Team Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship, understood as the recognition and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities, is a key driver of economic growth, social change and technological progress. The Entrepreneurship research area at ifm Mannheim is concerned with the person of the company founder and the founding team(Entrepreneurs and Teams), with the entrepreneurial project and the developing organisation (Entrepreneurial Organisations) as well as with the entrepreneurial environment in which the person and the project are embedded(Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Innovations).

Research focus

Entrepreneure and Teams
  • Human capital
  • Personal behaviour
  • Teams and dynamics
  • Microsocial environment
Entrepreneurial organisations
  • Business models
  • Company growth and scalability
  • Innovation and technology transfer
  • Intrapreneurship
Ecosystems and innovations
  • Networks and clusters
  • Funding and financing structures
  • Entrepreneurship Eduction and start-up counselling
  • Technology transfer

Mannheim Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (MCEI)

The MCEI (Mannheim Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation) is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental centre for entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Mannheim. MCEI offers a special platform for young entrepreneurs, potential founders, students, sponsors and investors.

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Contact person

Dr. Nora Zybura

Dr. Nora Zybura

Contact person for startups
Transferbeauftragte
Team: Entrepreneurship
University of Mannheim
MCEI/ Institute for SME Research and Entrepreneurship
Schloss, Ehrenhof Ost – Room EO 271
68161 Mannheim