Strategic focus on competitiveness and entrepreneurship

CBS is now focusing efforts on two significant challenges to the business community and to Denmark as a nation - the ability to compete and to turn ideas into successful enterprises.

12/21/2012

From the turn of the year, CBS will place a strategic focus on entrepreneurship and competitiveness through two new Business in Society (BiS) platforms. The new BiS platforms will act as competence hubs for CBS' departments and contribute to bringing Denmark back on the growth track.

- In Denmark, we need to strengthen our competitive position, and we need a high innovative capacity. CBS already plays a major role, conducting both research and teaching activities within entrepreneurship and competition. These new platforms will concentrate and accumulate our knowledge and activities, says Alan Irwin, Dean of Research.

The platforms will launch on 1 January 2013 and will each have two academic directors to coordinate initiatives and collaborations both within CBS and with external institutions. The rationale behind these platforms lies in the need to work interdisciplinarily and to focus on the interaction between teaching, research and societal challenges.

Daniel Hjorth, Professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy and Serden Özcan, Associate Professor from the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics have been appointed academic directors of the CBS Entrepreneurship Platform. In charge of the CBS Competitiveness Platform are Christer Karlsson,  Professor in the Department of Operations Management and Torben Pedersen, Professor from the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization.

CBS' dean of research expects that the platform will deepen CBS' cooperation with society.

- Within these two areas, CBS' research is unique. After the London School of Economics, we are the most published university in Europe in terms of entrepreneurship research. The aim of the platforms is to make it easier for our stakeholders to draw on our knowledge, and our future research will be much more applicable to society, says Alan Irwin.

The new platforms supplement the two Business in Society platforms Public-Private and Sustainability.

Read more about Business in Society http://www.cbs.dk/CBS-Fokus/Menu/CBS-strategi-Business-in-Society

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