Britta Gossel has been a research assistant at the Department of Media and Communication Management at the Technical University of Ilmenau since 2010. After graduating as a media scientist (Technical University of Ilmenau), she worked for several years as a personal assistant and press spokesperson in the European Parliament (Brussels, Strasbourg, Berlin) and did her doctorate at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg. She is a former scholarship holder of the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft as well as the Hans Weisser Foundation. Britta Gossel also teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt and Tallinn University. She has completed numerous stays abroad and research stays, among others in Jönköping, Leeds, Tallinn, Cork, Leicester and Sydney. Her research interests are in the fields of media entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship-as-communication and future technologies.