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
Research Fellow
Having joined ERC in 2018 and more recently a member of the GEM UK national team, Anastasia’s current focus is entrepreneurship and small business economics investigating small firms’ financial constraints, performances and entrepreneurial attitudes and aspirations. She is passionate about giving policymakers the tools to understand the entrepreneurial experience including barriers to entrepreneurship, motivations of aspiring entrepreneurs as well as digital and innovative entrepreneurship.
Eugenie Golubova
Research Fellow
Eugenie joined the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) in August 2020. She has been working on business support evaluations and research projects for public and private sector clients, most recently studying how firms make export decisions for the UK Department for Business & Trade. Eugenie has over 13 years of work experience in research and evaluation.
George Paily
Research Fellow
George is currently a Research Fellow with the Enterprise Research Centre at Aston Business School. He has a background in Economics and is nearing the completion of his PhD from Maastricht University. His research interests include the economics of knowledge and innovation, capability accumulation, and firm performance, with a special focus on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). His doctoral thesis, titled “Microeconomics of capability accumulation: essays on product diversification, innovation and firm dynamics in India,” employs advanced causal inference methodologies and machine learning techniques to delve into the innovation-growth dynamics at the micro level.
Halima Jibril
Research Fellow
Halima Jibril is an Assistant Professor (Research) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Warwick Business School. She is Co-Investigator on the Innovation and Research Caucus (IRC), a UKRI funded research centre that aims to improve the use of robust evidence in research and innovation funding. Halima’s research is on the determinants of business innovation, resilience, and performance, focusing on firm level enablers as well as the role of business support policies and programmes.
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.
Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos
Research Fellow
Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos is a Research Fellow at the Enterprise Research Centre of the Warwick Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. He has been a visiting researcher at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, NEOMA Business School in France, and Dundee Business School in the United Kingdom. He has also worked for the U.S. multinational Marsh & McLennan Companies and Intrakat Constructions S.A. (part of the Intracom Holdings Group).
He has published papers in leading international refereed journals and was featured in the Forbes '30 Under 30' list 2024 in Greece, which recognises the achievements of successful individuals under the age of 30 who excel in various fields.
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.
