Prof. Dr. Stephanie Birkner talks about ‘Entrepreneurship as a space of opportunity’ in podcast

New episode of ‘Hirn gehört – Oldenburger Wissensschnack’ now available

What do entrepreneurship and science have in common? Why does Prof. Dr. Stephanie Birkner see herself as a ‘researcher of opportunity’? And what role do courage, creativity and humility play in breaking new ground? The professor of entrepreneurship education at Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences answers these and other questions in the latest episode of the science podcast ‘Hirn gehört – Oldenburger Wissensschnack’. In it, she talks about her academic career, her experiences in Namibia and her work in the innovative ‘Team Academy’ study model of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership degree programme. The episode is now available at https://hirnvomhahn.de/podcast and on all popular podcast platforms. 

Prof. Dr. Stephanie Birkner is head of the Start-up, Innovation, Leadership programme at Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, which has its own off-campus learning centre at TAB eG. At the interface between entrepreneurial activity, personal development and academic education, students create ideas and test them in practice. Several successful companies have already emerged from the learning projects of the student cooperative. Prospective students can apply for the coming winter semester until 30 September. Information about the programme is available at www.hs-bremerhaven.de/Gruendung-Innovation-Fuehrung. Information about TAB eG is available at www.tab-eg.de.

The podcast ‘Hirn gehört: Oldenburger Wissensschnack’ aims to share stories from everyday research life and make science understandable in an entertaining way. Every third Thursday of the month, hosts Dr Bianca Brüggen and Dr Jens-Steffen Scherer chat with scientists from the Oldenburg region about their path into science and their research. The podcast presents the people behind the research and shows how diverse the scientific landscape in Oldenburg and the surrounding area is. The fact that life paths are usually not straightforward and that there have been a few failures along the way is a recurring theme in the conversations. The recording was supervised by Svenja Grebener, research assistant at the Institute for Economic Education (IÖB Oldenburg).

The audio podcast is based on event formats such as ‘Hirn vom Hahn’ (Brain from the Tap), ‘Science Slam’ and ‘Science Pub’. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the idea arose to continue this knowledge transfer as an audio podcast so that more interested parties could learn about the work of scientists. ‘Hirn gehört’ is a joint project of the Oldenburg Network for Science Communication (OLWIK for short), which various Oldenburg scientific institutions have joined: Schlaues Haus Oldenburg gGmbH, Jade University of Applied Sciences, the University of Oldenburg with its Centre for Teacher Training – Didactic Centre (DiZ) and the Neurosensory Research Centre (FZN), the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology, European Science Communication Institute (ESCI), Oldenburg Energy Cluster – OLEC e.V. and the Institute for Economic Education (IÖB Oldenburg). The podcast is coordinated by Schlaue Haus Oldenburg and financially supported by Jade University of Applied Sciences.