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Associate Professor in Technology Entrepreneurship

jobbeskrivelse:

The Mads Clausen Institute at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) invites applications for a position as Associate Professor in Technology Entrepreneurship with emphasis on emergent technologies and digitalization.The targeted starting date of the position is August 1^st, 2019.

The position is located within the Section SDU Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation (TEI) at the Faculty of Engineering on the international campus Sønderborg. The section unites engineering, innovation management, and entrepreneurship scholars in joint research projects and teaching. TEI focuses on the technological innovation process, from ideation and prototyping, through production and operations management, to technology commercialization.

SDU TEI is embedded in a region with a strong network of companies, including some of Denmark's largest global industrial players (i.e. Danfoss, Linak, Lego, Siemens, Vestas) and many manufacturing SMEs. Projects currently run by the group cover a range of cutting-edge technology innovation topics with high impact, among others this includes: Smart Factory – I4.0, digitalization and lean automation, collaborative robots, innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems, new technology transfer models, and emerging technologies commercialization and entrepreneurship. The group publishes in leading international journals across these topics, such as CIRP Annals, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Research Policy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Creativity and Innovation Management, Journal of Small Business Management or Business Horizons.

The SDU TEI section is a highly international and interdisciplinary group of 12 faculty members, with international students. The campus is in Sønderborg, an attractive maritime town with an open Scandinavian culture and affordable housing and living costs. For more information on SDU TEI, please visit www.sdu.dk/tei.

Job abstractJV_description

A successful candidate will drive internationally competitive research, collaborate in and across disciplines, work closely with industry and attract competitive external research funding. The candidate is expected to contribute significantly to SDU TEI’s research and teaching environment and to the overall strategy of SDU’s Mads Clausen Institute (MCI). The candidate is expected to provide outstanding education, supervise bachelor’s, master’s and PhD level students, as well as to contribute to the development of junior faculty research to high international standards.

The candidate will get the opportunity to shape this development together with the team and develop and implement research-project ideas with a regional focus and impact. Topics of interest (but not limited to) are: digitization of firm’s activities, digital transformation in the industrial context, commercialization and entrepreneurship in new emerging technologies (IoT, blockchain, biotech, nanotech…), new forms of university-industry collaboration, new models of industry and start-ups collaboration, and academic entrepreneurship.

We offer

We offer a vigorous international research environment with excellent facilities (including the SDU MCI Innovation Lab) and strong collaborations with research organisations and industry. We offer the possibility to contribute to the development of a technology innovation multidisciplinary platform (including innovation spaces and labs) that connects advanced research activities with an active industrial network of partners in the region. We also offer the opportunity to shape our educational programmes to benefit from new developments in pedagogical approaches and content.

We expect 

The candidate must possess research qualifications and teaching skills corresponding to those obtained after a successful completion of a period of employment as an assistant professor (or equivalent academic qualifications).

The candidate must have a PhD degree in engineering, technology management or a closely related field, an emerging research track in the field (in engineering and/or technology management and/or entrepreneurship journals), evidence of excellent teaching at undergraduate and graduate level (e.g. teaching evaluations, awards, having completed pedagogical and supervision courses), evidence of project/s participation with competitive research funding (at national and/or international level). In addition, candidates with any kind of practical experience in a company will be preferred.

We are seeking for a highly motivated and outgoing candidate, who is able to work and communicate in an international and interdisciplinary team. The candidate must be a team player and at the same time able to carry out independent and rigorous work. 

We are looking for candidates with experience and competences in several of the following items:

 

• Mentoring and coaching students in industry collaboration projects, internships, and thesis.
• Ability to work in national and international projects across a variety of industries: manufacturing, IT, health and life sciences, or consumer products.
• Research method background in both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
• A relevant international network for research and collaboration activities.
• Experience in performing research management activities, editorial experience, planning and running conferences or workshops, etc.
• Experience in attracting and managing externally funded projects with multiple partners (e.g. EU projects).

Further information is available from the Head of the Section Associate Professor Arne Bilberg abi (at) mci.sdu.dk.

 

 

Requirements for the position

Employment as an associate professor requires scientific qualifications at PhD level.

Applications will be assessed by an expert committee. 
The committee may request additional information, and if so, it is the responsibility of the applicant to provide the necessary material. Applicants will be informed of their assessment by the Faculty.
 
Shortlisting may be used. Shortlisted applicants will be assessed by an assessment panel.
 
As part of the overall assessment of the applicant’s qualifications, the applicant may be called for interview.

 

Conditions of employment

The successful applicant will be employed in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations.Application

Your application must be uploaded through the link “Apply Online”. Attached files must be in Adobe PDF or Word format. Please read guidelines for applicants.

All pdf-files must be unlocked and allow binding and may not be password protected.

In case you have more than one file per field you need to combine the pdf-files into a single file, as each field handles only one file.

Each box can only contain a single file of max. 10 Mb.

The applications must include:

• Application
• Detailed Curriculum Vitae
• Certificates/Diplomas (MSc and PhD) - Danish or English transcripts
• Information on previous teaching experience, please attach as Teaching portfolio
• List of publications indicating the publications attached
• Examples of the most relevant publications. Please attach one pdf-file for each publication, a possible co-author statement must be a part of this pdf-file
• Other relevant qualifications

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

The application must be in English.

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