Teemu Kautonen

Prof. Dr. Teemu Kautonen

Teemu is an Associate Professor and the Subject Area Coordinator of Entrepreneurship in Aalto BIZ since 1 January 2014. His 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 his international research network and keep up to date of developments outside the Finnish academia, he hold a part-time research professorship in the Institute for International Management Practice at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK (since 2012).

His research combines economic and psychological perspectives on entrepreneurship. While he appreciates diverse methods of empirical enquiry, his 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 his little passions as a researcher. His principal current research topics include (1) entrepreneurship and population ageing, (2) the role of trust in the financial relationships of SMEs, and (3) 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, he is a Consulting Editor for the International Small Business Journal and an editorial board member of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Journal of Trust Research. Teemu endeavours 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.