Nicola Breugst holds the Professorship of Entrepreneurial Behavior at Technical University of Munich since 2012. She has a PhD in entrepreneurship and a university degree in psychology. She worked at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and the National University of Singapore.
Nicola’s research focuses on the people side of entrepreneurship. More specifically, she addresses questions of entrepreneurial affect, entrepreneurial motivation, and the collaboration in startup teams. Her papers have been published in leading entrepreneurship and management journals. Nicola’s fascination for the people side of entrepreneurship also inspires her teaching which aims at developing the students’ entrepreneurial and analytical thinking. She teaches in the undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs at TUM offering different formats from large-group lectures and research-focused seminars to hands-on workshops.
The role of entrepreneurial teams for founders well-being – In cooperation with Ghent University, we investigate how the context of the entrepreneurial team can increase, but also reduce a founder’s well-being on their entrepreneurial journey
“Does it take a strong team to identify opportunities?” – Jointly with Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, we investigate how founder teams use their human capital to transfer technology into entrepreneurial opportunities.
