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Membership
The list of academic and research staff for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group is available in the People section.
Introduction
Within this group, those staff who research within the area of entrepreneurship address:
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Academic and new technology entrepreneurship (Gregson, Cooper): this has focused on aspects of new firm formation and commercialisation in universities and other high technology environments, particularly venture capital, the financing of knowledge-based businesses, networks, new product development and intellectual property. Core to the research have been 4 Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) totalling over £250,000.
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Entrepreneurship and economic development in developing countries (Rosa): this work, with collaborators in Uganda, Nigeria and Sri Lanka, has focused on how entrepreneurial processes operate within resource constrained and often illegal contexts in developing countries, and how entrepreneurship relates to economic development at a micro level.
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Entrepreneurship and Family Business (Rosa, Bika): that includes habitual entrepreneurship and portfolio business ownership in medium sized firms and family entrepreneurship in rural areas and the impact and positive effect of in-migration.
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Entrepreneurship education, self-efficacy and intent; work is being undertaken (Cooper) to explore entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intent and how both might be developed through various types of intervention, including education, where different pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning may deliver contrasting outcomes.
Work within the second theme of innovation adopts a multidisciplinary approach working across the boundaries with other disciplines such as organizational behaviour, marketing, sociology and operations management. Examples of this work include:
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The analysis of high performance supply chains, the politics of continuous improvement and the interplay between lean principles and brand characteristics. (Oliver)
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The global telecoms industry. (Fransman)
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Impact of ICT within universities has been addressed under the ESRC Virtual Society programme. (Pollock)
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New standards organisations as network organisations. (Graham)
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Grid-enabled data capture. (Lloyd)
The group hosts the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research and many of the group’s staff are also involved in the University-wide Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation, and Japanese European Technology Studies Institute. The very real contribution of this group’s knowledge to addressing practical problems is exemplified by its success in obtaining KTP grants. The recently completed KTP (Gregson) with Archangel (in association with the US Kauffman Foundation) is one of only three special DTI supported programmes (to stimulate private equity in the UK) and the only one awarded in Scotland.
- Visit the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research.
- Visit the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation.
- Visit the Japanese European Technology Studies Institute.
The group is a partner in new multi-million pound Scottish Programme for Entrepreneurship (SPE), an initiative funded by the Scottish Government. The SPE is a collaborative initiative which involves the Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Aberdeen.
Members of the group also advise the Scottish Executive – the Scottish Science Advisory Committee and the Royal Society of Edinburgh in improving industrial R&D performance in Scotland.