Hi!
Venture studios are a fascinating organizational form in business incubation research, next to incubators and accelerators.
My name is Matthias and I am an external PhD student at UT with Prof. Dr. Rainer Harms and Prof. Dr. Vincent Göttel acting as my supervisors. I study best practices of organizational learning in venture studios, with a focus on various forms of ambidextrous learning.
When I do not work on my PhD thesis, I support Prof. Dr. Sascha Kemmeter from the Hochschule Mainz in Germany in building up the New Venture Studio at Hochschule Mainz.
In a team of three, I also act as organizer and chair of the international venture studio research fellowship, which is probably the biggest international association of academic researchers of venture studios.
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How do venture studios learn? And which types of ambidexterity do they display?
These are the overarching questions that motivate my research. Why do they matter and why should you care?
Venture studios are serial entrepreneurial organizations: They build several startups in parallel and consecutively. Therein, the venture studio approach to serial founding offers a simple but effective promise: By serially building many startups out of a single organization, venture studios get better and better at founding in the particular business segments they serve through extensive learning-by-doing. This very much invites taking an organizational learning perspective on venture studios.
My current and upcoming research into organizational learning and ambidexterity in venture studios can be separated into four sub-projects:
1. Gioia analysis based on 30 semi-structured interviews with venture studio leaders on exploration and exploitation in their organizations
2. Taxonomy based on field notes from participant observation at numerous online events by the Global Startup Studio Network (30+ hours)
3. Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis based on survey data and an in-depth case study of 30+ venture studios
4. Regression analysis of venture studio performance based on data gathered from Pitchbook, Crunchbase and from venture studio databases
Next to participating in edutainment activities like science slams, research podcasts, science markets, etc., I currently offer workshops in the fields of storytelling & pitching, Design Thinking and Lean Startup.
For my ongoing research, I could obtain a partnership with the Global Startup Studio Network, the biggest association of venture studios worldwide. This partnership has proven tremendously helpful in gaining access to venture studio leaders.
Furthermore, I am a member of the organization committee and regularly act as the chair at meetings of the international venture studio research fellowship.
I am currently seeking a partnership for conducting a survey among venture studio leaders and staff on best learning practices in venture studios.
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