The Position
TUM School of Management at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, is inviting applications for an assistant professorship (tenure track, W2 to W3 on a German pay scale) in Entrepreneurial Management.
Our mission at TUM School of Management is to educate the next generation of leaders and innovators who shape the future where business meets technology. Located in Germany, in the heart of Europe, we attract outstanding students from around the globe. Together, we empower them to transform technological progress into meaningful solutions for business and society.
Munich is uniquely positioned as one of Europe's leading industrial and entrepreneurial hubs, and TUM is of one of the top technological universities in the world. Drawing on this rich environment, the successful candidate will find themselves ideally positioned to research, teach, and reach out to various stakeholders on topics around the discovery, development, growth, and scaling of entrepreneurial opportunities. They will join the TUM Entrepreneurship Research Institute (ERI), collaborate with broader deep tech initiatives at TUM and may work on these topics with industry as well as start-ups from TUM's impressive entrepreneurship ecosystem. We invite applicants to highlight how their research and teaching would be complementary to ongoing activities at TUM Entrepreneurship Research Institute and beyond.
For this position, we expect candidates to demonstrate their research abilities based on a credible promise to produce internationally leading work with a potential to be published in journals from the Financial Times 50 list and to have an active international research network. With respect to research focus, we welcome a variety of interests, including the creation and development of entrepreneurial companies, management of growth, and/or the renewal of established companies. This could include topics such as identifying tech-based opportunities, promoting ethical and responsible practices in young and growing firms, and strategizing, organizing, and leading growth and renewal. Moreover, we expect pedagogical aptitude, including the ability to teach in English, as well as significant international experience. No German language skills are required; Munich is a highly international city, and English is widely spoken both at TUM and in everyday life. Experience with the acquisition of competitive third-party funding is a plus and candidates should showcase their willingness to engage in third-party projects in the future.
The University
Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of Europe's top universities. It is committed to excellence in research and teaching, interdisciplinary education and the active promotion of promising young academics. The university also forges strong links with companies and active collaborations with top universities, at home and abroad. Over the last 10 years, more than 1,000 startups have emerged from TUM that have created around 25,000 jobs and have raised more than 8 billion euros. The spectrum of subjects is unique in Europe, ranging from natural sciences and engineering to medical, life, social, and business sciences. TUM's interdisciplinary research platforms play a substantial role in developing new technologies, designing new products, and creating new business models. Jointly with the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, TUM School of Management has just won a Cluster of Excellence funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), TransforM--Munich Center for Transformative Technologies and Societal Change, with the goal of better understanding why, when, and how technologies become socially transformative. As a university, TUM has consistently been ranked as a University of Excellence in the German interuniversity competition.
Based on international standards and transparent performance criteria, TUM offers a merit-based academic career option for tenure track faculty, to advance from an Assistant Professor position through a permanent position as an Associate Professor, and on to Full Professor. Professors gain a the status of civil servants in Germany ("Beamte"), which carries attractive tax-related and social benefits, with a generous pension scheme. The regulations of the TUM Faculty Recruiting and Career Advancement System apply and can be accessed here (https://www.tum.de/en/about-tum/working-at-tum/faculty-recruiting/tum-faculty-tenure-track/). As a public university, TUM's base salaries are determined by the State of Bavaria – overall compensation is negotiable and commensurate with experience. The TUM Munich Dual Career Office provides career consulting to the partners of newly appointed faculty as well as relocation and integration services.
The School, the Department, and the Institute
Grounded in TUM's technological and entrepreneurial ecosystem, the TUM School of Management (https://www.mgt.tum.de/) educates responsible talents and pursues relevant research to advance innovation-based businesses and societies in Germany, Europe, and the world. In the 24 years since its establishment, ongoing commitment to world-class research and teaching at the interface between management and technology resulted in a triple-crown accreditation (AMBA, AACSB, EQUIS), bringing the school into the elite group of approximately 150 business schools in the world. The School has a rounded teaching portfolio, spanning undergraduate, master's, EMBA, and doctoral programs. We attract students and researchers from all over the world and actively promote international collaboration and exchange. In both national and international rankings, the School of Management regularly ranks first in Germany for its research output.
The successful applicant will join the Innovation and Entrepreneurship department, which currently includes Oliver Alexy, Christoph Ann, Frank-Martin Belz, Miriam Bird, Nicola Breugst, Joachim Henkel, Mark-Oliver Mackenrodt, Hana Milanov, Holger Patzelt, Melanie Richards, and Anne Tryba as faculty. In their teaching and research, the members of the I&E department strive to improve our understanding of what new technologies mean for existing and novel organizations, and for society at large. Accordingly, I&E department members specialize on questions around entrepreneurial activities, innovation management and policy, intellectual property rights, organization design, and responsible innovation. The research developed by the I&E department is of the highest international standard, and regularly published in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal. Faculty members serve as editors of leading journals in the area of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Journal of Business Venturing.
The TUM Entrepreneurship Research Institute is located at TUM's technology campus in Garching, a suburb of Munich. The research at the institute spans the entire entrepreneurial process from idea conception to growth and scaling, organizational design, and entrepreneurial failure and re-entry. Moreover, it aims at a better understanding of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial support organizations. The institute is closely tied to all TUM-wide entrepreneurship activities, and also co-located with the TUM Incubator, the TUM Venture Labs, a network of Deep Tech and Life Science Incubators to nurture Innovation in Emerging Domains, and TUM's affiliated institute UnternehmerTUM, the leading center for innovation and business creation in Europe.
The Process
Application documents should be submitted in accordance with the guidelines covered by the TUM Faculty Recruiting and Career Advancement System: http://www.tum.de/faculty-recruiting. Full applications will be accepted via our submission portal from July 13 until September 4, 2026. As an equal opportunity employer, TUM explicitly encourages applications from women and all others who will bring additional diversity dimensions to the university. Preference will be given to disabled candidates with essentially the same qualifications.
The official job announcement can be found here: https://portal.mytum.de/jobs/professuren/NewsArticle_20260713_102250/newsarticle_view?
Please submit your application no later than September 4, 2026 on our submission portal: https://www.recruit.tum.de/
Please direct informal inquiries to Professor Nicola Breugst (nicola.breugst@tum.de). We are happy to arrange virtual informal conversations. Moreover, members of the TUM Entrepreneurship Research Institute will also conduct informal talks at the Academy of Management Conference in Philadelphia. Should you be interested in such a conversation, please send an email including a current CV to Professor Oliver Alexy (o.alexy@tum.de) before July 23, 2026.
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Nicola Breugst
Technical University of Munich
München
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