Stöbich Entrepreneurship Promotion Award 2022

More and more start-ups are not developed by individual founders, but in teams. In her dissertation, this year's award winner explores, among other things, the questions of how knowledge is shared and distributed in the early stages of a company in a founding team and how founding ideas are generated.

The ➥ Stöbich Entrepreneurship Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding dissertations in the field of entrepreneurship research each year and was awarded for the second time on October 5, 2022. This year's award went to Dr. Aishwarya Kakatkar of the Technical University of Munich.

Dr. Kakatkar is an economist with international research expertise who studies how trust develops in entrepreneurial teams as a basis for successful collaboration. As an incubator collaborator for startups, her dissertation at the Entrepreneurship Research Institute analyzes how processes and structures of knowledge and ultimately ideas emerge in founding teams. How group-based memory models work, so-called team cognitions, and how ultimately the conviction of a few becomes a motivation of many.

Numerous representatives from science, business and politics as well as the Stöbich family attended the award ceremony in the Goslar showroom of STÖBICH.

The award goes back to the company founder Dr.-Ing. Jochen Stöbich, who passed away on February 24, 2021, leaving behind an unparalleled life's work.