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		Maija Renko Assistant Professor of Managerial Studies PhD Business Administration, Florida International University, 2008 DSc Business Administration, Turku School of Economics, Finland, 2006 MSc Economics & Business Administration, Turku School of Economics, Finland, 2000 Phone: (312) 413-8237 Office:2211 University Hall Email: maija@uic.edu 601 S Morgan Street, MC 243 Chicago, IL 60607 Download CV
Teaching Interests Entrepreneurship, Business planning, Small business management ,Strategic management
Research Interests Strategic success factors in high technology ventures, Strategic entrepreneurship, International entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition, Entrepreneurial leadership, Innovation in entrepreneurial ventures, Entrepreneurial mindset, Market orientation of technology intensive firms
Awards and Honors Faculty advisor, Best Buy case competition for MBA students, April 2008 Best Innovation Paper award, Council of Latin American Management Schools 40th Anniversary Conference (CLADEA), October 28-31, 2007. 2005 Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Award
Experience Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007 - Present Visiting Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Florida International University, 2006 - 2007 Graduate Assistant, Florida International University, 2005 - 2006 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 2004
Recent Publications Renko Maija, Carsrud Alan & Brännback Malin (2009) The effect of a market orientation, entrepreneurial orientation, and technological capability on innovativeness: A study of young biotechnology ventures in the US and in Scandinavia. Journal of Small Business Management Vol. 47, Issue 3, July 2009. Renko Maija, Brännback Malin & Carsrud Alan (2008) Sources, development and uses of innovation in modern biotechnology. International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship. Vol. 1, No. 4, 345-362. Carsrud Alan, Brännback Malin, Nordberg Leif & Renko Maija (2009) Cognitive Maps and Perceptions of Entrepreneurial Growth: A quasi-experimental study in the differences between technology entrepreneurs, corporate managers, and students. Journal of Enterprising Culture, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1-24. Renko Maija, Carsrud Alan & Brännback Malin (2008) The living dead - Why they turned out that way? In: Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Proceedings of the 2008 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1346073 Brännback Malin, Carsrud Alan & Renko Maija (2007) Exploring the born global concept in the biotechnology context. Journal of Enterprising Culture, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 79-100. Jaakkola Elina & Renko Maija (2007) Critical Innovation Characteristics Influencing Acceptability of a New Pharmaceutical Product Format. Journal of Marketing Management, Vol. 23, No. 3-4, pp. 327-346. Tikkanen Joni & Renko Maija (2006) Developing innovation networks - the art of interorganisational collaboration in high-technology innovation. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 6(6), pp. 573-590. Kundu Sumit K. & Renko Maija (2005) Explaining export performance: A comparative study of international new ventures in Finnish and Indian software industry. Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence, and Growth, Volume 8, edited by Dean A. Shepherd and Jerome A. Katz, pp. 43-84, Elsevier 2005 Renko Maija, Carsrud Alan, Brännback Malin & Jalkanen Juho (2005) Building market orientation in biotechnology SMEs: balancing scientific advances. International Journal of Biotechnology, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 250-268