Marco Bade

About Me

Currently, I am an Associate Professor at ICN Business School, specializing in entrepreneurship and finance, and a permanent faculty member of the CEREFIGE research laboratory at the University of Lorraine.

Previously, I was one of the founding professors of the German University of Digital Science, where I served as Head of the Research Group on Digital Entrepreneurship and Finance and as Academic Director of MBA programs in Digital Transformation and Financial Technology.

My previous academic experience includes positions as a professor and researcher at several institutions, such as TU Berlin and the University of Potsdam. I hold a doctoral degree in economics and a Habilitation in business administration.

Research Interests

My research examines entrepreneurial behavior and outcomes as products of interaction between entrepreneurs and the ecosystems that surround them, both physical and digital. How entrepreneurs communicate, where they operate, and what support structures they encounter all feed back into the decisions they make and the outcomes they achieve. I investigate this interplay across several dimensions, including digital visibility, cross-platform discourse, the framing of entrepreneurial missions, and the design of support organizations (e.g., startup accelerators) and public policy. I treat each of these as a setting where entrepreneurial strategy meets external response, and where that response in turn feeds back into strategy. I complement my empirical work with formal modeling of the intermediaries entrepreneurs depend on, showing that dynamics of resource allocation and information production govern decisions on both sides of the entrepreneur-ecosystem relationship. Common to all my work is that it treats entrepreneurial behavior as inseparable from the ecosystems in which it takes place, and asks how the structures and dynamics of those ecosystems influence what entrepreneurs do and what results.

Seleced Papers

Ecosystem conditions and the efficacy of entrepreneurial support organizations: Moderating effects on venture entry. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2026, forthcoming.

Entrepreneurial narratives, digital community discussion, and crowdfunding success (with F. Reichenbach). Research Policy, 2026, 55 (2), 1–17.

Conversion and contagion in entrepreneurship: A cross-country analysis. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2022, 16 (1), 207–239.

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