Teemu Kautonen

I am an Associate Professor and the Subject Area Coordinator of Entrepreneurship in Aalto BIZ since 1 January 2014. My role in the subject also includes responsibility over the Master's in Entrepreurship as well as the PhD studies in this field.

In order to nurture my international research network and keep up to date of developments outside the Finnish academia, I hold a part-time research professorship in the Institute for International Management Practice at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK (since 2012).

My research combines economic and psychological perspectives on entrepreneurship. While I appreciate diverse methods of empirical enquiry, my own research has a strong quantitative focus. In fact, it would not be unfair to say that the application of econometric techniques is one of my little passions as a researcher.

My principal current research topics include:

- entrepreneurship and population ageing

- the role of trust in the financial relationships of SMEs

- the psychological processes involved in the translation of entrepreneurial intentions into actions

In addition to being an active ad hoc reviewer for a broad range of academic journals, I am a Consulting Editor for the International Small Business Journal and an editorial board member of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Journal of Trust Research.

I endeavour to collaborate with policy makers and practitioners, including advising (previously and/or currently) ministries in Finland and Germany as well as the OECD on enterprise policy matters.