Maija  Renko
            
        Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
        
        University of Illinois at Chicago
     
        
    
	
        
Biography
        
        Maija Renko is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She teaches entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship classes in the undergraduate business and MBA programs of UIC’s College of Business Administration. Her research and teaching interests are focused on the early stages of the entrepreneurial process (entrepreneurial motivation, opportunities and nascent entrepreneurship), social entrepreneurship, and technology entrepreneurship.