Towards understanding opportunity-based entrepreneurship among refugees
The research project aims to investigate inclusive and proactive ways of supporting refugee entrepreneurship as means of societal integration,
as well as increasing our understanding of how refugees make use of information and knowledge to embrace entrepreneurial opportunities.
Objectives of the research
The following goals will be addressed.
- To explore the ways for institutions to support opportunity-based entrepreneurship among refugees before
and after arriving in the host country (Finland)
- To identify the hidden information barriers in the host country that refugee entrepreneurs face when starting a business. The overall objective is to study what kind of information sources about entrepreneurship are available for refugees in areas with a prominence
of Swedish speaking Finns and how accessible are they for the refugees?
- To understand the cognitive schemas needed for refugees to develop entrepreneurial agency and integrate themselves
in the host country entrepreneurial environment
This project is a multidisciplinary endeavor bringing together
researchers and experts from
business and economics, information studies, entrepreneurship, and marketing.
The project is divided into
two teams conducting focused research
on one or more objectives of the project.