ABOUT US...

ENTC -  the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization - is a research center newly established at the College of Management of Technology at EPFL and is directed by Prof. Dr. Marc Gruber.

ENTC's mission is to be an internationally recognized center of excellence in research and teaching in Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization. The center wants to be a strong partner to the entrepreneurship community at EPFL and in the Lausanne region, and a key player in an international network of entrepreneurship institutions.

Drawing on theoretical lenses offered by organization theory, strategic management theory and marketing theory, research at ENTC focuses on the following interrelated topics:

• New venture creation 
• Opportunity recognition
• Marketing of innovative technologies

NEWS

February 15, 2010

The recent AMJ paper "Individual and Opportunity Factors Influencing Job Creation in New Firms" (06/2009) by John Dencker, Marc Gruber, and Sonali Shah has received attention by the German business magazine 'Handelsblatt'. A discussion of the study's findings is published in the policy section of the magazine's online edition.

[Link to the article]

November 20, 2009

Jeffrey Petty & Marc Gruber's recent paper "This Deal is Dead! A Longitudinal Study of VC Decision Making" has been awared the Irene M. McCarthy Award for the Best Paper on the Topic of High Technology at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC). The award will be presented at the 2010 BCERC conference.

September 28, 2009

Marc Gruber's recent paper "Configurations of Resources & Capabilities and their Performance Implications: An Exploratory Study on Technology Ventures" (with F. Heinemann, M. Brettel and S. Hungeling) has been accepted for publication in the Strategic Management Journal.

August, 2009

The Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management (held in Chicago, August 2009) awarded Marc Gruber, Ian MacMillan and Jim Thompson with the 2008 "Thought Leaders Award"  for their paper "Look before you Leap: Market Opportunity Identification in Emerging Technology Firms".

July 21, 2009

Marc Gruber's recent paper (with J. Dencker and S. Shah) titled "Individual and Opportunity Factors Influencing Job Creation in New Firms" has been accepted for publication in the Academy of Management Journal.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Configurations of Resources & Capabilities and their Performance Implications: An Exploratory Study on Technology Ventures (Marc Gruber with F. Heinemann, M. Brettel and S. Hungeling), Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming.

In Pursuit of the &quotReal Deal" - A Longitudinal Study of VC Decision Making (Marc Gruber with Petty, J.), Journal of Business Venturing, forthcoming.

Individual and Opportunity Factors Influencing Job Creation in New Firms (Marc Gruber with Dencker, J.C., and S.K. Shah), Academy of Management Journal, No. 6/2009, Vol. 52, pp. 1125-1147.

Pre-Entry Knowledge, Learning & the Survival of New Firms (Marc Gruber with Dencker, J.C., and S.K. Shah), Organization Science, Vol. 20, No. 3/2009, pp. 516-537.

Look before you Leap: Market Opportunity Identification in Emerging Technology Firms (Marc Gruber with MacMillan, I.C., and J. Thompson), Management Science, No. 9/2008, pp. 1652 - 1665.