Mats Lundqvist

Mats Lundqvist is Full Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology, with a focus on entrepreneurship didactics. 
Since 2022, Lundqvist also serves as Vice President of Utilisation, Innovation and Lifelong Learning at Chalmers.

Mats research examines how universities and academic researchers become entrepreneurial, including venture creation by academic scientists, the roles and identities of nascent entrepreneurs, and surrogate entrepreneurship in incubated technology ventures.

A second strand of his work addresses entrepreneurship education, particularly action-based learning within venture creation programmes, entrepreneurial competencies, and the integration of entrepreneurship into engineering curricula. He also studies societal and sustainable entrepreneurship, including the role of entrepreneurial practice in energy system transitions. His methods combine qualitative case studies, design-theoretic approaches, and collaborative programme evaluations.

Lundqvist earned his Master of Science in Engineering Physics at Chalmers in 1991, followed by a Licentiate of Engineering in Technology Management in 1994 and a PhD in Technology Management at Chalmers in 1996, with a dissertation on organising product development. He was appointed docent in 2013.

He has spent his career at Chalmers, working as an assistant professor from 1996 to 1998 and as a senior lecturer in innovation management from 1998 to 2013. He was appointed Professor in Entrepreneurship in 2013 and Full Professor in Entrepreneurship in 2021. He co-founded Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship and directed it for over two decades, and has long led the international master's programme in Entrepreneurship and Business Design at the school of entrepreneurship.