Department of Strategy and Innovation

Toke Reichstein (b. 1973) is Professor of Economics of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Department of Strategy and Innovation, CBS.
 
Reichstein received his PhD degree from Aalborg University in 2003 after which he joined Imperial College Business School for at a research associate and later a Research Fellow (2003-2007). He became an associated professor at the Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics (INO) at CBS in 2006 and promoted to Professor in 2014 at the same department. He was co-responsible for the CBS Entrepreneurship Platform from 2014 to 2017. He transferred his professorship to the Department of Strategic Management and Globalization (SMG) in 2017 and became the academic director at Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship from 2017 to 2020. Reichstein became a professor at the Department of Strategy and Innovation - a merger of INO and SMG. He was appointed council member at the social science section of the Independent Research Fund Denmark in 2019. He is also a founding member of the Danish Centre for Entrepreneurship Research. He has on multiple occasions served on assessment committees at Riksbankens Jubileumsfond in Sweden and at Academy of Finland.  
   
Reichstein’s research profile centers on entrepreneurship, technological change and innovation. He has published papers in respectable journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Business Venturing and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. His work is predominantly quantitative building on register data and data assembled from scratch. Reichstein’s papers addresses questions pertaining to selection into self-employment, conditions of self-employment, strategic decision making in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs rejoining the labor market, transfer of organizational practices form parent firm to startup, innovation speed, technology licensing, contractual specifications for technology partnering, and strategic alignment in technology partnering.

In terms of teaching, Reichstein is responsible for the Minor in Entrepreneurship at the Bachelor level. A program that includes courses in Entrepreneurial Strategy, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Entrepreneurial Business Planning and Development. He is also responsible for and teaches Managerial Economics and has for more than a decade been associated with Luiss Business School teaching their PhD students Applied Econometrics.