Blaž Zupan
PhD

Business portrait of Blaž Zupan in the green atrium of the School of Economics and Business on a sunny day in June 2024

Office hour

Tuesday at 11:30

room P-337

Department

CV

Experienced Entrepreneur, Consultant and University Professor. Skilled in Business Planning, Analytical Skills, Entrepreneurship Education, Innovation Management, and all Entrepreneurship connected topics in general. Besides having a proven history of founding and leading high growth entrepreneurial projects I am also a strong entrepreneurship professional/scholar with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused on Entrepreneurship education and Design Thinking.

Selected projects

  • LIKAR, Borut, CANKAR, Franc, ZUPAN, Blaž
    Educational model for promoting creativity and innovation in primary schools
    Systems research and behavioral science

  • VADNJAL, Jaka, ZUPAN, Blaž.
    The role of woman in family business. EBR, Sep./Oct. 2005, vol. 11, no. 2.
    EBR, Sep./Oct. 2005, vol. 11, no. 2

  • CANKAR, Franc, DEUTSCH, Tomi, ZUPAN, Blaž, SETNIKAR-CANKAR, Stanka.
    Schools and promotion of innovation
    Croatian journal of education

  • ZUPAN, Blaž, PUSTOVRH, Aleš, SETNIKAR-CANKAR, Stanka
    Does Decentralized Governance Lead to Less Scientific Output? A Fuzzy Set Analysis of Fiscal Decentralization and Determinants of National Innovation Capacity
    Lex localis - Journal of Local Self Government

  • VADNJAL, Jaka, ZUPAN, Blaž.
    The role of women in family businesses : the case of Slovenia
    Entrepreneurship in the Balkans : diversity, support and prospects

  • ZUPAN, Blaž, SVETINA NABERGOJ, Anja, STRITAR, Rok, DRNOVŠEK, Mateja
    Action-based learning for millennials : using design thinking to improve entrepreneurship education
    Innovative business school teaching : engaging the millennial generation


  • Family Business (Succession Issues) Creativity, Problem Solving and Design Thinking in (Entrepreneurship) Education Entrepreneurship Education Youth Entrepreneurship Business Ethics


  • Co-author of: “Creating the Infrastructure for Technology Development in an Aspiring Region: the Case of Gorenjska”: 2nd Central European Conference in Regional Science (Novy Smokovec)


  • Co-author of: “A preliminary evaluation of effectiveness of entrepreneurship infrastructure”: EFMD 37th Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Small Business (EISB) Conference


  • GLAS, Miroslav, ZUPAN, Blaž. Youth Entrepreneurship In Slovenia. Youth Entrepreneurship and Local Development in Eastern Europe (ed.Paul Blokker and Bruno Dallago), Ashgate, 2008, 256 p.


  • Co-author of: “Employing Children and grooming successors in Slovenian Family Firms”. 4th workshop on Family Firms Management Research


  • Co-author of: “Women's Role in Family Businesses”: 3rd Workshop on Family Firms Management Research


  • Co-author of: “Strategy of Teaching Entrepreneurship at All Levels of Formal Education in Slovenia, 2007-2013: Concepts and Conditions for Success”: 17th global IntEnt conference 2007


  • Co-author of: “»D.School« - A Creative Approach to Teaching Interdisciplinary Course on Entrepreneurship at Higher Education Institutions”: 17th global IntEnt 2007


  • Co-author of: ”Revitalization of Slovenian clothing industry with 3D modeling and made-to-measure clothing“: 38. Simpozij o novostih v tekstilstvu, 2007

  • VADNJAL, Jaka, ZUPAN, Blaž
    Family business as a career opportunity for women
    South East European journal of economics and business


  • Co-author of: “Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition: The Case of Skype Technologies”. 4th European Summer University Conference in Entrepreneurship.

  • DEBARILEV, Stojan, JANESKA-ILIEV, Aleksandra, STRIPEIKIS, Osvaldas, ZUPAN, Blaž
    What can education bring to entrepreneurship? : formal versus non-formal education.
    Jou[code345]nal of small business management