Prof. Dr. Anne Tryba

Academic Career and Research Areas

Anne Tryba’s research examines the interplay of entrepreneurial education and individual and team cognition, emotions, competencies, motivations, and entrepreneurial pathways. She focuses in particular on the drivers of sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation, academic entrepreneurship, and venture scaling, and explores the role of hope and pedagogies of hope in management and entrepreneurship education.

Anne Tryba studied business administration at TU Freiberg and gained industry experience as a strategy consultant at Capgemini Invent, as a Senior Manager in Corporate Marketing and Strategy at Telefónica Germany, and as a co-founder of a start-up. She earned her PhD in Entrepreneurship from the University of Luxembourg in 2018 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at TUM. From 2019 to 2023, she served as Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Munich Business School. In 2023, she was appointed Professor of Entrepreneurial Education at TUM.

Awards

• Best Empirical Paper Award Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management, 2025
• 3E Catalyst Award – Best Paper in Responsible Entrepreneurship Education, ECSB – European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2025
• Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management, 2017, 2025
• Best Reviewer Award Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management, 2017
• Fonds Nationale de la Recherche Luxembourg: AFR PhD Research Grant (2014-2018)