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Our research areas

We study how startups emerge, grow and shape innovation ecosystems. Startups are catalysts of innovation. They facilitate the renewal of the economy by introducing new technologies.

Our research looks at this process from three sides: the technologies that create new opportunities, the startups that test and scale them, and the labour-market changes that follow when technologies are adopted in practice.

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Technologies

New ventures often grow from novel recombinations of technologies. This stream maps how technologies are related, how they evolve and where new technological potential appears.

  • Technology relatedness and recombination.
  • Early signals of emerging technologies.
  • Digital trace data for mapping technology spaces.
02

Startups

Startups are the central focus of the initiative. This stream studies founders, teams, and startup ecosystems to understand why some new ventures grow while others do not.

  • Founder personality, experience and team composition.
  • Investment decisions and venture-capital dynamics.
  • Startup ecosystems and support institutions.
03

Labour market adoption

Technologies only reshape the economy when firms adopt them. This stream studies how new technologies enter work, change demand for skills, and create new tasks and job profiles.

  • Technology adoption in firms and labour demand.
  • Emerging tasks, skills and job profiles.
  • Worker-transition pathways into new work.

Publications

Science of Startups Initiative
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