POSITION: Ph.d. grant for researching on Entrepreneurship and Innovation – University of Padua, Italy

[entrepreneurship-phd at lists.uni-due.de]

From: Paolo Giacon [mailto:paolo.giacon at unipd.it] 
Date: Mon 4 Jul 2011 11:04

The University of Padova offers  research fellowships to foreign students willing to attend Doctoral Schools. During the 3-year doctoral programme (starting on January 2nd, 2012, and ending on December31st, 2014), successful candidates will be offered full board and lodging.

The Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management  (University of Padua), encourages foreign students interested in Entrepreneurship, to apply for the Doctoral School on Management Engineering. Successful students will have the opportunity to research and work within the Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab under the supervision of professor Moreno Muffatto.
Applicants are required to have foreign citizenship and foreign residence; they will also have a foreign academic qualification.

The official call for application is available at this website:  http://www.unipd.it/unipdWAR/page/unipd_en/research_en1/en_6_3_P2
The deadline for the official application is 5th September 2011.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send as soon as possible (before 22th july 2011) your cv and a research proposal to the following email paolo.giacon at unipd.it for a preliminary evaluation. 
As you probably can read from the official call for application, a study/research plan is required.  Before you formalize it within the application form, we would like to share some ideas and to arrange it with you. Please remember that the plan should be a clear and detailed description of your study objectives and should highlight the main reasons for your commitment. Max. 3 pages will be accepted. We suggest to structure the plan as follows:
A.   1) Main field of study and specific interest (which is the topic of your research)
B.   2) Relevance of the topic
C.   3) Objectives of the research
D.   4) Methodological issues
E.   5) Expected results and benefits for potential stakeholders of your research

Our research group is focused on the following topics: general theories of entrepreneurship, effectuation, academic entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship in developing countries, corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial behavior, entrepreneurship education, technological transfer, innovation management, knowledge management, high-tech entrepreneurship (biotechnology, nanotechnology, clean/green tech, robotics, ICT, etc…), project management, strategic management, innovative business models. 

According to your interests other research streams could be explored.
If you have questions or you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact  me.
On behalf of professor Muffatto, 
best regards
 
Dr. Paolo Giacon
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Dr. Paolo Giacon
Dimeg - University of Padua
via Venezia 1, 35100, Padova, Italy
ph.n.: +39.049.8277473
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email: paolo.giacon at unipd.it