Research profile

Kristian Nielsen is Associate Professor at Aalborg University Business School. He is also currently Head of Studies (Full-time education) and Vice-Head of Aalborg University Business School (Education).

His research seeks to advance the field of entrepreneurship by integrating ideas, concepts, and theories from traditional microeconomics, labour economics, and behavioural economics into entrepreneurship and exploring this through quantitative studies. He has published in leading journals such as Academy of Management Discoveries, Regional Studies, Industrial and Corporate Change, Small Business Economics, and Journal of Technology Transfer.

Kristian teaches microeconomics, including entrepreneurship and economic evaluation, at the full-time study programmes at Aalborg University Business School as well as in the executive MBA and HD programmes. He has co-authored book chapters on applied economic evaluations – including productivity analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and cost-benefit analysis – which are used in different education programmes at Aalborg University.

He was awarded Teacher of the Year by the students within Economics and Business Administration in 2017 and 2021 and received Aalborg University Business School Teaching Distinction in the Autumn of 2020. In 2009, Kristian received the Tuborg Foundation’s Economics and Business Administration Award, which was used on a visiting scholarship at Darden School of Business (University of Virginia).

Kristian has participated in evaluations of entrepreneurship policy initiatives for external stakeholders, including the local municipality and region, and he is an active part of the Danish Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (DCER) and a member of the Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID).