Overview of potential speakers and participants

Schwab, A., & Zhang, Z. (2019). A new methodological frontier in entrepreneurship research: Big data studies. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 43(5), 843–854. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258718760841

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship

Texas Christian University

CEO

Merantix

START

Assistant Professor

Works on female entrepreneurs and how they interact with financieers

Cherry Ventures

START

Partner at DCVC and Author of "Super Founders”

DCVC

Wrote book on his work building a database over 20 years and drawing implications whether patterns for successful start-ups exist

Ali Tamaseb - Publications

Professor of Organizational Behavior

Stanford University, US

Goldberg, A. (2015). In defense of forensic social science. Big Data & Society, 2(2), 1–3. https://doi.org/ 10.1177/2053951715601145

Principal

Earlybird

Did PhD with Prof. Braun at TUM

PROFESSOR EMERITUS Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship

University of Minnesota

corporate and organizational relationships; managing innovation; organization theory (92.000 citatations)

Founder & CEO

FlixBus

Entrepreneurial Finance

TUM

Anderson Clayton Professor of Business Administration Associate Professor

Texas A&M University

Often cited paper on New Venture Teams

Klotz, A. C., Hmieleski, K. M., Bradley, B. H., & Busenitz, L. W. (2014). New Venture Teams: A Review of the Literature and Roadmap for Future Research. Journal of Management, 40(1), 226–255. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206313493325

Professor of Psychology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US

Recommended by Levenson, due to recent publication on positivity in relationships “Positivity resonance in long-term married couples: Multimodal characteristics and consequences for health and longevity (JPSP)”

Curriculum Vitae (unc.edu)

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FDP

Forum

Barnes, C. M., Dang, C., Leavitt, K., Guarana, C., & Uhlmann, E. L. (2016). Archival data in micro organizational research: A toolkit for moving to a broader set of topics. Journal of Management, doi: 10.1177/0149206315604188

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Babson College, US

CJH

Multiple

Self-employed

Famous within German Media

Carsten Maschmeyer - Publications

Co-Founder & Advisory Board Member

innosabi

Associate Professor of Management

HSG St. Gallen

focuses on blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, and he previously worked on the economics of equity crowdfunding and startup growth, and the economics of scientific collaboration - 1300 citatations

Founder of the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab, and a Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School.

MIT Sloan

blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, and he previously worked on the economics of equity crowdfunding and startup growth, and the economics of scientific collaboration - 7000 citatations

CEO

Dieffenbacher GmbH

General Partner

Headline

Was at TUM. Gave interview on AI (called Eva) that is being used by Headline → Source: Diese Investoren lassen eine KI nach neuen Unicorns suchen - Business Insider

Partner

Headline

Well known investors; Headline uses lots of ML/AI in their funnel process

Professor of Psychology

University Jena, Germany

German researcher who also gave interview for Spiegel; Multiple publications in the area over the past years

Dr. Christine Finn - Publications

Retorio

AI pictures personality

Antler

START

Chalmers, D., MacKenzie, N.G., Carter, S. (2020). Artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship: implications for venture creation in the fourth industrial revolution. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Special Issue , pp.1–26. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720934581 .

Professor of Organizational Behavior

Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands

Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour

London Business School, UK

Lots of literature on female entrepreneurs

Kanze, D., Huang, L., Conley, M., Higgins, E.T. (2017). Male and female entrepreneurs get asked different questions by VCs — and it affects how much funding they get. Harvard Business Review , 27 June.Kanze, D., Huang, L., Conley, M. A., & Higgins, E. T. (2018). We ask men to win and women not to lose: Closing the gender gap in startup funding. Academy of Management Journal , 61 (2), 586–614.Kanze, D., Conley, M.A., Okimoto, T.G., Phillips, D.J., Merluzzi, J. (2020). Evidence that investors penalize female founders for lack of industry fit. Sci. Adv ., 6,  eabd7664.

founding executive director of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Platform, Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School

Babson College/Harvard/Columbia

pioneer in the concept and development of entrepreneurship ecosystems, and he launched and directs Manizales-Mas and many other Scale Up ecosystems around the world

Founder & Chief Organizational Plumber

FlixBus

Founder & Managing Director

EWOR

Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship

Columbia Business School, US

Distinguished Professor and the Ameritech Chair of Economic Development

Indiana University

research has focused on the links between entrepreneurship, government policy, innovation, economic development, and global competitiveness (108.000 citations)

Professor of Entrepreneurship

University of Notre Dame, US

Well known scholar in teams area

Shepherd, D. A., Souitaris, V., & Gruber, M. (2021). Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda. Journal of Management, 47(1), 11–42.

Ordentlicher Professor für Entrepreneurship und Technologiemanagement

HSG St. Gallen

Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Finance, Decision-Making, Strategic Entrepreneurship, Technology Entrepreneurship, Start-up Management, Nascent Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship - 3.800 citatations

Distinguished Professor of Psychology

University of North Carolina

Professional interests on (a) intimate, committed relationships such as marriage, (b) psychotherapy from a cognitive-behavioral perspective, and (c) the integration of the two areas

Research | Donald H. Baucom, Ph.D. (unc.edu); Baucom, Donald | SpringerLink

Geschäftsführer

High-Tech Gründerfond

Founder

Auxxo

START

Business Angels Netzwerk

Professor Dries Faems | WHU Executive Education

WHU

research focuses on collaboration for innovation. In particular, he studies how alliance activities influence firms´ innovation and financial performance and how firms can effectively manage different types of open innovation strategies. (6.300 citations)

Founder

Bitbanda

Dean and Professor of Economics

Utrecht University

one of the leading researchers in the field of corporate ecosystems and the economic effect of entrepreneurship (11.000 citations)

UnternehmerTUM

Professor of Psychology

Northwestern University

Researcher on relationships with more focus towards families and abuse

Erika Lawrence - Publications

Professor in Technology Venturing and Entrepreneurship

London Business School, UK

conducted pioneering research in the areas of comparative entrepreneurship, international entrepreneurship, innovation ecosystems, entrepreneurial ecosystems, business model innovation, and digital transformation (45.000 citations)

Assistant Professor

Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

deMol, E., Khapova, S. N., & Elfring, T. (2015). Entrepreneurial team cognition: A review. International Journal ofManagement Reviews,17(2), 232–255. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12055

Oswald, F. L., Behrend, T. S., Putka, D. J., & Sinar, E. (2017). Big data in Industrial-Organizational psychology and human resource management: Forward progress for organizational research and practice. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 7(1), 505–533. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032117-104553

CEO

Kienbaum

Founder

GoStudent

Partner

PICUS Capital

—> Eva Meyer had contact

Multiple

Self-employed

Via Lena Heßbrügge as contact person

Frank Thelen - Publications

Bundesverband Deutscher Startups

American author and radio talk show host. Chapman is most noted for his The Five Love Languages series regarding human relationships.

Gary Chapman - Publications

Professor of Management

Georgetown University

Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and purpose, growth business models and innovation - 43000 citatations

George, G., Haas, M. R., & Pentland, A. (2014). From the editors: Big data and management. Academy of Management Journal, 57(2), 321–326.

Founder

GoStudent

Professor of Operations Management, Center of Digital Transformation

TUM Heilbronn, Germany

Professor of Business Administration

TUM, Germany

Professor of Economics

TUM

• Champan, Gary and Hottenrott, Hanna: Green Start-Ups and the Role of Founder Personality. 2022, more… • Chapman, Gary; Hottenrott, Hanna: Green Start-ups and the Role of Founder Personality. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2022 more…

Co-Director, Center for Public Leadership Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management

Harvard Kennedy School

Professor of Computer Science in Economics

TUM, Germany

Professor Entrepreneurship Practice

TUM, Germany

CPTO

ArK (former EQT Ventures)

Known by Andre Retterath → maybe make contact over him → Henrik started the “Motherbrain” which is the AI used by EQT ventures —> How EQT Ventures' Motherbrain uses AI to find promising startups | VentureBeat; "EQT ventures motherbrain" | Suche | LinkedIn

Professor of Entrepreneurship

TUM, Germany

Cockburn, I., Henderson, R., & Stern, S. (2018). The impact of artificial intelligence on innovation. NBER Working Paper no. 24449.

Professor of Private Equity

Stanford University, US

Expert: corporate finance, venture and angel capital, innovation financing, corporate innovation, and financial decision-making. Recent work has examined the valuation of VC-backed companies, decision making by startup investors, returns to VC investors, and impact of venture capital investments - 6.600 citations

Ilya A. Strebulaev | Stanford Graduate School of Business

Assoziierter Professor für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insbesondere Business Analytics

HSG St. Gallen

Business Analytics, Data Science, Crowdsourcing - 3.700 citations (young)

Suàrez, J.-L., White, R. E., Parker, S., & Jimenez-Mavillard, A. (in press). Entrepreneurship and the mass media: Evidence from big data. Academy of Management Discoveries, . https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2018.0177

Prüfer, J., & Prüfer, P. (2019). Data science for entrepreneurship research: Studying demand dynamics for entrepreneurial skills in the Netherlands. Small Business Economics, 54(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00208-y

Founder

FlixBus

Professor of Psychology

University of Washington, US

Key researcher for marriages: Gottman Institute approached - (phone number: +1 206-523-9042 → Contact Person: Katie Reynolds - messgae left on voice mail; option to go via “customerservice@gottman.com and message will be forewarded to Katie Reynolds”

Research | John M. Gottman, Ph.D. (johngottman.net)

CEO

Brüggeman GmbH & Co. KG

Professor of Management Practice, Future of Work

Harvard Business School, US

General Partner

La Famiglia

Assistent Professor of Psychology

University of Georgia

Multiple publications - see Column “Overview of publications”

‪Justin Lavner‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬

Professor of Management

University of Trier, Germany

Ordentlicher Professor für Entrepreneurship und Innovation

HSG St. Gallen

Less relevant - few publications - “big name university”

TFO

Mitglied des Verwaltungsrates

Palantier/Ringier

Multiple (e.g., advisory board)

Amoreli, Starstrike Ventures GmbH

→ Potent

Ph.D., Senior Data Scientist & Data Science Lead

EQT

Has spoken at #DataInnovationSummit  #DIS22; Posten | Feed | LinkedIn

PAUSE: Positive and Annealed Unlabeled Sentence Embedding - ACL Anthology

Mitbegründerin und CEO von PlanA.Earth GmbH und Mitbegründerin der Greentech Alliance

PlanA.Earth

Tonidandel, S., King, E. B., & Cortina, J. M. (2018). Big data methods: Leveraging modern data analytic techniques to build organizational science. Organizational Research Methods, 21(3), 525–547.

Ensley, M. D., Pearson, A. W., & Amason, A. C. (2002). Understanding the dynamics of new venture top management teams: cohesion, conflict, and new venture performance. Journal of Business Venturing, 17(4), 365–386. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/S0883-9026(00)00065-3

Professor of Psychology

New York University, US

Partner at Global Founders Capital I AI & Blockchain

Global Founders Capital

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship,

Nanyang Technical University Singapore

Director of the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research and Full Professor of Entrepreneurship

QUT, Australi

young and many citations (5.500); person-environment interactions and transaction - advancing the knowledge of psychological and economic factors and mechanisms relevant for human agency in context. projects on entrepreneurial development over the lifespan, entrepreneurial regions and culture, public policy, human capital, personality, geographical psychology, organisational behaviour, well-being and stress, and social and economic change. interdisciplinary projects, cross-cultural perspectives, innovative data and methods, and also in the practical application of new scientific knowledge.

Obschonka, M. (2017). The quest for the entrepreneurial culture: Psychological big data in entrepreneurship research. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 18, 69–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2017. 07.014 Obschonka, M., & Audretsch, D. B. (2019). Artificial intelligence and big data in entrepreneurship: A new era has begun. Small Business Economics, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-019-00202-4 Lévesque, M., Obschonka, M., & nambisan, S. (in press). Pursuing Impactful entrepreneurship research using artificial intelligence. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.

Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations

NYU

His recent work includes studies of social enterprises, impact investing, and corporate social responsibility, and he serves on the editorial review boards at Administrative Science Quarterly  and Academy of Management Journal.

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Nanyang Technical University Singapore

Professor for Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise

TUM, Germany

Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems

York University, Canada

entrepreneurial decision making - individual actions and decision making as key to success/failure; research focusses on using mathematical approach to theory development for organizational studies/entrepreneurship - few citatations

Lévesque, M. and A. Subramanian (Forthcoming), "Invited Article: Family Firm Succession Through the Lens of Technology Intelligence", Journal of Family Business Strategy. Subramanian, A., Lévesque, M. and V. van de Vrande. "Are Biopharma Firms Discontinuing Doomed Drug Discovery Projects Fast Enough?", Production and Operations Management. Liu, A. and M. Lévesque. (Forthcoming), "Interorganizational Knowledge Flows in Academia-Industry Collaboration: The Economic Impacts of Science-Based Firm Innovation?", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

Berente, N., Seidel, S., & Safadi, H. (2019). Data-driven computationally-intensive theory development. Information Systems Research, 30(1), 50–64.

Associate Professor of Business Economics

University of Oxford, UK

Research on Ethical AI

Professor of Business Administration

Harvard Business School, US

Specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies - 45.000 citatations

Paul A. Gompers - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School (hbs.edu)

Professor of Psychology

University of California, Davis

Machine Learning Paper - Multiple other publications in the field

‪Paul Eastwick‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬

Referent Startups

Bitkom e.V.

Senior Fellow in Entrepreneurship

Oxford University - Said Business School

Research on: 1. Entrepreneurial leadership 2. Women's entrepreneurship and Islam