FACULTY POSITION
emlyon business school invites applications for a research-focused position in Innovation at the Associate / Full Professor level. Applications are invited from highly motivated candidates who demonstrate research excellence in Innovation and Innovation Management. The appointment begins in September 2025.
The selected candidate will be attached to and collaborate with our existing team of professors and researchers in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and in the InvEnt Research Centre (https://sites-wordpress.em-lyon.com/invent/) to grow and extend our research and teaching in Innovation and Innovation Management. We embrace different research approaches and methods with a keen focus on quality in research. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation department is home to 28 scholars with diverse backgrounds and interests in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The department aims at high-quality research, as reflected in its publication record in A-level journals (e.g., ETP, JBV, SEJ, JMS, JoM, SMJ, Research Policy). Tight connections with different kinds of organizations provide opportunities for research and engaged scholarship.
Teaching opportunities will be mostly at the undergraduate level (BBA), graduate level (Programme Grande Ecole) and the master's level. Responsibilities for this position include capabilities to design and manage courses in the areas of Innovation and Innovation Management. Teaching will be delivered mainly at our new campus in Gerland in Lyon but can also be delivered on the school's other campuses.
JOB REQUIREMENT
We are looking for candidates with the following characteristics:
- Ph.D. / doctorate degree in Innovation, Entrepreneurship or related area.
- Desire to collaborate in a collegial and dynamic research and teaching team.
- Evidence of research excellence in the field of Innovation and Innovation Management with demonstrated ability to regularly publish in the highest ranked journals of the field (e.g., FT list)
- An interest in developing collective research projects and raising funds for research
- Desire and ability to support junior level researchers and/or supervise doctoral students
- Proven capacity to take on courses' pedagogical responsibilities, including the ability to manage a portfolio of external lecturers.
- Energy, dynamism, and demonstrated personal/professional ethical values
The candidate will be expected to contribute to and will be regularly evaluated based on three areas of activities: (1) research performance, (2) teaching and student supervision, and (3) institutional service (e.g., administration, service in committees, representation of the school in the media and events).
We strongly encourage people of all backgrounds (gender, ethnic background, nationality) to apply.
Fluency and teaching experience in English is required. French skills are not required.
The selected candidate is expected to be based in Lyon or nearby area. emlyon has set-up a relocation policy to support the moving process.
Salary and conditions are competitive and will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
THE APPLICATION SHOULD CONSIST OF
- A cover letter including the motivation to join emlyon business school
- An up-to-date curriculum vitae
- A research statements
- A teaching statement (with teaching evaluations, where available)
- A list of papers under review or in progress
- Two references/names with contact information
All application materials should be submitted in English, here: https://galileo.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/fr-FR/emlyonfac_career_site/job/Lyon/A-full-time-position-in-Innovation-at-the-Associate---Full-professor-Level_R-21424
Possible questions about the position can be addressed to Professor Pia Arenius, Head of Department at emlyon business school: arenius@em-lyon.com
All application materials should be submitted in English via this website page. The application materials will not be returned.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 5 January 2025
emlyon reserves the right to consider applications submitted after the deadline.
ABOUT THE SCHOOL
Founded in 1872 by the Lyon Chamber of Commerce, emlyon business school has an enrollment of over 9,260 students of 130 nationalities across four campuses worldwide (Lyon, Shanghai, Paris, and Mumbai). The School relies on a Faculty of 170 internationally recognized professors and researchers, and a network of 222 global academic partners, to provide learning tracks of academic excellence open to the world. The school runs a community of 45,000 alumni spread over 130 countries.
As a benefit corporation (société à mission) emlyon aims to "train and support informed leaders, throughout their lives, who are able to transform organizations efficiently for a fairer society and with greater solidarity and respect for the planet".
The School's pedagogy closely links action and reflection. Skill hybridization and social responsibility are also at the heart of its training programs, where the best of both socioeconomic and academic worlds meet. The strategic plan, "Resonances 2028", reaffirms the importance of the "maker spirit" that has been the DNA of emlyon since its creation. The plan is built around the five qualities expected of "makers", emlyon students and alumni, to become entrepreneurs of change, namely: academic excellence; entrepreneurial spirit; engagement; hybrid knowledge; resonance with society.
emlyon business school is ranked among the top 100 best universities and business schools in the world in the latest Shanghai ranking. In the Management category, the school reaches the top 2 of the best French business schools in the Management category, and the top 3 in the Business Administration category.
THE ENVIRONMENT
emlyon business school is at the center of a vibrant ecosystem of large universities with excellent research teams in engineering, computer science, natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities (see: https://www.lyoncampus.com/en/welcome/lyon-a-city-of-innovation)
Lyon is the second largest city in France, with a long entrepreneurship tradition and a solid digital industry.
Further information
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Almantas PALUBINSKAS, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
emlyon business school
palubinskas@em-lyon.com
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