Technology-based Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Duties

The successful applicant’s duties will include teaching (at undergraduate and graduate levels) and conducting research in Technology-based Entrepreneurship and Innovation, with an intellectual focus on understanding and promoting the underlying mechanisms (at the individual, organizational or industry levels) that drive technology-based value creation.  

Requirements

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. (or be currently pursuing studies towards the degree) in fields akin to technology-based entrepreneurship and innovation, such as technology management, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, or entrepreneurial finance. Industry experience relating to startups, corporate innovation, managerial cognition, organizational development and change management are also valued, but not required. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the School of Engineering, it is important that the applicant is willing to work collaboratively; some international experience is also desirable.

The skill to conduct high-quality, scholarly research is a minimum requirement. In addition, candidates should be qualified to work with academic teams, and lead scientific and industry-liaison initiatives. Experience in interdisciplinary collaboration is highly valued as the selected candidate will be expected to interact with other faculty within the Department and School, participate in and develop research projects, and be involved in an active research agenda.

Excellence in teaching is also expected, and selected candidates will be required to create new undergraduate and graduate courses and teach traditional courses in entrepreneurship, innovation, organizational behavior, or entrepreneurial strategy, as well as to participate actively in the development of the curriculum. Successful candidates will be required to teach three semester-long undergraduate or graduate courses per year. Spanish language is not required at the time of application but should become the language of teaching before the end of the second year.

In sum, applicants must demonstrate potential for excellence and a strong academic vocation for all aspects of university life, be highly motivated to continuously improve their teaching skills, have a genuine interest in getting involved with our graduate programs (specially the doctoral program) and be able to develop and maintain an active research agenda (publications, research grants, etc.).

Research group:

Professors:

• Michael Leatherbee (Ph.D. Stanford)
• Julio Pertuzé (Ph.D. MIT)
• Gonzalo Valdes (Ph.D. Stanford)
• Alfonso Cruz (Ph.D. Sussex)
• Roberto Vassolo (Ph.D. Purdue)

Research areas / subjects:

We are a young, but entrepreneurial academic group. We focus on conducting high-quality research and innovatively transferring frontier knowledge to industry, government and students. We value the connection between science and praxis, as we believe it keeps us relevant for the betterment of society.

Our research areas include entrepreneurial phenomena (i.e., beliefs, behaviors and capabilities for new-venture performance), innovation policies (i.e., experimental design and policy prescriptions), early-stage venture teams and opportunity discovery (i.e., lean startup method and business models).

We have founded the Evidence-based Policy and Innovation Research lab (http://epiclab.uc.cl) to help diffuse our knowledge creation and garner resources to accelerate our research agenda.

Selected publications:

• The Effects of Business Accelerators on Venture Performance: Evidence from Start-Up Chile, Review of Financial Studies
• The Lean Startup Method: Early-Stage Teams And Hypothesis-Based Probing Of Business Ideas, Strategic Entrpreneurship Journal
• A microfoundational model of real options reasoning: The roles of individual search propensity and perceived uncertainty, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
• A Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Uncertainty and Business Opportunity Identification: Exploration as a Mediator and Entrepreneurial Self­-Efficacy as a Moderator, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 
• Rest, Zest, and My Innovative Best: Sleep and Mood as Drivers of Entrepreneurs’ Innovative Behavior, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 
• Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
• Natural laboratories as policy instruments for technological learning and institutional capacity building: The case of Chile’s astronomy cluster, Research Policy
• Political uncertainty and innovation: The relative effects of national leaders’ education levels and regime systems on firm-level patent applications, Research Policy
• Liability of Middleness Revisited: The Advantages for Mid-sized Competitors in Natural Resources Industries, Management and Organization Review
• More structure or better social practices? Using a contingency lens to address ambidexterity gaps in innovative SMEs, International Journal of Emerging Markets
• Technology, Gender and Organizations: A Systematic Mapping Study, IEEE Access
• Standardization can be good for exploration: a social capital view of the productivity dilemma in operational teams, Production Planning & Control
• The effects of importing activities on technological and non-technological innovation: Evidence from Chilean firms, International Journal of Emerging Markets
• Using metacognition to promote active learning in large business management classes, Innovations in Education and Teaching International

Application Instructions:

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Finance II

Duties

Conducting independent research and high quality teaching (at undergraduate and graduate levels). The selected candidate should conduct research in Finance. Areas of interest include Financial Engineering, Financial Econometrics, Quantitative Finance, Financial Accounting, Entrepreneurial Finance, Corporate Finance, and Behavioral Finance. Additional duties include knowledge transfer, outreach, and university administrative tasks.

Requirements

Applicants must be pursuing or committed to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the short term in a top world institution in the area of Finance. If at the time of hiring, the selected candidate has graduated from the Ph.D., she/he will be hired as Assistant Professor. Otherwise, the selected candidate will be hired as Adjunct Instructor until the moment of her/his graduation from the Ph.D., when she/he will be promoted to Assistant Professor according to the University Regulations.

As an Assistant Professor, she/he will be expected to lead an active research agenda, formulate and develop independent research projects, apply to external research grants, and lead scientific and industry-liaison initiatives. Due to the interdisciplinary nature and focus of the School of Engineering, active interactions with local and international collaborators are expected.

Excellence in teaching is mandatory. As an assistant professor, the selected candidate will create new courses, as well as teach traditional courses in related areas. She/he should also participate actively in the development and improvement of the curriculum. Teaching load comprises three semester-long undergraduate or graduate courses per year.

Consequently, applicants must demonstrate potential for excellence and a strong vocation for all aspects of university life, be able to develop and maintain an active scientific research agenda (producing publications, research grants, among others), be highly motivated to continuously improve their teaching skills, and have a genuine interest in getting involved in our graduate programs (especially the doctoral program).

Candidates do not need to be fluent in Spanish at the time of application, but should be prepared to learn the language well enough to teach in Spanish in the short term (two years maximum). English is a requirement.

Research group:

Professors:

• Gonzalo Cortázar
• Nicolás Majluf
• Tomás Reyes

Research areas / subjects:

Contingent Claim Valuation, Commodity Pricing, Real Options, Emerging Markets, Corporate Finance, Behavioral Economics and Finance, Project Evaluation.

Application Instructions:

Please follow this link:   https://www.ing.uc.cl/trabaja-con-nosotros/areas-to-apply-2/

Digital Transformation

Full-time faculty joint position in the area of Digital Transformation between the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Department of Computer Science.

Digital Transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business, changing fundamentally how organizations operate and deliver value to their customers. Digital Transformation goes beyond incorporating technology into an organization, focusing on how this technology is assimilated by organizational members and applied to implement new business models and new productive processes. A successful Digital Transformation researcher must have a twofold profile: a strong background in Management (e.g., Organizational Behavior, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and/or Sociology), as well as in Computing and Information Systems.

Duties

High quality teaching (at undergraduate and graduate levels), and conducting independent research. In teaching, we expect the applicant to be able to teach courses in both the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (e.g., Technology Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Competitive Intelligence) and the Department of Computer Science (e.g., Information Systems, Digital Transformation and Information Technology, Information Technology Management, IT Strategy). In research, the applicant should conduct research in any of the topics included in Digital Transformation. Additional duties include knowledge transfer, outreach, and university administrative tasks.

 Requirements

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. (or be currently pursuing studies towards the degree) preferably in Management (i.e., Strategy, Organization, Entrepreneurship, or related disciplines) and undergraduate or advanced studies in Computer Science, or in Computer Science or Information Systems and undergraduate or advanced studies in Industrial Engineering or Business.

Applicants must be researchers whose research area is related to the digital transformation of organizations, both private and public. This research area is defined as the study of information technologies that transform organizational functions, radically improving the functioning of organizations and/or society. Research might focus on operational improvements, on the creation of new innovative value for users/customers, on strategies to implement cultural changes, and/or on strategies to compete with new business models. Moreover, this research area might seek to study the technological assimilation of private and public organizations, to reduce the growing technological inequality between more and less developed societies.

Digital transformation requires a multidisciplinary effort. Therefore, it is expected that the selected applicant can collaborate with researchers who are currently conducting research at the School of Engineering, in related areas such as Industrial Engineering and Information Technology. Applicants must have a high potential for scientific productivity and the ability to work in teams. Applicants are expected to have the ability to publish in high impact journals in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy or information systems, where digital transformation is addressed in a multidisciplinary manner.

It is important to note that the research conducted by the selected applicant should have a direct or indirect impact on the development of the country, and on the initiatives promoted by the Chilean State within the framework of the Presidential Instruction for Digital Transformation (https://digital.gob.cl/plan/instructivo-transformacion, in Spanish), or similar future projects. Therefore, the selected applicant is expected to be able to build bridges between the School of Engineering and other academic units, such as the School of Government.

Candidates do not need to be fluent in Spanish at the time of application, but should be prepared to learn the language well enough to teach in this language in the short term (two years maximum). Fluency in English is a requirement.

Applicants must demonstrate a strong commitment to all aspects of academic life and common goals of the institution. They must be highly motivated to continuously improve their teaching skills, have a genuine interest in getting involved with our graduate programs (specially the doctoral program) and be able to develop and maintain an active research agenda leading to high quality publications, securing research grants, generating and participating in interdisciplinary projects, leading scientific and industry-liaison initiatives, strengthening and creating national and international academic networks, etc. The candidate will also be expected to create new undergraduate and graduate courses and teach traditional courses in related areas.

Application Instructions:

Please follow this link:   https://www.ing.uc.cl/trabaja-con-nosotros/areas-to-apply-2/

Finance I

Duties

High quality teaching (at undergraduate and graduate levels), and conducting independent research. Additional duties include knowledge transfer, outreach, and university administrative tasks. The new position in Finance should conduct research in Finance. Areas of interest include Financial Engineering, Financial Econometrics, Quantitative Finance, Financial Accounting, Entrepreneurial Finance, Corporate Finance, and Behavioral Finance.

Requirements

Applicants must hold, be currently pursuing, or committed to pursue in the short term a Ph.D. degree in Finance or related areas in a top world institution. The selected candidate will be expected to participate and formulate independent research projects and apply to external grants. Due to the interdisciplinary nature and focus of the School of Engineering, active interactions are also expected with local and international collaborators. If the selected candidate does not have the PhD degree, she/he will be hired as Adjunct Instructor until the moment of her/his graduation, when she/he will be promoted to Assistant Professor according to the University Regulations.

The skills to conduct high-quality research and teaching is a mandatory requirement. Candidates should be qualified to perform work within academic teams and lead scientific and industry-liaison initiatives. Experience in interdisciplinary collaboration is highly valued as the selected candidate will be expected to interact with other people within the Department and School, to develop independent research projects, and to be involved in an active research agenda.

Excellence in teaching is also mandatory, and selected candidates will be required to create new undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as teach traditional courses in related areas. They should also participate actively in the development and improvement of the curriculum. Teaching load comprises three semester-long undergraduate or graduate courses per year. Spanish language is not required at the time of application, but fluency in Spanish should be enough to teach courses in this language before the end of the second year.

Consequently, applicants must demonstrate potential for excellence and a strong vocation for all aspects of university life, be highly motivated to continuously improve their teaching skills, have a genuine interest in getting involved in our graduate programs (especially the doctoral program) and be able to develop and maintain an active research agenda (producing publications, research grants, among others).

Candidates do not need to be fluent in Spanish at the time of application, but should be prepared to learn the language well enough to teach in this language in the short term (two years maximum). English is a requirement.

Research group:

Professors:

• Gonzalo Cortázar
• Nicolás Majluf
• Tomás Reyes

Research areas / subjects:

Contingent Claim Valuation, Commodity Pricing, Real Options, Emerging Markets, Corporate Finance, Behavioral Economics and Finance, Project Evaluation.

Application Instructions:

Please follow this link:   https://www.ing.uc.cl/trabaja-con-nosotros/areas-to-apply-2/

Marketing Analytics

Duties

The successful applicant’s duties will include teaching (at undergraduate and graduate levels) and conducting research in Marketing Analytics. In particular, the applicant should be able to apply innovative quantitative methodologies (including Data Science) to leading edge research in Marketing Science and its application to technology-based products and services.

Requirements

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. (or be currently pursuing studies towards the degree) in Marketing or related areas with a strong background in Analytics and Decision Sciences. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the School of Engineering, it is important that the applicant is willing to work collaboratively; some international experience is also desirable.

The skill to conduct high-quality, scholarly research is a minimum requirement. In addition, candidates should be qualified to work with academic teams, and lead scientific and industry-liaison initiatives. Experience in interdisciplinary collaboration is highly valued as the selected candidate will be expected to interact with other faculty within the Department and School, participate in and develop research projects, and be involved in an active research agenda.

Excellence in teaching is also expected, and selected candidates will be required to create new undergraduate and graduate courses and teach traditional courses like Marketing, Statistics, Data Science, as well as to participate actively in the development of the curriculum. Successful candidates will be required to teach three semester-long undergraduate or graduate courses per year. Spanish language is not required at the time of application but should become the language of teaching before the end of the second year.

In sum, applicants must demonstrate potential for excellence and a strong academic vocation for all aspects of university life, be highly motivated to continuously improve their teaching skills, have a genuine interest in getting involved with our graduate programs (specially the doctoral program) and be able to develop and maintain an active research agenda (publications, research grants, etc.).

Research group:

Professors:

• Juan Carlos Ferrer
• Mathias Klapp
• Alejandro Mac Cawley
• Sergio Maturana
• Jorge Vera

Research areas / subjects:

Marketing, decision support systems, supply chain operation, urban logistics and home delivery, dynamic and stochastic optimization, revenue management & pricing, workforce management, operations research, operations management, agri-food chains, routing and logistics.

Application Instructions:

Please follow this link:   https://www.ing.uc.cl/trabaja-con-nosotros/areas-to-apply-2/