Clarkson’s Reh Family Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership, Christian Felzensztein is making a mark on entrepreneurship with global impact presenting his latest research on how informal entrepreneurship is helping rural communities to go out of poverty at the annual meeting of the Business Association of Latin American Studies in Costa Rica.
“This is an important topic in the United Nations policy agenda and the U.N Sustainable Development Goals for reducing poverty globally. And this shows how Clarkson’s university is positively impacting diverse industry sectors and countries conducting world-class research with social impact” stated professor Felzensztein.
Felzensztein is also presenting during April his forthcoming book titled “A Research Agenda for Startups, Scale-up, Scale-Down, and Re-Scaling Strategies” at the California Entrepreneurship Educators’s Conference in San Diego, CA. and has been invited to be a keynote speaker at the MBA inaugural academic year at Universidad Austral de Chile in Latin America. This is in addition to his recent appointment as an Executive Board Member for the Entrepreneurship Committee at the Economic Development Agency of Chile, which recognized Felzensztein’s extensive expertise on entrepreneurship and regional development.
His impactful research agenda includes the study of startups’ scaling-up strategies, marketing strategies for start-up growth, and technology adaptation strategies for new ventures in regional industry clusters. This is in addition to new international research projects on ethical AI governance for sustainable innovation in Start-ups.
Felzensztein holds a PhD and a M.Sc. in entrepreneurship and international marketing from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland UK; Executive Education from Harvard Business School, the Weitz Center for Sustainable Studies in Rehovot, Israel, the University of Oxford in the UK, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT.