Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Academic Areas
The ENTI area covers entrepreneurship and innovation, in the context of existing businesses, startups and social enterprise. Our faculty members tackle a number of aspects in entrepreneurship and innovation topics, ranging from how companies create and implement entrepreneurial strategies, to understanding the context and support for young and smaller companies, to investigating how entrepreneurs think and act within resource, industry, technological, and social contexts. The faculty research is supported by a variety of grants, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, and private foundations. The faculty also creates innovative new courses and programs in entrepreneurship, empowering potential entrepreneurs throughout the university community. ENTI faculty and students are pleased to work with the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and with the Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking. Our area has a thriving PhD program with students from all over the world working with faculty to conduct world-class research.
Spotlight on Research
Research Proximity and Productivity: Long-Term Evidence from Agriculture
Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley
This paper is published in the Journal of Political Economy.
We use the late nineteenth-century establishment of agricultural experiment stations at preexisting land-grant colleges across the United States to estimate the importance of proximity to research for productivity growth. Our analysis reveals that proximity to newly opened permanent stations affected land productivity for about 20 years and then subsequently declined until becoming largely absent today.
Mallika Banerjee
Assistant Professor
Area of expertise: Processes of entrepreneurial entry, organizational birth, survival and adaptation with a focus on high-skilled immigrant scientists and engineers
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Jess H. Chua
Emeritus Professor of Finance and Family Business Governance
Area of expertise: Entrepreneurial Finance, Family Business
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Jo-Louise Huq
Assistant Professor (Teaching)
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Alice de Koning
Teaching Professor
Area of expertise: Opportunity recognition, Metaphors for entrepreneurship, Public discourse, Entrepreneurial eco-systems, Social enterprise, University spinouts, Pedagogy for entrepreneurship education, Entrepreneurial identity
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Mohammad Keyhani
Area Chair - ENTI, Associate Professor
Area of expertise: Entrepreneurship and innovation, Digital entrepreneurship, Crowdfunding, Entrepreneurship technology, Entrepreneurial Strategy, Platforms and Market-Hierarchy Hybrids, Subjectivist and Austrian Economics, Computational Modeling and Simulation
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Justin Knibbe
Assistant Professor (Teaching), Director of New Graduate Programs
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Seok-Woo Kwon
Professor, Robson Professorship in Entrepreneurship, Research Fellowship in Entrepreneurship
Area of expertise: Demographic and social capital perspectives on entrepreneurship, Knowledge and technology management
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Sandra Malach
Senior Instructor Emerita
Area of expertise: Entrepreneurship, new venture law, curriculum design, sustainability law, corporate social responsibility
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Oleksiy Osiyevskyy
Associate Professor, Associate Dean - Graduate Professional Programs
Area of expertise: New venture development, Corporate entrepreneurship, Innovation
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Houston Peschl
Associate Professor (Teaching)
Area of expertise: Entrepreneurial thinking, Social enterprise, Sustainable development, Scholarship of teaching and learning
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Rosalynn Peschl
Assistant Professor (Teaching)
Area of expertise: Entrepreneurial thinking, Social enterprise, Women in entrepreneurship
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Olga Petricevic
Associate Professor
Area of expertise: Dynamic capabilities in established and new ventures, Resource-based theory of the firm, Inter-organizational relationships, Entrepreneurial human capital, Nascent technologies and international business contexts
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Alice Reimer
Assistant Professor (Teaching)
Area of expertise:
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Michael Robinson
Professor, Chen Fong Fellowship in Entrepreneurial Finance
Area of expertise: Entrepreneurial Finance, Private Equity Markets, Junior Public Equity Markets, Entrepreneurial Governance
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Chad (William) Saunders
Associate Professor
Area of expertise: Entrepreneurial support policy, Healthcare entrepreneurship, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Canada, Entrepreneurial governance, Academic-industry collaborations, Indigenous entrepreneurship
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Alexander Whalley
Associate Professor
Area of expertise: Economics of Innovation; Urban Economics; Labor Economics
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