Mette Søgaard Nielsen (born 1984) is a researcher within the field of entrepreneurship and social networks. In her dissertation, she shows that social support provided to entrepreneurs from their social network is much more than one individual helping another. Social support provision is multifaceted; it is not just a consequence of a specific need in an entrepreneur, it is also related to self-oriented motivations and expectations of those providing support. The dissertation incorporates social-psychological explanations into the field of entrepreneurs' social networks.
Mette obtained her MSc in Business, Language and Culture with a specific focus on International Relations from the University of Southern Denmark in 2009, and her Ph.d.-degree in 2014 from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark.
