Stöbich Entrepreneurship Promotion Award 2022

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

The ➥ Stöbich Entrepreneurship Promotion Award recognises outstanding doctoral theses in the field of entrepreneurship research every year and was awarded for the second time on 5 October 2022. This year's award went to Dr Aishwarya Kakatkar from 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 worker for start-ups, her dissertation at the Entrepreneurship Research Institute analyses how processes and structures of knowledge and ultimately ideas emerge in founding teams. How group-related memory models work, so-called team cognitions, and how ultimately the conviction of a few becomes the motivation of many.

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

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