PhD Position in Entrepreneurship, AI, and Labor Market Disruption - DTU Entrepreneurship

Are you interested in exploring the following questions? - How are artificial intelligence (AI) and automation reshaping individuals' transitions to entrepreneurship? - How do individuals' skills, experience, and technological readiness influence the types of businesses they create and their subsequent performance? - How do these patterns vary across countries and institutional contexts?

DTU Entrepreneurship invites applications for a three-year PhD scholarship as part of an international research project entitled The New Landscape of Necessity Entrepreneurship:

• Understanding Entrepreneurial Transitions in an Era of AI- and Automation-Driven Labor Market Disruption.
• The project investigates how AI and automation reshape entrepreneurial transitions, with particular attention to individuals who start businesses following unemployment.

The PhD candidate will join an international research team involving Associate Professor Argyro (Iro) Nikiforou at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Professor Marc Gruber at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and Professor John C. Dencker at Northeastern University, USA.

Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the project combines large-scale surveys, Danish administrative registry data, and qualitative interviews across Denmark, Switzerland, and Greece1 …