ACE’s Director, Professor Per Davidsson, has been invited as keynote speaker at “Advances in the Psychology of Entrepreneurship” in Sheffield, UK, June 29-July 1. The meeting is organised by the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP). Per’s speech will focus on research methods in entrepreneurship research with particular attention to how psychologists can make unique contributions to knowledge development in this area.
Shortly thereafter, July 8-14, Per has been also invited to participate in the “Summer Residence Week for Entrepreneurship Economists” in Oxford, UK. This is another small, invitation only event aimed at furthering disciplinary knowledge on entrepreneurship, through the lens of economics.
“My original academic home was Economic Psychology, so between the two these events represent a return to my roots,” says Per. “However, when I started out the little research that was done tended to happen at the fringes of Management and Marketing. There was no particular focus on entrepreneurship in either Psychology or Economics. It’s wonderful to see how attention to this important phenomenon has evolved in both disciplines – and great to be able to still play a role in both!”
After the two events Per will stay in the Northern Hemisphere to cover also the Academy of Management conference in early August. There, Per will among other things roll off his five-year cycle in the leadership of the Entrepreneurship Division. Counting 2,700 members this is the largest association for entrepreneurship scholars in the world.