Congratulations on your appointment!\nHow does it feel? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n – That’s great of course.\nIt’s exciting that transnational research is being recognized.\nIn my research, I look at digital technologies and how they change entrepreneurship.\nSo it’s somewhere in between entrepreneurship and informatics.\nI’m glad that the entrepreneurship world sees my research as relevant and important. <\/p>\n\n You study entrepreneurs working together through digital technology instead of in a traditional entrepreneurial company, for example through DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organisation) with no CEO, board, managers or employees.\nHow does it work? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n – It is about solving big complex problems.\nThe entrepreneurs in such a digital organization all have a common goal and are ready to initially work for free “for a good cause”.\nThey contribute different skills – someone offers to program something, another works on a communication strategy for the project. <\/p>\n\n – There is a large collective-centric project called web3, which is about decentralizing the internet.\nThe goal of the project’s entrepreneurs is to shift the power of the internet from a few tech giants to users.\nThey want to make it fairer and reduce the opportunities for big tech companies to exploit and manipulate us users.\nThere are also DAOs working on climate-related challenges. <\/p>\n\n – In such an organization, no one is in charge.\nOften, someone comes up with an idea and creates a digital community where people can communicate through different platforms.\nAnd then you start working on the task and “self-organizing”. <\/p>\n\n What kind of entrepreneurs are jumping on these collective projects?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n – Many are ideologically driven.\nThey want a big complex problem to be solved, or at least confronted.\nOthers are just curious and want to be there to learn something.\nAnd then there are those who are there out of pure economic speculation.\nThey don’t care so much about complex problems or whether it’s interesting, but whether it might be valuable down the line.\nEveryone has the same goal, but they deliver based on different motivations. <\/p>\n\n Why is your research important?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n – To understand how contractors collaborate in a context where they are working on a complex challenge and where it can be difficult to agree.\nBut also to understand how to automate parts to make it cheaper and more efficient.\nAnd it is interesting to understand how DAOs democratize entrepreneurship by bringing people together. <\/p>\n\n What are your plans for the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n – I will continue to study DAOs and blockchain.\nBut I’m also involved in a project on smart cities, how to create autonomous transportation systems.\nOpen AI is another area I am researching.\nIt’s interesting because it’s used by many and is influenced by how it’s used, by whom and for what purpose. <\/p>\n\n Contact claire@clairebogusz.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n More about the award<\/strong> Read two other ESBRI articles with Claire Ingram Bogusz: She researches digital entrepreneurs who work for a good cause. Claire Ingram Bogusz, Associate Professor at Uppsala University, has been awarded the Young Researcher Prize for her research on collective digital entrepreneurship. Congratulations on your appointment! How does it feel? – That’s great of course. It’s exciting that transnational research is being recognized. 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