Friederike Welter#
| Membership Number: | 5844 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ifm-bonn.org https://www.wiwi.uni-siegen.de/welter/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4831-9523 |
| Twitter: | @f_welter |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/friederikewelter/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013,02 President and Managing Director, IfM Bonn
- 2013,02 Professor of SME Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Siegen, Germany
- 2008,10 - 2013,01 Associate Dean of Research, and Professor of Entrepreneurship, Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Jönköping, Sweden
- 2005 - 2011 Guest professor, SSE Riga, Latvia
- 2004,10 - 2008,09 Professor of SME Management, University of Siegen, Germany, since 2005/08 Full Professor
- 1993,02 - 2006,02 Researcher, RWI Essen (leave of absence from 2004/10), 2003 - 2004: Deputy head of research group "Craft enterprises, small enterprises and entrepreneurship development"
Fields of Scholarship
- Entrepreneurship policies
- SME and Mittelstand enterprises
- Entrepreneurial diversity
- Gender and entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship and history
- Entrepreneurship in transition economies
- Contextual entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship
- Women entrepreneurship
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Inducted as "21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow"
- 2017 Greif Center Research Impact Award (for the most impactful publication in top management / entrepreneurship journals)
- 2015 Diana International Research Group Legacy Award for mentoring junior researchers and for research impact on women's entrepreneurship
- 2014 Wilford L. White Fellow of the International Council of Small Business (ICSB)
- 2011 Fellow of the European Council of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ECSB)
- 2005 TeliaSonera Endowed Professorship for Entrepreneurship, Stockholm School of Economics Riga, awarded for research on entrepreneurship in transition economies
- 2003 Shortlisted for Science Prize “Society needs Science” of Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, nominated by Leibniz-Society
