Brown Bag by Prof. Dr. Stephanie Birkner - Gender and Technopreneurship: Research overview and transfer potential

Stephanie Birkner is junior professor in the field of female entrepreneurship at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg in Germany. Prior to this, she was appointed as acting professor with a focus on business simulations at the Jade University of Applied Sciences in Germany. She graduated in business administration (University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, also in Germany) and received her doctorate in consulting research from the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Dr. Birkner is an active member of the scholarly associations ECSB (European Council for Small Business) and the FGF (Förderkreis Gründungsforschung e.V.), initiating and leading the FGF “Gender & Entrepreneurship” standing working group. In addition to social science approaches in the context of digital transformation with a focus on topics such as entrepreneurial identity or talent profiling, she is particularly interested in engineering and natural science (public) health perspectives on gendered innovation. As a certified personal coach and LSP facilitator, she supports academic start-ups. Since 2015 she has been gaining her own practical entrepreneurship experiences as co-founder of GREP: German Real Estate Pioneers GmbH. Her experiences here inform her lectures at the IREBS (University of Regensburg, Germany) in places such as the “Digital Real Estate Manager” study program.