Maximilian Goethner is an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurship & Technology Management (ETM) section at the University of Twente. He is also a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany, and serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM).
Maximilian holds a PhD (cum laude) in Technology Entrepreneurship from the University of Jena, Germany. His dissertation, From Lab to Marketplace: An Empirical Investigation of the Emergence and Early Performance of Academic Spin-off Companies, examines the pathways and outcomes of academic entrepreneurship.
His research interests include regional income and labor market dynamics, digital innovation, technology commercialization, and university–industry technology transfer. His work has been published in leading journals such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Small Business Management, Small Business Economics, Journal of Technology Transfer, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Economic Psychology, and Journal of Vocational Behavior.
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Social Sciences
- Entrepreneurship
- Research
- Scientists
- New Venture
- Success
Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Knowledge
- Entrepreneurs
Psychology
- Intention
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2024
2023
2022
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Courses academic year 2025/2026
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
- 194100040 - Master Thesis BA
- 201400018 - Master class BA
- 201500101 - Master Thesis Research Proposal
- 201500102 - Master Thesis Research Project
- 202000230 - Minor: From Idea to Prototype
- 202000234 - Minor: From Prototype to Society
- 202000593 - Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- 202400053 - Economics
- 202400054 - SME Project
- 202400101 - Bachelor Thesis IBA
Courses academic year 2024/2025
- 194100040 - Master Thesis BA
- 201400018 - Master class BA
- 201500101 - Master Thesis Research Proposal
- 201500102 - Master Thesis Research Project
- 202000230 - Minor: From Idea to Prototype
- 202000234 - Minor: From Prototype to Society
- 202000576 - Research Proposal Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202000579 - Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202000593 - Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- 202400053 - Economics
- 202400054 - SME Project
- 202400101 - Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202400106 - Bachelor Thesis IBA, DD with Múnster
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