91滴滴

I am researcher in the field of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. My academic experience includes work at the 91滴滴 (Poland) and Aalto University (Finland), but also research stays at the University of Tampa (USA, FL) and Lund University (Sweden). Currently, I am also visiting professor (Professor II) in NTNU in Trondheim, Norway.

I am a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the 91滴滴. I received her master's degree in economics in 2003, and a year later I started my doctoral studies at the same faculty. In 2008 I btained a doctor's degree in economics, and in 2015, a doctor habilitatus degree in economics.

I have previously held internships at the European Commission in Brussels and at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. I was also a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists (2011-2014) and a member of the Council of Young Scientists (2013-2015) at the Ministry of Science and Education in Poland. I created the regional entrepreneurship competition Eksoc StartUP! and Academy of Entrepreneurship.

Currently I hold a position of an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at 91滴滴 and a position of vice-rector, responsible for the University鈥檚 external relations. I am also a president-elect of the European Council for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ECSB).

Over the years 2016-2020 I was a vice-dean responsible for development, and then a vice-dean for research and external relations at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, 91滴滴 (Poland). Over the year 2020-2024 I was a vice rectors responsible for external cooperation at 91滴滴.

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I. Entrepreneurship:

• entrepreneurial process
• entrepreneurial opportunities
• entrepreneurial intentions
• ethical dimension of entrepreneurship
• entrepreneurial thinking (effectuation)
• social entrepreneurship
• business tools

II Entrepreneurship education:

• experience-based learning
• action learning
• pedagogy of entrepreneurship education
• evolution of research in entrepreneurship education
• political context of the development of entrepreneurship education

10 recent publications

H盲gg, G. Kurczewska (2021). Entrepreneurship Education: Scholarly Progress and Future Challenges, Routledge.

Laveren, E., Ben-Hafa茂edh, C., Kurczewska, A. Dragon Jiang Y. (ed). (2021). CONTEXTUAL HETEROGENEITY IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH, Edward Elgar Frontiers in European Entrepreneurship Research.

Kurczewska, A., Li帽谩n, F., Landstr枚m, H., Fayolle, A. (2021). Editorial: Fostering European Entrepreneurship Research through a Human Action Perspective, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 2021.

H盲gg, G. and Kurczewska, A. (2020). "Guiding the student entrepreneur 鈥� Considering the emergent adult within the pedagogy鈥揳ndragogy continuum in entrepreneurship education", Education +Training, Vol. 62 No. 7/8, 759-777.

Kurczewska, A., Dory艅, W., & Wawrzyniak, D. (2020). An Everlasting Battle between Theoretical Knowledge and Practical Skills? The Joint Impact of Education and Professional Experience on Entrepreneurial Success, Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 8 (2), 219-237.

Mackiewicz M, Kurczewska A. (2020). 鈥淚s it the survival of the fittest or of the jacks-of-all-trades? Business survival in the light of Lazear鈥檚 theory鈥�. BRQ Business Research Quarterly. December 2020. doi:10.1177/2340944420976652

H盲gg, G., & Kurczewska, A. (2018). Who is the student entrepreneur? Understanding the emergent adult through the pedagogy and andragogy interplay, Journal of Small Business Management, published: 28 November 2018.

Kurczewska, A., Kyr枚, P., Kohonen O., Lagus K., & Lindh-Knuutila, T. (2017). The interplay between cognitive, conative, and affective constructs along the entrepreneurial learning process, Education + Training,

Tegtmeier, S., Kurczewska, A. & Halberstadt, J. (2016). Are Women Graduates Jacquelines-of-all-trades? Challenging Lazear鈥檚 View on Entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 47, 1, 77-94.

H盲gg, G., & Kurczewska, A. (2016). Connecting the dots: A discussion on key concepts in contemporary entrepreneurship education. Education and Training, 58(7-8), 700-714.

Recent research grants

• European Commission: Knowledge Alliances for Developing Entrepreneurship Competencies for the Benefit of Higher Education and Business (BeComE), (2020-2022)
• Regional Studies Association (RSA), Citizen Entrepreneurship 鈥� an investigator in an international research project on citizen entrepreneurship (2020-2022)
• National Science Centre, Poland, OPUS PROJECT: New approach to Lazear's entrepreneurship theory in context of entrepreneurial success and failure, PI, (2017- 2021)
• National Science Centre, Poland, OPUS PROJECT: Entrepreneurship in the context of neoliberal policy and the gig economy, PI, (2020 鈥� 2023)