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Erkko Autio UK~IRC Researcher |
Erkko completed his Doctor of Science from Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Industrial Management. His Doctoral Thesis considered Symplective and Generative Impacts of Technology-Based New Firms in Innovation Networks. Since 2006, Erkko has held the QinetiQ-EPSRC Chair at Imperial College Business School, and previously held Professorships at HEC Lausanne and CERN.
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Elif Bascavusoglu- Moreau UK~IRC Research Fellow |
Elif was a Research Associate in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group, working on an ESRC Project on open innovation and servitization strategies of UK firms with Professor Bruce Tether. The aim of the project was to assess the extent to which UK firms engage in servitization and/or open innovation strategies, and to evaluate the attributes and changes that follow. She completed her PhD in international economics at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her PhD dissertation, titled Essays on Technology Transfer: Measurement, Spillovers, and Determinants, was about the evaluation of knowledge spillovers to emerging countries. |
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Bart Clarysse UK~IRC Researcher |
Bart Clarysse holds the Chair in Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London Business School. Bart joined Imperial in 2007 from Nottingham University business school and Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School where he taught innovation and technology management, entrepreneurial marketing and entrepreneurship. He is a founder of several high tech start-ups in businesses such as digital cinema, mobile internet and venture incubation. Following his PhD studies, Bart was an advisor in technology policy at the European Commission and he still consults on innovation and technology matters for governments and agencies. He is a founding partner and non-executive director of Inceptum, a software investment company and he sits on the board of Mobixx, a mobile internet start-up. He also is an advisor in innovation policy to the Flemish Government, the Belgian Government and European Commission. He has over 50 publications in the field of high tech start-ups and managing growth of these companies and has been an executive teacher for several multinationals such as KLM, Belgacom, Recticel, USG People, Johnson&Johnson in corporate venturing and innovative turnaround strategies. His on-going research interests include the analysis of acquisition decisions by established companies to enter new technological domain or adjacent markets. He analysis the growth strategies of technology ventures in adjacent markets and the valuation patterns of these ventures. |
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David Connell UK~IRC Researcher |
David Connell has been a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge since 2006. He was previously founding Chief Executive of TTP Ventures, a Cambridge-based venture capital fund specializing in early stage science and technology-based ventures with funding from Boeing, Siemens and financial institutions. From 1989 to 1997, Connell was Head of TTP Groups Strategy Division, providing consulting advice on technology exploitation, innovation and business development strategy to a wide range of clients including Shell, BP, Nortel, ICI, Barclays Bank and Cambridge University. Today, he combines directorships with TTP Capital Partners and various technology-based companies with his academic research position. Latest published report - "R&D CONTRACTS FOR CUSTOMERS THE KEY TO SUCCESSFUL HI-TECH START-UPS" |
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Andy Cosh UK~IRC Executive Committee |
Andy Cosh is Programme Director for Enterprise and Innovation, a Reader in Management Economics, Accounting and Finance and Assistant Director of the ESRC Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. Prior to his current posts Dr Cosh worked at HM Treasury and as a Research Officer at the Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge University. Until 2006 he was Senior Bursar at Queens' College, Cambridge. He has also acted as a business consultant to several firms and as a research consultant for the European Commission, Eurostat, British Bankers Association, DTI, DfEE and DfES. |
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David Gann UK~IRC Researcher |
David Gann is head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group and Deputy Principal Research & Business Engagement at Imperial College Business School. He holds the Chair in Technology and Innovation Management, joining Imperial College Business School and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. This post enables new research and teaching opportunities to be developed and exploited, linking issues in social sciences and business management with those in engineering, science, technology and medicine. David is responsible for a large portfolio of research in collaboration with firms in design, manufacturing, engineering, construction, ICT services and healthcare industries. He is co-Director of the EPSRC Innovation Studies Centre at Imperial College and of the EPSRC/AIM collaborative programme with Cambridge, Cranfield, Loughborough and Liverpool Universities: the Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge. His personal research includes work recently published in "Think, Play, Do: Technology, Innovation, and Organization", co-authored with Mark Dodgson and Ammon Salter, on the intensification of innovation, focusing on ‘Innovation Technology’ (IvT), the new electronic toolkit supporting design, research, development and engineering. His work focuses on how IvT can reduce costs and uncertainty in innovation processes, it includes studying the use of simulation and modelling in innovation, and management of innovation in project-based firms. David is Group Innovation Executive at Laing O'Rourke plc., and was until recently advisor to Willmott Dixon and CSC, developing strategies and capabilities for innovation. He has also advised several government and industry organisations focusing on research, development and innovation. David was awarded a CBE in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours. |
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Gerry George UK~IRC Researcher |
Gerry George is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and serves as the Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Centre at Imperial. The Centre facilitates Imperial College's strategic commitments in India for joint research initiatives, technology commercialisation, and educational programmes in innovation and entrepreneurship. He serves on the boards of high technology companies and is actively engaged in guiding startups and large companies on technology venturing and entrepreneurship. Professor George is AIM Innovation Fellow of the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) fellowship supports his research on entrepreneurship and technology commercialisation in the UK and elsewhere. His book (with Adam Bock) titled Inventing Entrepreneurs: Technology Innovators and their Entrepreneurial Journey (Prentice Hall, 2008) addresses the human side of innovation and technology transfer. In October 2007, he completed a special report for the European Venture Capital Association titled Scaling Current Boundaries on the early stage venture capital and fundraising environment in Europe. He serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Before joining Imperial College London, Professor George held tenured positions at the London Business School, where he served as Faculty Director of the Institute of Technology and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directed the Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship Program.An award-winning researcher and teacher, Professor George has published several articles in leading scholarly journals on the topics of resource constraints in entrepreneurial firms, value creation, and innovation in large and small organisations. His current research focuses on 'innovation in infrastructure' in the areas of healthcare, energy, and urban development. Some of his ongoing research compares innovation and entrepreneurship in Indian infrastructure to best practices globally. |
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Jonathan Haskel UK~IRC Researcher |
Jonathan Haskel is a Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School based in the Healthcare Management and Innovation and Enterprise Group. He is also School Research Director and a Member of the Reporting Panel of the UK Competition Commission. Jonathan is head of CERIBA, (the Centre for Research into Business Activity). He is also currently co-ordinating a European Commission FP7 project funded under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities theme named COINVEST ( Competiveness, Innovation and Intangible Investments in Europe), Coinvest-Project@imperial.ac.uk. His research interests are productivity, innovation, intangible investment and growth. Recent papers. |
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Alan Hughes UK~IRC Director |
Alan Hughes is Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies at the Judge Business School, Director of the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge where he is also a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, and Director of the UK Innovation Research Centre, a joint venture between Cambridge and Imperial College London.
He has worked extensively on the role of universities in innovation and on the nature of knowledge exchange patterns between universities and the science base. His work in this area with colleagues at the Centre for Business Research, Cambridge, and at the Industrial Performance Center MIT has been published in the report Cosh, Hughes and Lester (2006) UK PLC: Just How Innovative Are We? (www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/news/160206_Report_only.htm). With PACEC he has recently completed an evaluation of Third Stream Funding for HEFCE. He is currently completing with colleagues at CBR a 3-year ESRC funded project analysing university-industry links at national and regional levels University-Industry Knowledge Exchange: Demand Pull, Supply Push and the Public Space Role of Higher Education Institutions in the UK Regions (www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/research/programme1/project1-17.htm). In 2004 he was appointed by the Prime Minister of the UK to membership of the Council for Science and Technology which is the UK’s senior policy advisory body in this area. |
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Michael Kitson UK~IRC Knowledge Hub Director |
Michael Kitson is: University Senior Lecturer in global macroeconomics at the Judge Business School, Cambridge; Hub Director of the UK- Innovation Research Centre; Assistant Director of the Centre for Business Research, Cambridge; and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge; His research interests include: macroeconomic policy and performance; international trade; regional economics; corporate performance; innovation and the commercialisation of science. His publications include The Political Economy of Competitiveness (with Jonathan Michie) and articles in the Economic Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Economic History Review, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy, Bulletin of Economic Research, Regional Studies and Urban Studies. He has undertaken research for: the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC); the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS); the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). His current work in concerned with assessing the factors that drive regional competitiveness and innovation. Further information is at: www.michaelkitson.org |
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Cher Li UK~IRC Research Fellow |
Dr. Cher Li holds degrees from Leicester (MSc Financial Economics with Distinction) and Glasgow (PhD Economics). Cher is currently Associate Professor in Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School. Between September 2009 and Decmeber 2012 she was a research fellow at the UK~IRC, based at Imperial College Business School in London. Prior to joining the Centre, she held research positions with the Univ. of Glasgow and Univ. of Strathclyde. Her research areas include investigating the innovation activities in services (esp. knowledge-intensive business services); and studies the innovation performance at the firm/sector level. Cher has research interests in a range of areas in applied microeconomics and business, e.g. industrial organisation, business performance, the microeconomic impacts of innovation and trade, etc. She has also undertaken research on a number of projects funded by research councils and/or government departments (e.g. ESRC, DIUS, DTI, UKTI), empirically evaluating the impact of higher education institutions on regional economies; quantifying the contribution of exporting to the UK productivity growth; investigating the links between exporting, innovation and productivity at micro level; assessing the effectiveness of government programmes and industrial policies. More information on her publications can be found at www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/lizcl2.html |
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Andrea Mina Senior Research Fellow |
Andrea Mina is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. Beside his role as Co-investigator in the UK Innovation Research Centre, he is also Research Associate of the Business Economics and Management Division of the Judge Business School (Cambridge). His research focuses on the problem of technical, organisational and institutional change with special emphasis on the emergence of new technologies, dynamics of innovation systems and networks, industry growth and evolution and the financing of innovation. Andrea's research has been funded, among others, by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and the European Commission. Andrea actively contributes to the teaching of Business Economics and of Science and Technology Policy at the University of Cambridge and of Principles of Innovation Economics at the University of Turin (Real Collegio Carlo Alberto). More information can be found at www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/people/Mina.htm |
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Tim Minshall UK~IRC Researcher |
Tim Minshall is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Centre for Technology Management and coordinator of the Technology Enterprise Group. His research and teaching interests are focused on open innovation, funding of innovation and university-industry technology transfer. He is also a non-executive director of St John’s Innovation Centre Ltd, Cambridge.
Prior to joining the University in 2002 he was a fulltime member of the management team of St John’s Innovation Centre Ltd. He has managed a series of projects funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation to support the start-up and growth of new technology ventures, and to provide analysis of different systems for supporting technological innovation (through the publication of the ‘Funding Technology’ reports on, to date, the U.S.A., Israel, Germany and the UK – www.fundingtechnology.org). Tim was also a member of the start-up fundraising team, and then Programme Director for Research and Business Creation at the University of Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre.
He has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Aston University, and a PhD from Cambridge University Engineering Department. Before moving to Cambridge in 1993, he worked as a plant engineer, teacher, consultant and freelance writer in the UK, Japan and Australia.
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Ammon Salter UK~IRC Research Director |
Professor Ammon Salter received his first degree in Political Science from the Concordia University in Canada. Before beginning his doctoral studies at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, he worked for the Government of Ontario. After finishing his doctorate in 1999 he worked at SPRU on a number of projects for HM Treasury, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Ove Arup Foundation as well as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), including the Complex Products and Systems Centre (CoPS). He joined Imperial College Business School in January 2003, where he is Professor in Technology and Innovation Management and co-Director of the Innovation Studies Centre. He is also a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), as well as Research Director of the UK~IRC. He has published over 20 refereed journal articles and three books, including The Management of Technological Innovation and Think, Play, Do: Technology, Innovation, and Organization, both co-authored with Mark Dodgson and David Gann.
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Bruce Tether UK~IRC Executive Committee |
Professor Bruce Tether is Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at Manchester Business School, the Research Director of Design London - a joint venture between Imperial College and the Royal College of Art (RCA), and a Fellow of the UK's Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM). He is also a member of the executive management board of the UK Innovation Research Centre (UK~IRC), and has served as a high-level expert to, amongst others, the European Commission (DG Enterprise), the UK Government's Department of Business Innovation and Skills, and The Royal Society. Bruce's research interests concern the management and economics of design and innovation. He has published a book on Design Inspired Innovation - over 20 refereed journal articles (mainly in leading journals such as Research Policy and Industrial and Corporate Change), 10 book chapters, and a number of substantial reports for the European Commission, UK Government and other bodies. His current research concerns three themes: multidisciplinary collaborations involving design, engineering and business processes; design and innovation in, and of, services; and the evolution of architecture, design and engineering consultancies and their professions. |
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Antoine Vernet UK~IRC Research Fellow |
Dr Antoine Vernet received a PhD in Sociology from Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense in 2010. He joined the UK~IRC as a research fellow in 2010 where he currently works on our innovation and online communities project in collaboration with Professor Ammon Salter and Professor Martin Kilduff. This project focuses on how collaboration networks (such as affiliation or communication networks) enable innovation. Prior to joining the UK~IRC, Antoine's work focused on collaboration networks and careers of technicians in the motion-picture industry. He showed how, in the absence of durable employment, people had to build professional networks that would provide them with information and opportunities. Those networks are essential to enhance one's ability to survive and progress in a very fluid labor market. |
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Joanne Jin Zhang UK~IRC Researcher |
Joanne was formerly a UK~IRC Research Fellow at Centre for Business Research and now works at the University of East Anglia (London Campus). Her current research interest falls into two areas. One area focuses on understanding a firm’s strategy of searching for and managing outside information and knowledge to accelerate innovation and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. The other focuses on the dynamic process of building successful high growth firms.
She is currently working on a 3 year research project “New Modes of Innovation: Managerial and Strategic Business Practices and Open Innovation” (UK~IRC supported), exploring the nature and impact of “open innovation” strategy in the UK. And she has previously worked on a number of large scale research projects, including “Financial and Organisational Innovation in the UK High-Technology firms (EPSRC supported), “The Evolution of Business Knowledge” (ESRC supported), “Business models in the global fashion industry” (LDA supported).
Joanne has earned her PhD in Strategic Management from Cass Business School, City University of London (DTI/SIMFONEC scholarship), as well as a MBA (major in finance) from Cass. She teaches Corporate Strategy and Entrepreneurship at both undergraduate and post-graduate level. Prior to joining academia, Joanne co-founded a start-up specialising in international trading in China.
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