Thomas Hellmann
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Saïd School of Business, Oxford University,
Dr. Thomas Hellmann is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Saïd School of Business at Oxford University. He holds a BA from the London School of Economics and a PhD from Stanford University. He previously was a member of faculty at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He also held visiting positions at Harvard Business School, the Wharton School (University of Philadelphia), Hoover Institution (Stanford), INSEAD (France) and the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia).
Professor Hellmann has taught executive, MBA and undergraduate courses, mostly in the areas of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance. Professor Hellmann’s research interests include entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurship, innovation, strategic management and public policy. He is also the founder of the NBER Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp, which teaches the frontiers of entrepreneurship economics and entrepreneurial finance to PhD students.
Featured work
From start-up to scale-up: examining public policies for the financing of high-growth ventures
What are the challenges of financing scale-ups, and how can long-term public policies support the creation of a better scale-up environment?
From start-up to scale-up: fueling growth firms in Europe
While there has been an increased policy focus on start-ups, few of these firms are able to survive and grow longer term. It is the high-growth busine