On June 29 Astrid Heidemann Lassen successfully presented and defended her PhD, entitled “Corporate Entrepreneurship: Towards an Understanding of the Importance of Radical Innovation in Knowledge Intensive Firms”  to a committee consisting of  Associate Professor Poul H. K. Hansen (Aalborg University, CIP)  Professor John Bessant (Imperial College, London) and Professor Torben Bager (University of Southern Denmark).

The contributions of the thesis are organized in three main areas:

• Development of conceptual propositions on how the field of corporate entrepreneurship gains from applying specific considerations on innovation. These propositions are joined under the term Radical Innovation, and it is concluded that from a theoretical point of view this is the relevant perspective in which to view corporate entrepreneurship.

• Targeted empirical research on this relationship, demonstrating and discussing the importance of Corporate Entrepreneurial Innovation, Strategic Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial Knowledge Management

• Identification and empirical analysis of organizational practices supportive of creation of corporate entrepreneurial innovation. This is developed into a frame for a more detailed understanding of management hereof.

 

Astrid was supervised by Professor Jens Ove Riis and Professor Frank Gertsen.