My Research

Entrepreneurship and digital innovation are the core pillars of my research. I study how new ventures and entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) develop, deploy, and adapt digital capabilities as they navigate uncertainty, growth pressures, and rapid technological change.

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My work contributes to a capability-based understanding of digital entrepreneurship, showing how entrepreneurial actors intentionally build—or unintentionally drift into—digital practices that shape innovation outcomes. Across my research projects, I examine how digital capabilities enable startups to make sense of emerging technologies, integrate them into workflows, and translate them into value. I also investigate how ESOs evolve into more modular, platform-enabled “Support-as-a-Service” providers, reshaping how startups access and engage with entrepreneurial support.

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Collectively, my studies reveal that digital innovation rarely follows a linear plan. Instead, it emerges through a blend of deliberate decisions, improvised adaptations, and the accumulated effects of digital choices made along the way.

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Two insights that consistently surface from my work:

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1. Digital capabilities develop through layered, interdependent practices.
Startups must balance external tools with internally crafted digital solutions while learning to deploy, integrate, and adapt technologies quickly. These layered capabilities shape their ability to experiment, scale, and differentiate.

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2. Entrepreneurial support is being reconfigured by platformisation.
ESOs increasingly use digital platforms to orchestrate resources, personalize support, and aggregate learning across ventures. This shift transforms support processes into more on-demand, scalable, and participatory models.

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Taken together, my research illustrates how startups and ESOs create value—sometimes intentionally, sometimes unexpectedly—through evolving constellations of digital capabilities.

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