Mentor Areas
Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Emerging Economies; Economic Development
Description:
Professors Raffi Amit and Valentina Assenova of the Management Department are conducting a large-scale empirical research project on the relationship between accelerators and the performance of early-stage start-ups.
RAs’ tasks include searching and reviewing the existing literature, coding a broad range of relevant data sources and compiling relevant data into a newly created database. Data verification and aggregation tasks will also be assigned.
Preferred Qualifications
Junior or Senior Undergraduate at PENN
Must have an interest in academic research
Experience with Excel and/or Stata preferred
Analytically oriented, responsible, articulate, adaptable, self-starter and self-directed student. PC literacy is essential.
Details:
Preferred Student Year
Junior, Senior
Academic Term
Fall
I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).Volunteer
No
Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.Paid
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.Work Study
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.