Professor, Department of Strategy and General Management at
Esade
URL Associate Professor
Director acadèmic MSc in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Master of Science in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Director, GRIE - Grupo de Investigación en Iniciativa Emprendedora
Biography
Dr Jan Brinckmann is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy in the Department
of Strategy and General Management at ESADE. Before joining ESADE, he was Assistant
Professor at Loyola University Chicago, where he served as Program Director of the
Entrepreneurship Program. Prior to this, he taught at Cornell University and the Technical
University Berlin. He additionally did research stays at Stanford University and Case
Western Reserve University. Dr Brinckmann's research has been published in five books
and prestigious entrepreneurship journals including the Journal of Business Venturing,
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Research Policy and the Strategic Entrepreneurship
Journal. Dr. Brinckmann is on the Editorial Review Board of the two leading entrepreneurship
journals, the Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
He regularly presents at leading international entrepreneurship conferences and has
received four best paper awards.Dr Brinckmann has co-founded, advised and supported
several start-ups and high-growth firms in the US, Germany, and Spain. He is an active
business angel who supports ventures on different boards. His focus lies on entrepreneurial
marketing, financing, business development, and internationalization. He has a passion
for applying the lean startup methodology.
Moreover, I am the supervisor of Ph.D. students at ESADE and co-supervisor at WHU
Vallendar Deustchland. I also co-teach our Entrepreneurship Research course for Ph.D.
candidates which consistently received excellent evaluations. Given my current publications,
my regular conference visits to leading entrepreneurship and management conferences
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, the Academy of Management Conference
and the Strategic Management Society Conference, my review activities for the Journal
of Business Venturing 15 reviews done so far, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,
and the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, as well as my many research collaborations
co-authors include Marc Gruber, Stuart Read, Nicholas Dew, Martin Hoegl, Sung Min
Kim, Dietmar Grichnik and Johan Wiklund, I consider myself very well established in
the entrepreneurship community known for an empirical quantitative research focus
specially drawing on evidence based research. I aspire to be part of the group of
top entrepreneurship scholars in Europe publishing high quality research in the top
entrepreneurship journals as well as very good management journals. My trajectory
to date, I believe, is supporting these ambitions. I am further happy that I was selected
to be part of the Research Board of the Entrepreneurship Area at the University of
Sankt Gallen together with other very acclaimed scholars. Moreover, ESADE put me in
charge of the GRIE Grup de Recerca en Iniciativa Emprenedora - Grup de Recerca Consolidad
SGR 00363, as the Director of the Master of Science in Innovation and Entrepreneruship
ranked #3 worldwide Best Masters Entrepreneruship by Eduniversal 2015-2016, and as
the Director of the Entrepreneurship area of the Full Time MBA program ranked top
10 worldwide in Entrepreneruship by Financial Times 2015-2016. I am also the director
of the ESADE EWokrs, the program that manages and provides a series of activities
to foster and support venture creation by ESADE students. Moreover, I am the Director
of ESADE support of KIC InnoEnergy Iberia Accelerator EIT. Since 2012, I'm Visiting
Lecturer MBA elective on High Technology Venturing and subsequently Visiting Professor
MSc Elective on Lean Startup at the University of St. Gallen. More recently we launched
the EWorks Program at ESADE to further support the entrepreneurship activities of
the ESADE students which I cofounded and where I am the Academic Director. We have
created a regular series of Founders Meetups every two weeks, organize visits to the
entrepreneurship hotspots Silicon Valley, London and Berlin as well as in Barcelona,
organize Accelerator activities, Talks and research events. The current status of
citations of my research can be found here: http://scholar.google.es/citations?user=bT0-InAAAAAJ
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 2219
Fax: +34 932 048 105