At the beginning of August, Erik Monsen joined the Hunter Centre of Entrepreneurship as a Senior Lecturer of Technology Entrepreneurship. From 2005 to 2010, he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Public Policy Group of the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, Germany.
He earned his PhD in Organization Management at the University of Colorado at Boulder (2005), where he earned an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Technology Management (2001). Before entrepreneurship, he was an aerospace engineering researcher (BS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1991; MS, Stanford University, 1992) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Braunschweig, Germany, from 1994 to 1999.
Instead of designing better aircraft, he now researches how to design better entrepreneurship systems from the employee perspective and has published his research in Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Small Business Economics, and the Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung.
He has also taught at the University of Jena, the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL), and the International Graduate Business School Zagreb.
Dr Monsen comes to Strathclyde through the John Anderson Research Leadership scheme, created by the University to enhance its world-leading research portfolio and attract 'inspirational academics' to Strathclyde.