Rate My Professor Diamanto Politis

Diamanto Politis is a Professor of Business Administration specializing in Entrepreneurship at Lund University School of Economics and Management. She serves as the Director of the Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship. Politis earned her PhD from Lund University in 2005, with a dissertation entitled "Entrepreneurship, Career Experience and Learning - Developing Our Understanding of Entrepreneurship as an Experiential Learning Process." Her research specializations encompass entrepreneurial learning, entrepreneurship education, experiential learning in venture creation programs, technology-based entrepreneurship, academic entrepreneurship, university incubators, informal venture capital, business angels, entrepreneurial ecosystems, societal collaboration, entrepreneurial universities, and sustainable entrepreneurship. She has been appointed Professor (Full) at the Department of Business Administration since March 2019 and previously held a professorship at the Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship from February 2013 to November 2017.

Politis has garnered recognition through several honors, including the Academy of Management Learning & Education Journal award for exemplary performance as an editorial board outstanding reviewer in 2015, the Handelsbanken Wallander Scholarship in 2006, the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum/NUTEK young scholar award for outstanding entrepreneurship research in 2006, the Best Paper Award at the XIX RENT Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business conference in 2005, and co-recipient of the best paper award for "Informal Investors as Entrepreneurs – The Development of an Entrepreneurial Career" in 2000. Key publications include "The process of entrepreneurial learning: A conceptual framework" (Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2005), "Entrepreneurs' attitudes towards failure: An experiential learning approach" (International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 2009), "Does prior start-up experience matter for entrepreneurs' learning? A comparison between novice and habitual entrepreneurs" (Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 2008), "Business angels and value added: what do we know and where do we go?" (Venture Capital, 2008), and as editor of the "Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Learning" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025). She contributes to the field as a member of the editorial board of Entreprendre & Innover, former editorial review board member of Academy of Management Learning & Education, board member of the Centre for Innovation Research (CIRCLE), and Chair of the Award committee for the European Entrepreneurship Education Award.