The professorship's research focuses on innovations, the underlying technologies, and the field of entrepreneurship. The focus is on issues of technology and knowledge transfer, as well as the process and project design of successful innovation projects. Among other things, we investigate how research networks, strategic alliances, and collaborations—for example, between research institutions, industry, and government—accelerate innovation processes in order to quickly and efficiently translate research results, particularly in the field of sustainable technologies, into broad, practical application.
Young growth companies (start-ups) and spin-offs, such as those resulting from research projects, are also key drivers of innovation and transfer. Our entrepreneurship research focuses primarily on the early, critical phases of technology-oriented start-ups and spin-off projects. In current studies, we analyze, among other things, the role of startup accelerators, incubators and founding teams, the importance of strategic partnerships with established companies (strategic entrepreneurship) and the influence of regional ecosystems on the development of tech startups.
Research focus
- Entrepreneurial Universities and Academic Spin-offs
- Innovation Intermediaries: Startup Incubators and Accelerators
- Regional Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystems
- Collaborative Technology and Innovation Development: Innovation Alliances and Research Networks
- Evidence-Based Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policy
- Strategic Entrepreneurship: Corporate-Startup Collaborations
- Entrepreneurship Culture
Current research projects
- Never change a winning team: Retention of Acqui-hired Founders Teams (Seitz, N. & Lehmann, E.E.)
- Entrepreneurship Culture: Bibliometric of 40 years in research (Seitz, N.; & Buratti, M.)
- Startup Accelerator Performance: Meta-analytical Analysis (Seitz, N.; Buratti, M & Lehmann, E.E.)
- Innovation radicalness of entrepreneurial ecosystems: an analysis of regional knowledge flows (Buratti, M. & Menter, M.)
- The resilience of entrepreneurial ecosystems: an analysis of the role and impact of ecosystem network structures (Buratti, M. & Menter, M.)
- The evolutionary dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystem: The mutual relationship between entrepreneurial activities and technological complexity (Buratti, M.)
- How to promote innovation in structural weak regions? Ex-ante policy selection of actors and modes of innovation (Buratti, M., Cantner, U. & Haedrich, T.)
- A meta-analysis towards the effectiveness of startup incubators (Buratti, M. Seitz, N.)
- The impact of AI adoption on firm efficiency (Buratti, M.,Menter, M., Seitz, N. & Voigt, J.)
- Speeding up green-tech innovations: research networks and the dynamics of co-opetition (Basilico, S., Buratti, M., Grashof, N. & Seitz, N.)