
معرفی
AOUNI Zineb is a permanent, full-time Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at ICN Business School (France) where she has spent over twenty years supporting and teaching entrepreneurship. She obtained her PhD in Entrepreneurship Education from HEC Liège (Belgium) in 2011 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the European Center for Research in Microfinance (CERMi), Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Education:
- 2011 – Doctorate in Entrepreneurship Education, HEC Liège, Belgium
- 2002 – DES in Management, HEC Liège, Belgium
- 1997 – Master’s Degree in Economics & Management, Mohamed V University, Morocco
Research interests revolve around entrepreneurship education, innovation processes, hybrid-venture identity, crowdfunding investor cognition, gender and family-business issues. Her work often bridges cognitive perspectives with practical entrepreneurial challenges, investigating how investors perceive and reward hybrid social ventures on crowdfunding platforms.
Across her 30+ publications (2003-2024) three dominant strands emerge: (i) crowdfunding & hybrid social-venture financing, (ii) entrepreneurship pedagogy and competency development, and (iii) regional development and gender in family enterprises. These outputs illustrate a sustained focus on contextual and cognitive factors shaping entrepreneurial finance and learning.
Academic leadership: She has served as programme director for master, EMBA and executive education tracks and actively launched several entrepreneurship initiatives, underlining her strategic role in curriculum design and outreach.
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