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Katharina Scheidgen
Technische Universität Berlin
School VI: Planning Building Environment
Department of Sociology
Fraunhoferstraße 33-36
Sekretariatszeichen FH 9-1
10587 Berlin
Germany
katharina.scheidgen@innovation.tu-berlin.de
Tel.: | 29115 |
Room: | FH 825 |
Research project:
Networking for Innovation: Entrepreneurial Networking in Berlin and Silicon Valley. A Comparison.
My PhD-project compares tie formation of innovative start- ups and university spin-o s in Berlin and Silicon Valley. Thus, I address one of the pressing questions concerning entrepreneurial networking: How do entrepreneurs create relations during the founding process and what factors influence this process? While previous research focused on the effects of networks on venture success, I contribute to the still minor, but growing research body that focusses on the creation of relationships. I analyze the practices of tie formation from a sociological perspective based on Giddens’ structuration theory.
In my multiple case study, I compare innovative start-ups and university spin-offs in Berlin and Silicon Valley, focussing on new ventures in their early founding stages. Initial findings show significant differences concerning how and with whom innovative start-ups and university spin-offs in Berlin create personal and organizational relationships. In Silicon Valley, both types of new ventures show similar networking practices, they form ties with similar actors in similar ways. Thus, new ventures with different resource needs have significantly different networking practices in Berlin, but comparably similar ones in Silicon Valley. My research shows not only that, but also how tie formation is shaped by context-specific templates for legitimate networking, incorporating norms and institutions about who is legit partner and how to approach him, and anticipated expectations of others.
Publications:
Scheidgen, Katharina (forthcoming): Social Contexts in Team Formation: Why Do Independent Start-Ups and University Spin-Offs Form Teams Differently? Special Issue: Entrepreneurial Groups: definition, forms, and historic change. Historical Social Research
Scheidgen, Katharina (2018): Gründen als Modus des Innovierens: Netzwerkbildung von Start-ups und Spin-offs im Innovationsprozess. In: Hergesell, Jannis; Maibaum, Arne; Minnetian, Clelia; Sept, Ariane (editors): Innovationsphänomene. Modi und Effekte der Innovationsgesellschaft. Springer, Wiesbaden.
Roth, Philip; Scheidgen, Katharina; Ortiz, André; Maibaum, Arne (2017): Conference Report: Bridges over Troubled Water. Die Konstitution von Netzwerken im Innovationsprozess. Soziopolis
Oehme, Katharina (2013): Rahmen und Routinen der Techniknutzung. Was kann man aus Experimenten über alltägliche Techniknutzung lernen? TUTS-WP-2-2013, TU Berlin
Presentations:
07/2019: How entrepreneurs acquire resources from the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Symposium "Temporal Dynamics in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems" at Herrenhaussen Castle, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Hannover
04/2019: Entrepreneurial networking in Berlin and Silicon Valley. A Comparison. Invited talk: Brown Bag Lecture at NIKOS-Entrepreneurship Department, University of Twente, Netherlands
04/2019: Wie Start-ups und Spin-offs Netzwerke bilden. Berlin und Silicon Valley im Vergleich. Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Organisationssoziologie, Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg
04/2019: Understanding resource akquisition in entrepreneurial teams: The relation of personal and organizational networks. Workshop des DFG-Netzwerks "Venturing together", TU München
02/2019: Philip Roth und Katharina Scheidgen: Lokale Kulturen der Formation von Ratgebernetzwerken im Kontext von Innovationsversuchen, Frühjahrstagung der DGS-Sektion Soziologische Netzwerkforschung, Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Cologne
09/2018: Philip Roth and Katharina Scheidgen: Eigenlogiken der Netzwerkgenese – Von der systematischen Bedeutung kontextspezifischen Wissens über legitime Praktiken für die Genese von Netzwerken im Innovationsprozess. 39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Göttingen
08/2018: Social Contexts in Team Formation. Why do Start-ups and Spin-offs Form Teams Differently? 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, USA
06/2018: Suntje Schmidt, Timo Braun, and Katharina Scheidgen: Temporal Dynamics in Entrepreneurial Networks and Ecosystems. 3rd Workshop of the Scientific Network „Temporary Organizing“, Tilburg University, Niederlande
06/2018: Katharina Scheidgen and Thomas Schmidt: How networking practices constitute entrepreneurial ecosystems. Babson Conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, Irland
06/2018: Networking for Innovation: Entrepreneurial Networking in Berlin and Silicon Valley. A Comparison. Doctoral Consortium, Babson Conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, Irland
04/2018: Social Contexts in Team Formation: Why Do Independent Start-ups and University Spin-offs Form Teams Differently?, Workshop: "Venturing together! Cross-disciplinary network on entrepreneurial groups". TU Berlin
11/2017: Network development during the founding process. A comparison of start-ups and university spin-offs. Workshop of the Working Group "Network Analysis and Organizations", Heidelberg
07/2017: The impact of organizational and interorganizational practices on the governance of fields. 33rd EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen
07/2017: Network development processes of start-ups and university spin-offs. EGOS Pre-Colloquium PhD Workshop, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen
05/2017: Embedding in fields by embedded networking: Start-ups’ networking practices in distinctive contexts. The Fifth Austrian Early Scholar Workshop in Management, WU Vienna
03/2017: Network development processes of start-ups in innovation-specific fields. New Institutionalism Workshop, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
02/2017: Networking practices of start-ups: Influenced by the context, influencing network design?. 2nd Workshop on Entrepreneurship as Practice, UCD School of Business, Dublin
10/2016: How fields matter: Network development of start-ups in innovation-specific contexts. ISBE Conference, Paris
10/2016: Innovationsspezifische Netzwerkbildung von Start-ups im Innovationsprozess. Workshop: Bridges Over Troubled Water: Die Konstitution von Netzwerken im Innovationsprozess, TU Berlin
05/2016: Innovation-specific network development processes of start-ups. The Fourth Austrian Early Scholar Workshop in Management, JKU Linz
Workshops:
07/2019: Temporal Dynamics in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Herrenhäuser Symposium, Hannover, together with Suntje Schmidt (HU Berlin and IRS Erkner) and Timo Braun (FU Berlin), funded by Volkswagen Foundation. www.tdee-symposium.org
01/2017: Organisation of the workshop: „Process Research and research on interorganisational collaboration“ with Prof. Hans Berends, VU Amsterdam
10/2016: Organisation of the workshop: Bridges Over Troubled Water: The constitution of networks during innovation processes, Graduate School „Innovation Society Today.“, TU Berlin. www.konstitution-von-netzwerken.de
CV:
since 04/ 2015 | PhD candidate, DFG Graduate School „Innovation Society Today“, TU Berlin |
02/2018 - 03/2018 | Research stay in Silicon Valley, California (USA) for data collection, funded by DAAD scholarship |
09/2013 - 11/2013 | Research position at PSI transcom (software development company), gathering data for my master thesis |
08/2012 - 10/2012 | Research position at the German Emission Trading Authority at the German Environment Agency, gathering data for a research project within the masters program |
04/2011 - 02/2014 | Tutor in the subject area of Science and Technology Studies, Institut for Sociology, TU Berlin |
01/2010 - 06/2011 | Student assistant at Center for Technology and Society, DFG-project “User-Model” in cooperation with the Telekom Laboratories |
09/2009 - 01/2010 | Semester abroad at Corvinus University, Budapest |
10/2007 - 09/2014 | Bachelor and masters program in Sociology and Technology Studies, TU Berlin |