Amy (Siqiao) Luan
Research Fellow
Amy joined the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) at Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB) in January 2023. She earned her PhD at University of Otago, New Zealand. She is currently working on an UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded Smart Nano NI project. Prior joining QUB and ERC, Amy was a research assistant at the Lincoln University New Zealand working on the application of biometrics in food marketing. Amy’s research interests cut across the fields of innovation, knowledge management, and international business. Specifically, she has explored the knowledge transfer processes of multinational enterprises, technology application, and dynamic of innovation ecosystems.
Anastasia Ri
Assistant Professor -Research
Anastasia Ri is an Assistant Professor (Research) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Warwick Business School (WBS), which she joined in December 2025. Prior to this, she was a Research Fellow at the Enterprise Research Centre and The Productivity Institute at Aston Business School, and, before that, a Principal Researcher at the University of Nice–Sophia Antipolis on a European Investment Bank–funded project.
She is an applied economist with extensive experience and a strong interest in policy-oriented research related to SMEs, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Her research focuses particularly on SMEs’ digital adoption and sustainability practices.
Eugenie Golubova
Research Fellow
Eugenie Golubova is a Researcher at the ERC with about 15 years of work experience in the fields of research and evaluation and has worked on over 15 research projects for the UK Government, Scottish Government and corporate clients such as NatWest, focusing on business support evaluations and business decision-making research. Eugenie is currently undertaking her PhD in Business & Management at the University of Warwick.
Joanne Turner
Research Fellow - innovation Studies
Joanne joined the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) at the University of Warwick in October 2013. Initially, as a PhD student within the Centre, Joanne examined how a firm’s industry environment – in particular, the appropriability regime – affects its intangibles strategy and innovation performance. In May 2018, Joanne became an ERC Research Fellow working on projects examining the productivity and growth returns to publicly-funded and privately-funded R&D, the links between intellectual property protection and innovation/innovation success, and the role of local, regional and broader eco-system factors in supporting innovation, exporting, growth and productivity.
Rita Nana-Cheraa
Research Fellow
Rita Nana-Cheraa holds a Ph.D. in Business and Management at the Warwick Business School researching on innovations among SME's. Rita gained her BSc in Mathematics at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and her MSc in Economics and Econometrics at the University of Nottingham. Nana also has experience in retail banking, business development, and interbank money market dealing.
Serdal Ozusaglam
Research Fellow
Dr Serdal Ozusaglam is a postdoctoral research fellow with PhD degree in Economics and Innovation Management from the University of Strasbourg. Prior to joining WBS, Serdal was a teaching fellow of Economics of Innovation and postdoctoral research fellow at the Leeds University Business School between 2014 and 2020.
