The Search for Impact through Entrepreneurship

Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship · podcastfeed.eu

Did you know that less than 15% of PhDs end up in a tenure track academic career? The good news is that there are other exciting, fulfilling, flexible career paths, which you can shape yourself. Entrepreneurship is one of the alternative paths, which you can explore while still in academia, together with Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship (CSE). In this new podcast series ‘The Search for Impact through Entrepreneurship’, our host will be interviewing current and former researchers from Copenhagen Business School exploring entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is not just about starting a company. By developing your entrepreneurial mindset, you will be better able to: Generate research ideas that meet an actual need and validate whether they have the potential to become a viable business. Grasp the fundamentals of creating a novel startup. Take the steering wheel in your current research and future career. Cultivate i

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Episodes 11

From measuring behavior to settling bills with Kristian Roed Nielsen
2mo ago · 31:28
Meet Associate Professor Kristian Roed Nielsen, from CBS MSC, passionate about understanding human behavior. Kristian is studying tipping points in human behavior, how and when we act or not influenced by people around us. Celebrating with his research group one evening at a restaurant the frustration of splitting the bill triggered his entrepreneurial venture, SplitIT. Over the last 12 months, his idea has pivoted several times and is still maturing.
How to Turn Food Waste into Value using Digital Solutions. With Anika Schröder
4mo ago · 33:03
Meet Postdoc at ITU, former Industrial PhD at CBS DIGI, Anika Schroder, a food nerd with a passion for tackling food waste. She’s working on how to turn food industry waste streams into high-value products using digital solutions to drive new forms of innovation. Her research focuses on digital sustainability: exploring how digital technologies can connect food producers with the right partners to make better use of what would otherwise go to waste. Because often, the challenge isn’t the technology, it’s coordination.
How Can Research Contribute to Modern Business Banking? With Morten Holm
5mo ago · 33:23
Meet Associate Professor Morten Holm from the Department of Accounting at Copenhagen Business School. Morten's research and former corporate career focused on financial value creation. Ten years ago, Morten's research helped a bank develop and implement a novel advisory concept in business banking. It worked so well, they still use it today. Then last year, another bank approached him asking for a similar system based on his work. That’s when the penny dropped: “Maybe this shouldn’t stay in the drawer. Maybe it’s time to leverage my research and build a modern solution for business banking adv
How can decentralised AI utility fight global money laundering with Henrik Axelsen
6mo ago · 33:12
Meet PhD Henrik Axelsen from the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School. In December 2025, he received an Innoexplorer grant for his project: "Decentralized AI utility for financial crime compliance." Henrik calls himself 'a corporate dropout'. After a long career in large corporations mainly within the financial sector, Henrik did a PhD, followed by a postdoc position with the clear vision to become an entrepreneur within the field. Money laundering is a massive global challenge, currently fought by individual banks working in silos. The criminals work in networks, but the
Unlocking the Potential of Preferential Trade Agreements with Sebastian Ahlstich
8mo ago · 37:04
Meet PhD student Sebastian Ahlstich, who, together with assistant professor Jan Stuckatz, has received the first-ever Innoexplorer Grant at CBS from Innovationsfonden. Their project explores how international trade agreements can be made more effective and accessible, with real-world implications for firms, policymakers, and global trade governance. Hear how Sebastian’s impact journey began and how his skills have developed over time across many European countries. How did his interest in preferential trade agreements emerge? And why does he believe that this 'market failure' could be relevant
Create Scalable Societal Impact with Agnes Günther
10mo ago · 31:16
Meet Agnes Günther, PhD, founder of Netsocietal and ATELOS. Hear how Agnes is driven by making a positive difference to society. For her, economic prosperity and societal impact are inseparable. Yet, today, companies’ value creation and ‘doing good’ for society are seen separately and too often understood as opposites. Her ambition is to break down the siloed thinking, which is a barrier to solving some of the most difficult challenges of our time: green transformation, European competitiveness, and new forms of value creation and appropriation. For that, Agnes is a proponent of addressing cha
The Digital Frontier of Accounting with Joachim Elmegaard
11mo ago · 29:40
The Digital Frontier of Accounting with Joachim Elmegaard Meet PhD Joachim Elmegaard, external lecturer at CBS ACC, and founder of Captier. Hear how Joachim is developing a scalable, shelf-automated software for auditors to turn messy client data into smooth, automated workflows. Created by auditors for auditors with a special focus on SMEs. Based on Joachim's domain expertise, research at CBS and his career in the private industry, his dream is to support auditors with automated audit software, to get away from standard operations being able focus more on strategy and future development of th
Curious about Micro Changes? With CEO & PhD Signe Bruskin, enlighten
1y ago · 26:44
Micro changes are the small, everyday changes that often disturb employees much more than big strategic ones. The focus of Signe's work is to understand the mechanisms and how to navigate them. Signe is the founder of enlighten (in 2021), keynote speaker and writer of several books about micro changes in organisations. She holds a PhD from CBS, Department of Organization, where she did her industrial PhD together with a large bank, where she also worked in the field of organizational and leadership development for more than ten years. Today, she is also an external lecturer at CBS, and she val
What are Universities good for? With Vice Dean of Innovation & Impact at CBS Morten Irgens
1y ago · 32:46
Meet Vice Dean of Innovation & Impact at Copenhagen Business School, Morten Irgens. Morten is responsible for the Impact and Innovation Agenda at CBS. But he also has extensive startup experience and founded an AI company, way before it was hot. Morten's career started in entrepreneurship. After ten years in Canada, the company was sold, and Morten returned to Norway, where he supported several universities in defining how they, as a university, can play an increased role within the innovation and impact agenda; and thus, benefit society to an even larger extent than through research and educa
How can Neuropsychology and AI predict Consumer Action? With Dr. Thomas Zöega Ramsøy
1y ago · 35:41
Meet Dr. Thomas Zöega Ramsøy, former CBS Marketing researcher and founder of Neurons. A profound interest in the human brain has driven Thomas’s search for answers for many years through several disciplines. Why are we – humans - behaving the strange way we are? Neuro phycology, study of consciousness, emotional responses, design of metrics to understand the mind and brain better, combined with marketing and business studies has led to the 10-year-old company, Neurons, a world leading company, which today through advanced AI tools can predict how we register, remember, and evaluate what we are
How can Data Analytics Empower Unions? With Stig Strandbæk Nyman
1y ago · 35:32
Meet PhD Stig Strandbæk Nyman, postdoc at CBS DIGI and founder of Labour Analytics. In a nutshell, Stig’s work is to create data tools for workers. As our work is being increasingly digitised, data analytics is becoming part of any toolbox. However, until now, data has primarily been a tool for management. Labour Analytics aim at creating data tools for workers and their unions to improve worker conditions and level the playing field between managers and workers when it comes to data. Listen how Stig is creating a sandbox to co-create tools with the unions.