Role of your company in terms of innovation and the start-up ecosystem

Innovation and entrepreneurship

Thesis project description

We are interested in researching how is your company involved in the startup ecosystem.

In case you are a startup, we are curious to hear about your journey and look into your past or current challenges and how can we use theory in innovation and entrepreneurship to develop a framework for solving the challenges.

In case you are an established company, we would like to hear about how you engage with innovation, internally or externally.

In case you are an incubator, accelerator or innovation management company, we would be interested in researching your challenges and processes and how can they be resolved or optimized.

Managerial value of the research

We would like to look into the current processes and see how they can be made more efficient. We are open to looking into specific areas that you might have problems with and using theory to create a framework you could implement.

Research topic motivation

We are studying Master's in Organizational Innovation and Entrepreneurship at CBS and we have learnt a lot about companies, startups and ecosystems they are in. We are looking forward to applying our knowledge to a case study and bringing the theory to practice.

Why collaborate with us

From the team perspective, we have experience working together on projects during our Master's degree. We have had courses about design thinking, innovation and prototyping, which we believe are useful for the co-creation process between companies and startups. Moreover, we can use our experience from a Study Trip in Silicon Valley, which we have been to this summer, that gave us insight into how important it is to foster innovation and how crucial the startup ecosystem is.

We also have experience from both the startup and corporate world as we have been working on our startup and we also have student positions in tech corporates.