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Daniela Maresch is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, where she joined the Department for Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management in June 2017, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Innovation Management at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria). Prior to this, she was Deputy Head of the Institute of Innovation Management at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria).

Daniela holds a PhD in Business Administration and an LL.M.(WU) in Business Law from WU Vienna University of Business and Economics (Austria) as well as a postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) from Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria). Before joining academia in 2014, she gained practical experience in financial reporting working for a major Austrian utility and in corporate law working for a renowned Viennese law firm. In her research, she employs her interdisciplinary expertise. The focus of her research is on topics at the intersection of entrepreneurship, regional development and innovation, such as entrepreneurial finance, technology entrepreneurship, social and migrant entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship education. The results of her work have been published both in scholarly journals such as Technology Forecasting and Social Change, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, and Technovation, and in transfer publications such as the European Central Bank Working Paper Series.

During the last four years, she has been visiting research fellow at Aalto University (Finland), Cranfield University (UK), University of Lund (Sweden), and University of Twente (Netherlands).