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Felipe Symmes
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Social Responsibility and Sustainability Corporate Sustainability
Professor at the Department of Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation
BIOGRAPHY
"The only creative space that has been granted to us is the one that we do not know"

His work focuses on sustainable futures, entrepreneurship, informal markets, creativity, imagination, and innovation. He co-authored the book Scaling Strategies for Social Entrepreneurs: A Market Approach, published worldwide by Palgrave McMillan, and Do More with Less: The 6 Principles of Frugal Innovation by Editorial Planeta at Mexico. His research has been published in prestigious journals such as Entrepreneurship & Regional Development and Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management. He is part of the editorial review board of Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy. In addition, Felipe is a literature writer, publishing his first book in 2016 called Writings of a Lost Man, for which he was selected by Penguin Random House in Spain among the most promising young writers.

 

EDUCATION
    • Ph.D Organizational Studies and Theory of Culture
      University of St. Gallen
    • Master Études du développement
      Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne
    • Ingeniero Comercial
      Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with a one-year exchange in MBA and Social Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
AWARDS & HONORS
  • Impact Scholar Community Mentorship Mentee, 2023-2024 Cohort
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  1. Symmes, F. (2025) The visceral imagination: exploring the visceral aspect of the entrepreneurial imagination through Roberto Bolaño’s the savage detectives. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2025.2465714
  2. Prabhu, F.; Granados, C.; Symmes, F.; Radjou, N.(2024) Haz más con menos: Los 6 principios de innovación frugal, Editorial Planeta.
  3. Bravo, C.; Bustamante, C.; Egana, P.; Symmes, F.; Sexton, J. (2024) The formalization of microenterprises in middle-income countries: Informal institutions as a mechanism to address institutional incongruence. Management Research: Journal of Iberoamerican Academy of Management.
  4. Jäger, U.; Symmes, F.; Bucher, S.; Rüegger, S. (2024) When connecting ventures to international markets falls short: Examining the root mechanisms of perceived inefficacy in market-driven poverty alleviation efforts. Management Research: Journal of Iberoamerican Academy of Management.
  5. Jäger, U.; Symmes, F.; Cardoza, G. (2020) Scaling strategies for social entrepreneurs: A market approach, Palgrave MacMillan.