Welcome to Study Talks – Beyond Textbooks and Borders, a podcast brought to you by 30 students from Copenhagen Business School in collaboration with peers from Makerere University Business School in Kampala, Uganda.

As part of their international field study, these students stepped outside the classroom and into the real world, interviewing local entrepreneurs, exploring markets, and uncovering how innovation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship take shape in a different cultural and economic context. In each episode, they share powerful reflections, inspiring stories, and lessons learned – not from textbooks, but from lived experiences.

In this fourth and last episode, the students talk about social entrepreneurship as well as the cultural differences experienced during the trip and general reflections on what they have learned.

The podcast was produced during the master’s-level elective course “Field Study: Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development in Uganda”, coordinated by Thilde Langevang, Rebecca Namatovu, and Søren Jeppesen, from the Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS), Copenhagen Business School.

Welcome to Study Talks – Beyond Textbooks and Borders, a podcast brought to you by 30 students from Copenhagen Business School in collaboration with peers from Makerere University Business School in Kampala, Uganda.

As part of their international field study, these students stepped outside the classroom and into the real world, interviewing local entrepreneurs, exploring markets, and uncovering how innovation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship take shape in a different cultural and economic context. In each episode, they share powerful reflections, inspiring stories, and lessons learned – not from textbooks, but from lived experiences.

In this third episode, the students talk about how to adapt, connect, and collaborate in an unfamiliar environment and culture.

The podcast was produced during the master’s-level elective course “Field Study: Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development in Uganda”, coordinated by Thilde Langevang, Rebecca Namatovu, and Søren Jeppesen, from the Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS), Copenhagen Business School.

Welcome to Study Talks – Beyond Textbooks and Borders, a podcast brought to you by 30 students from Copenhagen Business School in collaboration with peers from Makerere University Business School in Kampala, Uganda.

As part of their international field study, these students stepped outside the classroom and into the real world, interviewing local entrepreneurs, exploring markets, and uncovering how innovation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship take shape in a different cultural and economic context. In each episode, they share powerful reflections, inspiring stories, and lessons learned – not from textbooks, but from lived experiences.

In this episode, the students dive into what we often dismiss as “trash.” They explore how a new generation of artists in Uganda is transforming plastic, scrap metal, and discarded fabrics into striking works of art. Through their art, they’re redefining waste and sparking new conversations about sustainability and the role of creativity in entrepreneurship.

The podcast was produced during the master’s-level elective course “Field Study: Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development in Uganda”, coordinated by Thilde Langevang, Rebecca Namatovu, and Søren Jeppesen, from the Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS), Copenhagen Business School.

Welcome to Study Talks – Beyond Textbooks and Borders, a podcast brought to you by 30 students from Copenhagen Business School in collaboration with peers from Makerere University Business School in Kampala, Uganda.

As part of their international field study, these students stepped outside the classroom and into the real world, interviewing local entrepreneurs, exploring markets, and uncovering how innovation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship take shape in a different cultural and economic context. In each episode, they share powerful reflections, inspiring stories, and lessons learned – not from textbooks, but from lived experiences.

In this first episode, the students discuss the following question: When is the right time to start? In the field, the students met young female entrepreneurs who are running businesses with the help of microfinances to tackle this question.

The podcast was produced during the master’s-level elective course “Field Study: Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development in Uganda”, coordinated by Thilde Langevang, Rebecca Namatovu, and Søren Jeppesen, from the Centre for Business and Development Studies (CBDS), Copenhagen Business School. 

Why has East Asia emerged as the global leader in green energy industries but - until recently - lagged on carbon emission reduction? What is new and distinctive about East Asia's approach to the green energy transition? In this episode, Lindsay Whitfield and Cornel Ban of Copenhagen Business School discuss these questions with Elizabeth Thurbon, co-author of Developmental Environmentalism. East Asia's greening strategies are not mere exercises in 'greenwashing' or fossil-fuelled 'business as usual'. Rather, there is something fundamentally transformative underway in the region at the level of elite ideation, strategic ambition, and policy action. State actors in East Asia are engaging in a sophisticated kind of economic statecraft, strategically harnessing the capitalist market dynamics of 'creative-destruction' to advance their transformative green ambitions through green growth. The episode participants discuss the lessons that can be learned in Europe from East Asia and the future of the global green shift in an era of geostrategic rivalry.

In this episode, Professor Lindsay Whitfield of Copenhagen Business School is in conversation with Cornel Ban, who is an Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School, and Keun Lee who is a Distinguished Professor of Economics, at Seoul National University and was the Otto Mønsted Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School. They discuss the industrial policy for economic catch-up in the de-globalization era.

In this episode, Prof. Lindsay Whitfield of Copenhagen Business School is in conversation with Prof. Gale Raj Reichert and Dr. Tobias Wuttke of Bard College Berlin. They discuss the shift in EU industrial policy towards the semiconductor industry.

In this episode, Dr Robin Steedman of Copenhagen Business School is in conversation with Dr Dorothy Amenuke of KNUST, Ghana. They discuss Amenuke’s career as an artist and educator as well as the dynamism of the contemporary Ghanaian art market and factors that have led to its major growth in recent years.

Professor Lindsay Whitfield from CBDS discusses the tenth anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative, the contentious politics it engenders, and the role of massive Chinese infrastructural investments globally with Dr. Federico Jensen, external lecturer at Copenhagen Business School. In the episode, they discuss the origins of the Belt and Road Initiative, it’s economic and political successes and failures, and the role of local governments in investment receiving countries. Dr. Jensen and Professor Whitfield examine what lies ahead for the Belt and Road Initiative in the future, including changes in the Chinese government’s strategy within the Belt and Road Initiative which may reflect broader shifts in the political economy of China.

As the world embraces industrial policies once relegated to the dustbin of history by mainstream economists and policymakers, we need a more rigorous understanding of how they work across various national policy spheres. In this episode, Prof. Keun Lee from Seoul National University discusses his Schumpeterian approach to economic development with Prof. Lindsay Whitfield, Dr. Cornel Ban and Dr. Tobias Wuttke.