Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group has a specific focus on the important areas of entrepreneurship, innovation and small business. The terms 'innovation,' 'enterprise' and 'entrepreneurship' are broadly defined within the respective research, learning and practitioner communities, enabling colleagues from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to be legitimately included.
Specialisms include:
- research relating to technological innovation
- open innovation
- virtual enterprise support
- innovative e-hrm
- policy support and engagement
- pedagogy and knowledge transfer (e.g. entrepreneurial skill development)
- women entrepreneurship
- social enterprise
- growth and performance
- global entrepreneurship
- intrapreneurship.
The Group also incorporates appropriate functional inputs (e.g. marketing the social enterprise; human relations management in the SME; managing health and safety in the smaller business; SME supply chains etc.). The Group has a strong applied focus and seeks to create an environment where researchers build mutually beneficial and long-term relationships with business, the community and academia.
Academic staff
Professor Clare Brindley, Professor David Smith, Dr Roy Stratton, Dr Michael Zhang, Angelo Bisignano, Piers Thompson, Dr Francis Neshamba, Lynn Oxborrow, Guja Armannsdottir, Dr Kostas Galanakis, Hazel Williams, Professor Carole Tansley, Martin Eley, Wu Zhogmin, Shirley Walker, Dr Sergej Ljubownikow, Antonios Angelakis.
Enquiries should be directed to Professor Clare Brindley
