Prof. Dr. Nicola Ursina Blum

Profile

Prof. Dr. Nicola Ursina Blum Dozentin

  • Contact hours Tuesday
    Wednesday
    Thursday
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    Business School
    Institut Sustainable Business
    Brückenstrasse 73
    3005 Bern

Activities

  • Lecturer in Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, and the Circular Economy
    Development and leadership of multiple undergraduate and graduate-level courses at the intersection of social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and circular economy. Teaching focuses on equipping students with conceptual frameworks, applied methods, and critical perspectives to design, evaluate, and scale solutions for complex societal and environmental challenges.

  • Project Lead in Applied Research and Innovation Projects
    Project lead for diverse applied research initiatives, with a particular focus on Innosuisse-funded projects and collaborative innovation formats. Current activities include leading contributions to the Future Urban Society Innovation Booster and the Innosuisse Flagship Project SWIRCULAR, which advances digital approaches for circular construction.

  • Circular Economy

  • Social Entrepreneurship Coaching

  • Social and Technological Innovations

Teaching

  • Social innovation

  • Social entrepreneurship

  • Circular economy

  • Sustainability transformation in business and society

Research

  • Social innovation: How to mainstream them to support the sustainability transformation in business, society and politics?

  • Circular economy: How to enable the transformation? With a special focus on finances.

Projects

Memberships