Role
Prof. Dr. Amon Simba. Amon is an Associate Professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Nottingham Business School (NBS) in the UK, and his expertise lies in entrepreneurship and innovation with a focus on Africa. Amon is the Director of the AfrIE Research Hub at NBS. He supervises PhD students whose studies focus on entrepreneurship & innovation. In addition to his roles at NBS, he is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Amon is also an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB) and the Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (JSBE). He is also a Research Grants Board Member of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and an Editorial Board Member at CABS. He has published his work in leading journal outlets comprising the Small Business Economics, Journal of International Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, International Marketing Review and International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour Research.
Research areas
Prof. Dr. Amon Simba is interested in research that can be classed in the following categories:
- Entrepreneurship & poverty
- Entrepreneurship & wellbeing
- African entrepreneurship & innovation
- Informal financing
- Networking & social capital
- Social entrepreneurship
- International entrepreneurship
- Born global firms
- Microentrepreneurship
- Indigenous entrepreneurship
- Inclusive entrepreneurship
- Informal entrepreneurship
- Informal economy
- Immigrant entrepreneurship
- Women entrepreneurship
- Family Business
- Innovation
- Frugal innovation
Sponsors and collaborators
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council
Small-Scale holder farmer's entrepreneurial ecosystems in Tanzania (SFEET) $72 000