Director - ERC

Stephen Roper is Professor of Enterprise at Warwick Business School, Director of the Enterprise Research Centre – ERC (www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk), and Co-Director of the Innovation and Research Caucus (https://ircaucus.ac.uk). He is an economist with degrees from the University of Durham, Oxford University, and LSE. Stephen joined Warwick in 2008. Prior to that, he was Professor of Business Innovation at Aston Business School, and before that, Assistant Director of the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre, Belfast.

Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Queen’s University Belfast

Nola Hewitt-Dundas is Professor of Innovation Management and Policy and Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast. She has published consistently in leading international journals on innovation systems, the micro-economics of business innovation and university-business collaboration. An internationally recognised expert, she has provided advice to national and international organisations and serves on the Board of UKRI.

Assistant Professor