Prof. Rotem Shneor

Rotem Shneor is an associate professor at the University of Agder (UiA) School of Business and Law in Norway, and serves as  the academic director7 of the university’s Center of Entrepreneurship. He holds a PhD in International Management from UiA and a Master’s of International Business from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

In recent years, he has been leading the Nordic Crowdfunding Alliance of platforms since 2014,  as well as serving as an associate researcher at the Cambridge University Center for Alternative Finance. He is a popular speaker and media commentator on issues related to crowdfunding in the Nordic countries, and has been holding talks and seminars in more than a dozen countries.

Thus far, he has been teaching a variety of courses in Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Consumer Behavior at bachelor, master and PhD levels. And has supervised dozens of successful master theses and a number of PhD dissertations in these areas.

His research includes issues related to international marketing, internet marketing, cognitive aspects of entrepreneurship, and crowdfunding behavior and motivations.

He has  contributed a number of chapters to research-focused edited books, as well as published in journals such as Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Cross Cultural Management, Journal of Product & Brand Management, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Journal of e-Business, Global Business and Organizational Excellence, and the Baltic Journal of Management.