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dr. R. Harms (Rainer)

Associate Professor

About Me

Technology Entrepreneurs leverage technology to solve world problems and achieve strong growth. At the same time, they deal with a high degree of market and technological uncertainty. My ambition in research and teaching is to contribute to understanding and solving the challenges of technology entrepreneurship (TE).

I obtained a PhD in Business Administration from WWU Münster, one of the leading universities on Business Administration in Germany, with a study on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Entrepreneurial Management (runner-up of best dissertation award at WWU Business&Economics). I defended my Habilitation in Business Administration from AAU Klagenfurt on a work on Complexity and Dynamics in new venture creation processes. Since 2012, I am Associate Professor at University Twente. I have served as visiting professor at prestigious universities such as WU Vienna (the largest business university in Europe), UAB Barcelona (e.g. 18th in young university rankings THE 2017), St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, and was visiting researcher at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA.

Expertise

Entrepreneurship
Business Incubators
Industry
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Intention
Entrepreneurship Education
Innovation
Venture

Organizations

Research

I have published in leading journals of the field, such as Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, and others. I have published 50+ publications in scientific journals, edited 4 special issues of scientific journals of the field and have 100+ conference presentations at international conferences. My h-factor (GS) is at 20 (2017). Please find an overview of my research output at Google scholar and at Research gate. I also serve(d) as daily supervisor for 7 PhD theses, and served as examiner for 19 additional PhD theses in The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Finland, and Spain. My current research topics include:

  • Capabilities for early internationalization of technology-based ventures

  • Antecedents to international sequencing strategies

  • The role of learning in the technology venture development process

Publications

Recent
Fink, M., Hatak, I., Harms, R., & Gartner, J. (2018). How Context Matters in the Relationship between Ethical Research Decisions and Research Productivity among Business Scholars. Paper presented at Rencontres de St. Gall, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Harms, R., & Schwery, M. (2018). Does Lean Startup work?. Paper presented at Lean Startup Summit Europe, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Simon, F., Delke, V. F., Schiele, H., & Harms, R. (2018). Identifying partners outside existing networks. Paper presented at 27th Annual IPSERA Conference 2018, Athens, Greece.
Simon, F., Harms, R., & Schiele, H. (2018). External knowledge from startups: Search strategies and radical innovation capabilities. Paper presented at ISPIM Innovation Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
Harms, R., & Jie, S. (2018). Dynamic capability vs. substantive capability: Frameworks of categorization and a systematic literature review. Paper presented at IACMR Conference 2018, Wuhan, China.
Jie, S., & Harms, R. (2018). Capabilities and international startups’ international performance: Categorization model and a systematic literature review. Paper presented at EURAM Conference 2018, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Koers-Stuiver, D. M., Groen, A. J., Englis-Englis, P. D., & Harms, R. (2018). Barriers to social entrepreneurship by refugees: An explorative study how prior experience, per-sonal unmet needs and unique life experiences influence prosocial orientation.
Marinakis, Y., Harms, R., Ahluwalia, S., & Walsh, S. T. (2018). Explaining product adoption and diffusion at the Base of the Pyramid. International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, 11(4), 345-365. DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2017.10012704
Jie, S., & Harms, R. (2018). Capabilities and International Startups' International Performance: A Systematic Literature Review. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018(1). DOI: 10.5465/AMBPP.2018.17570abstract
Franz, S., Harms, R., & Schiele, H. (2017). Managing corporate-startup relationships: What matters for entrepreneurs?International journal of entrepreneurial venturing. DOI: 10.1504/IJEV.2018.10012021

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Education

It is my passion to help students learn about technology entrepreneurship. I have taught at all levels at 10 universities in 8 countries. The 15ECTS Module “Innovation&Entrepreneurship” as well as the 4TU MOOC “Entrepreneurship for Engineers” received external recogition. My current teaching includes:

  • MOOC “Entrepreneurship for Engineers”

  • EIT Entrepreneurship Minor (Coordinator Utwente)

  • International Technology Entrepreneurship (Master)

  • Innovation & Entrepreneurship module (Bachelor)

  • Business Development Lab for EIT (Minor)

  • EIT thesis project (Minor)

  • Nanotechnology Design Project (Master)

  • Summer School “Entrepreneurship Research: New Horizons (all levels)

 

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Contact Details

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Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 2109
Hallenweg 17
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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Mailing Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn  2109
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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