating with a thesis on the malleability of time in industrial production planning. Prior he worked for two years as executive assistant at DMG MORI, a tool machine manufacturer and gained insights into various other industries through internships, incl. strategy/ M&A advisory, automotive, development assistance and renewable energy.

PhD project
Jonathan’s PhD project “Engineering serendipity” follows the activities of BLOXHUB (www.bloxhub.org), a Copenhagen-based innovation space within ‘sustainable urbanization’, through a longitudinal ethnographic field study. Drawing on ‘events’ as unit of analysis, the project combines process and social network theoretical approaches to describe BLOXHUB’s role within processes of innovation. BLOXHUB operates a co-working space and a range of innovation activities to facilitate cross-industry innovation, bridging, e.g., architecture, construction, urban planning, and design.

In addition to his PhD project, Jonathan is part of a team building the BLOXHUB Science Forum, an Industrial Research Network that facilitates transdisciplinary research and collaboration across universities around ‘sustainable urbanization’ as a uniting theme.