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PhD Candidate of the 2nd cohort
Subsequent position:
Following the Research Training Group, Katharina Scheidgen works in the project "Solidarität mit Solo-Selbständigen: Ambivalenzen der Soforthilfen" at the Department Sociology of Organizations at the Institute of Sociology (Arnold Windeler) at the TU Berlin.
Research project
Tie Formation in Silicon Valley and Berlin: How Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Impact Interorganizational Tie Formation of Innovative Growth Companies
Networks are highly relevant for innovation as well as for entrepreneurship. Especially newly founded, innovative high-growth companies heavily rely on resources from their environment—foremost the respective entrepreneurial ecosystem—to develop innovative technologies. Although extant research showed the importance of personal and interorganizational networks during innovation and entrepreneurship processes, much less is known about how new ventures actually form these important relationships. Innovative growth companies face particular challenges when forming interorganizational ties. Especially during the early founding stages, they need to form interorganizational ties under conditions of high uncertainty and power asymmetry. My qualitative case study compares interorganizational tie formation of innovative start-ups and university spin-offs in Silicon Valley and Berlin. Based on 85 interviews and observations of 26 entrepreneurship events, I show that personal ties can be used in very different ways to form interorganizational ties in the entrepreneurial ecosystems in Silicon Valley and in Berlin. The importance of personal ties for interorganizational tie formation varies between the two entrepreneurial ecosystems. The strength of personal ties influenced by the institutional environment.
Personal Website: www.katharina-scheidgen.com
Publications:
Scheidgen, Katharina (2020): Degrees of Integration: How a Fragmented Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Promotes Different Types of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. Online First.
Scheidgen, Katharina (2019): 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, 44 (4), p. 42-74
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:
07/2020: The Strength of Personal Ties: Interorganizational Tie Formation in Innovative Entrepreneurship. EGOS Conference, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
07/2020: Interorganizational Networks, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, and Entrepreneurial Teams. EGOS Pre-Colloquium Post-Doc and Early Career Scholars Workshop, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
05/2020: The Strength of Personal Ties: Scripts of Interorganizational Tie Formation in Innovative Entrepreneurship. 8th Austrian Early Scholar Workshop in Management, JKU Linz, Linz
03/2020: Innovative Growth Companies and Entrepreneurial Teams: The Relationship of Personal and Interorganizational Networks. DGNet Conference, Schader Foundation, Darmstadt
09/2019: Philip Roth and Katharina Scheidgen: Local Cultures of Tie Formation: The Impact of Context-specific Institutions on Advice Tie Formation. 4th European Conference on Social Networks, ETH Zurich, Zurich
09/2019: How New Ventures form Organizational Ties: The Varying Impact of Personal Ties in Berlin and Silicon Valley. 4th European Conference on Social Networks, ETH Zurich, Zurich
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:
03/2020 and onwards | Visiting Scholar at Lund University (Sweden), Department of Business Administration |
02/2020 | Defense of PhD thesis "Tie formation in Silicon Valley and Berlin. The impact of entrepreneurial ecosystem on interorganizational tie formation." |
10/2019 - 12/2019 | Scholarship from TU Berlin for completing the thesis |
04/2015 - 9/2019 | PhD candidate with full scholarship, 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 |