Henrik Berglund

I am an associate professor at the Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology. I am also founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Business Venturing Design.

My general research interests are entrepreneurship theory and innovation management. Specifically, I spend much of my time trying to reconceptualize entrepreneurship as a form of artifact-centered design, partly by running the combined research and utilization projects Born Global and Scale Global with funding primarily from Vinnova. As very practical startup accelerator programs, Born Global and Scale Global have helped more than 100 founding teams and their startups, but as sites for research they have also been instrumental in my research. This includes my former PhD student Yashar Mansoori's dissertation on the topic of Entrepreneurial Methods as Vehicles of Entrepreneurial Action. I am also interested in academic entrepreneurship, and especially how appreciating the 'epistemic dimension' of professional identity can help us understand the behaviors and sensemaking of academic entrepreneurs as well as other knowledge workers who combine multiple professional roles. These questions were central to my former PhD student Marouane Bousfiha's dissertation The Lived Experience of Academic Entrepreneurship: The interplay between practice, identity, and context. Combining these two interests, I also try to help research groups design business models based on their research findings as part of EuroLab-4-HPC, an EU funded research center of excellence in High Performance Computing Systems. I do similar work in the area of customized and low-energy computing in TETRAMAX.

I teach the two courses "Creating New Business" (part of the master program Management and Economics of Innovation) and "Creating Technology Based Ventures" (part of the masters program High-Performance Computer Systems), as well as the PhD seminar "Theory of Science". I also organize the local Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Seminar.

Leveraging my academic work, I try to help startups as best I can (pro bono) and occasionally also keynote and consult for larger firms and organizations.

Between 2006 and 2009 I was funded by a three year post doc grant from Handelsbanken. In June 2008 I received the FSF-NUTEK prize for outstanding contributions to entrepreneurship research by a young researcher. I spent 2008 at Stanford (SCANCOR) as a visiting scholar. Between 2015 and 2017 I was a visiting professor at Oslo University's Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Publications

• Berglund, H. and Glaser, V. (2021). The Artifacts of Entrepreneurial Practice.In Thompson, N., Byrne, O., Teague, B., and Jenkins, A. (Eds.). Edgar Elgar, Cheltenham, UK

• Berglund, H., Bousfiha, M. and Mansoori, Y. (2020). Opportunities as Artifacts and Entrepreneurship as Design. Academy of Management Review. 45(4): 825-846.

• Berglund, H., Dimov, D. and Wennberg, K. (2018). Beyond Bridging Rigor and Relevance: The Three-Body Problem in Entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing Insights. 9: 87-91.

• Berglund, H. and Korsgaard, S. (2017). Opportunities, Time, and Mechanisms in Entrepreneurship: On the Practical Irrelevance of Propensities. Academy of Management Review. 42(2): 731-734.

• Sandström, C. and Berglund, H. (2017). A New Perspective on the Innovator’s Dilemma - Exploring the role of Entrepreneurial Incentives. International Journal of Technology Management. Special Issue: Leveraging Technological Change - the Role of Business Models and Ecosystems. 75(1/2/3/4): 142-156.

• Korsgaard, S., Berglund, H., Blenker, P. and Thrane, C. (2016). A Tale of Two Kirzners: Time, Uncertainty and the ’Nature’ of Opportunities. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. 40(4): 867-889.

• Berglund, H.and Wennberg, K. (2016). Pragmatic entrepreneurs and institutionalized scholars? On the path-dependent nature of entrepreneurship scholarship. In Landstrom, H., Parhankangas, A., Fayolle, A., & Riot, P. (Eds.). Challenging Entrepreneurship Research. pp. 37-52. Routledge.

• Berglund, H. (2015). Between Cognition and Discourse: Phenomenology and the Study of Entrepreneurship. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. Special Issue: Embracing Qualitative Research Philosophies and Methods. 21(3): 472-288.

• Sandström, C., Berglund, H. and Magnusson, M. (2014). Symmetric Assumptions in the Theory of Disruptive Innovation - Theoretical and Managerial Implications . Creativity and Innovation Management. 23(4): 472-483.

• Berglund, H. and Sandström, C. (2013). Business Model Innovation from an Open Systems Perspective: Structural challenges and managerial solutions. International Journal of Product Development, special issue Business Model Innovation. 18(3/4): 274-285.

• Berglund, H. (2011). Early stage VC investing: Comparing California and Scandinavia. Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance. Vol. 13. (2): 119-145.

• Berglund, H. (2011). (Re)lectures des opportunités, fragmentation du champ et fondements empiriques de l'entrepreneuriat - William B. Gartner Interview du 26 février 2011. Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat. Vol. 10. (1).

• Berglund, H. and Sarasvathy, S. (2010). On the Relevance of Decision Making in Entrepreneurial Decision Making. In Landström, H. and Lohrke,L. (Eds.). The Historical Foundations of Entrepreneurship Research, pp. 75-93. Edward Elgar, Aldershott, UK.

• Yar Hamidi, D., Wennberg, K. and Berglund, H. (2008). Creativity in Entrepreneurship Education, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development (Special Issue on Entrepreneurship Education). 15(2): 304-320.

• Berglund, H. (2008). Entreprenörskap och fenomenologi: att studera entreprenörskap som levd erfarenhet, FSF-NUTEK Prize Award Essay. Published by Entreprenörskapsforum. (In Swedish).

• Berglund, H. (2007). Opportunities as Existing and Created: A Study of Entrepreneurs in the Swedish Mobile Internet Industry, Journal of Enterprising Culture. 15(3): 243-273.

• Berglund, H. (2007). Risk Conception and Risk Management in Corporate Innovation: Lessons from two Swedish Cases, International Journal of Innovation Management. 11(4): 497-513.

• Berglund, H., Hellström, T. Sjölander, S. (2007) Entrepreneurial Learning and the Role of Venture Capitalists, Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 9(3): 165-181.

• Berglund, H. (2007). Researching Entrepreneurship as Lived Experience, In Neergaard, H. and Ulhøi, J. (Eds). Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Entrepreneurship, pp. 75-93. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.

• Wennberg, K. and Berglund, H. (2006). Social Networking and the Development of New Ventures. In Beyerlein, M. (Ed). Innovation through Collaboration. Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work, Vol.12, pp. 203-225. JAI Press.

• Berglund, H. and Wennberg, K. (2006). Creativity Among Entrepreneurship Students: Comparing Engineering and Business Education, International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning. (Special Issue on Enterprise), 16(5): 366-379.

• Berglund, H. and Hellström, T. (2002). Enacting Risk in Independent Technological Innovation, International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management. 3(2/3/4): 205-221.

• Hellström, T., Hellström, C. and Berglund, H. (2002). The Innovating Self: Exploring Self Among a Group of Technological Innovators, Journal of Managerial Psychology, 17(4): 267-286.