Abel Lucena
Assistant Professor of Business and Management
Adão Carvalho
Assistant Professor
Akunna Oledinma
Assistant Professor Logistics and Supply Chain Management ·
Alec Morton
Independant Researcher
Alexander Brem
Chair of Technology Management
Aloña Martiarena
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
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.
Andrew Henley
Economist
Andrew James
Senior Research Fellow / Senior Lecturer
Andrew Johnston
Principal Lecturer in International Business and Economics
Andrew Thomas
Director of Research
Andy Lockett
Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Angela Martinez Dy
Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
Anja Grinde Myrann
Research Fellow at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, Norway
Anna Rebmann
Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship
Anne Green
Professor of Regional Economic Development
Areti Gkypali
Assistant Professor
Ashwin Kumar
Professor of Social Policy
Bart Clarysse
Chair in Entrepreneurship
Bo (Grace ) Peng
Research Fellow
Bochra Idris
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Özyeğin University
Carl-Magnus Bjuggren
Research fellow
Carmen Guzmán
Assistant Professor of the department of Applied Economics
Carol Ekinsmyth
Associate Head
Carol Stanfield
Senior Research Fellow
Carol is an independent consultant with 25 years’ experience in skills and labour market research. As a Senior Research Fellow at the ERC she supports the delivery of core and commissioned projects. These projects have explored issues such as productivity drivers in firms, the innovation ecosystems for physics, chemistry and Biotech businesses and SME attitudes to Intellectual Property.
Carole Howorth
Chair of Sustainable and Ethical Entrepreneurship University of York, Management School
Catherine Robinson
Associate Dean
Chad Saunders
Author
Chris van Egeraat
Senior Lecturer
Chris Warhurst
Professor & Director of the Institute for Employment Research
Christopher Haley
Senior Fellow, Global Entrepreneurship Network
Claudio Fassio
Senior Lecturer
Colin Mason
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Cord-Christian Drews
PhD Student
Dan Johansson
Professor of Economics
Danny Miller
Research Professor
Darja Reuschke
Lecturer
David Ampudia
Data Scientist
David Dowell
Senior Lecturer
Dean Patton
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Deborah Allcock
Senior Lecturer in Strategy & Department Lead for Enterprise
Dilani Jayawarna
Reader
Dimitris K. Chronopoulos
Senior Lecturer
Effie Kesidou
Professor of Economics of Innovation & Sustainability
Effie Kesidou has a Chair in Economics of Innovation and Sustainability at Leeds University Business School, is the Head of the Graduate School in the Business Faculty, University of Leeds and a CORD Fellow at the Center for Organization Research & Design, Arizona State University. Her research is interdisciplinary and uses applied economic methods to understand how businesses and cities can become more sustainable via innovation.
Eleanor Shaw
Head of Department, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde
Eleni Kesidou
PhD Student
Elizabeth Daniel
Professor of Information Management
Emma Folmer
Assistant Professor
Enrico Vanino
Lecturer in Economics
Erika Kispeter
Research Fellow
Erkko Autio
Chair in Technology Venturing and 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.
Francisco J. Santos
Associate Professor of applied economics
Gabriella Cacciotti
PhD Student
Geoff Gregson
Author
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.
George Saridakis
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Head of Department – Marketing, Entrepreneurship & International Business
Gerard Hodgkinson
Professor of Strategic Management and Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School
Guus Hendriks
Assistant Professor of International Business
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.
Helmut Fryges
Senior Research Fellow - Australian Innovation Research Centre ( AIRC)
Henry Overman
Director, What Works Centre
Hossein Mahdavi
Research Author
Ian Drummond
Research Consultant
After working as an academic geographer for a number of years, Ian joined the civil service in 1999. After spending two years at the Department for Education, he joined the Small Business Service in 2001. Following the closure of the SBS in 2004, he moved to the DTI and worked in its successor departments until 2019. Throughout this time Ian’s role primarily involved developing the evidence base used to inform entrepreneurship and small business policy development.
Ian Vickers
Senior Research Fellow
Ines Alvarez-Boulton
PhD Candidate
Isabelle Le Breton-Miller
Associate Professor of Management
Jack Willis
Post-Graduate Researcher
Jae-Yeon Kim
Research Fellow
James H Love
Professor of International Business.
Jim Love Is Professor of International Business at Leeds University Business School. He previously held Chairs in international business and economics at Aston, Birmingham and Warwick Universities, and earlier worked in the economics department at Strathclyde University. His background is in applied microeconomics, principally in the fields of international business and innovation. Most of his work is empirical, using firm-level datasets. Jim is a senior researcher in the Enterprise Research Centre, an independent research organisation which conducts policy-relevant research on SME growth and development. His work here is innovation, exporting and growth in SMEs
James Hayton
Associate Dean Doctoral Programme
Jane Atterton
Senior Lecturer in the Rural Policy Centre at SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College).
Jane Bourke
Lecturer in Economics
Dr. Jane Bourke is a Senior Lecturer in Economics, University College Cork.
Jane’s research interests are in the area of firm-level innovation, technology adoption and micro-businesses. She is also interested in the adoption of innovations and digital technologies in health care.
Jen Nelles
Professor
Jeremy Phillipson
Professor of Rural Development, Director of Research in the School of Agriculture,
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.
Johan Bruneel
Lecturer.
Johan de Borst
PhD Student, Hunter Centre for Enterprise, Strathclyde Business School
John Anderson
Head of SME Engagement
John Kitching
Professor
John Wilson
Professor of Banking & Finance
Jonathan Levie
Professor, NUI Galway
Jose Liñares-Zegarra
Senior Lecturer
Juan Mañez
Associate Professor
Julia Korosteleva
Professor of Economics and Business:
Julia Rouse
Principal Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, MMU Business School
Jun Du
Professor of Economics
Jun Du holds the position of Professor of Economics at Aston University and serves as the leader of work package 4 within the ERC project "Internationalisation and Productivity." Additionally, Jun is the head of the Centre for Business Prosperity (CBP). Her current research focus revolves around formulating global business strategies encompassing international trade, investment, and technological advancements.
Karen Bonner
Senior Economist
Karen is a senior economist at Ulster University’s Economic Policy Centre and also works with the ERC on projects relating to entrepreneurship, business demography and innovation. She is involved primarily in firm-level economic research utilising micro-data to examine aspects of firm performance in both Northern Ireland and the UK. Karen works with ERC members to produce the UK Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Other recent projects include those for BEIS, DfE, and Scottish Enterprise. Previously she worked as a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Queen’s University, Belfast.
Katherine Hathaway
Consultant
Kayvan Kousha
Senior researcher of social media analysis and quantitative science studies
Kelly Smith
Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
Kevin Mole
Associate Professor of Enterprise & Head of Group
Kevin's expertise ranges across a variety of qualitative and quantitative research techniques: on external advice to small firms, the diagnosis of firm problems, policy choices in business support, firm growth and the adoption of new working practices in SMEs.
Kevin Mulligan
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Kiran Trehan
University of Birmingham
Laura Heery
Economist at the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre
Lorna Treanor
Assistant Professor
Louise Scholes
Reader
Lucy Armstrong
Chief Executive ,The Alchemists
Lucy is chief executive of The Alchemists. This business works with high growth mid-corporate businesses to accelerate their growth and success by focussing on shareholder and management development and succession.
Marcel Lukas
Assistant Professor in Finance
Marek Kowalkiewicz
Chair of Digital Economy
Maria Villares Varela
Lecturer in Sociology
Maria Wishart
Research Fellow
Maria Wishart joined the Enterprise Research Centre in 2018 after completing her PhD in Ethics. She worked for seventeen years in SMEs before coming to academia. Since joining the ERC, she has contributed to a multi-country study into SME resilience and to a major longitudinal UK study into mental health in the workplace. Her work has addressed the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on small businesses, and she has led research projects focusing on rural enterprise and on workplace wellbeing. She is experienced at teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students and her research interests include SME resilience, workplace mental health and business ethics.
Marian Garcia
Professor of Marketing and Innovation
Marion Frenz
Head of Department and Reader in Management
Marta Zieba
Lecturer in Economics
Md Shahidizzaman,
Chair Digital Economy team , Author
Mika Maliranta
Research Director
Mike Crone
Senior Lecturer in International Business
Mike Power
Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR)|
Mike Spicer
Director of Research, BCC
Monder Ram OBE
Director, Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME)
Professor Monder Ram OBE is the Director of Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME), based in Aston Business School, Aston University. He has extensive experience of working in, researching and acting as a consultant to small and ethnic minority businesses. He is a leading authority on small business and ethnic minority entrepreneurship research and has published widely on the subject.
Muthu de Silva
Senior Lecturer
Nadia Asghar
Head of Department Finance, Accounting and Economics
Natalia Vershinina
Principal Lecturer
Neha Prashar
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
Neha gained her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with Economics at University College London and went onto do her Master’s degree in Development Economics at the University of Birmingham.
Neil Foster-McGregor
Researcher
Niamh Lenihan
Lecturer in Economics
Nick Wilson
Director of the Credit Management Research Centre (CMRC)
Nicos Nicolaou
Professor
Niels Bosma
Assistant Professor
Nigel Driffield
Professor of International Business
Nola Hewitt-Dundas
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.
Oksana Koryak
Lecturer
Oleksandr Shepotylo
Research Fellow
Oliver Mallett
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Osman Anwar
Director
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.
Pattanapong Tiwasing
Research Associate in Rural Enterprise.
Paul Lassalle
Senior Lecturer in International Business
Paul Sissons
Reader
Petra Nylund
Independant Researcher
Pietro Micheli
Associate Professor in Organizational Performance
Ray Lambert
Independent consultant
Rebeca I. Muñoz Torres
Senior Lecturer
Rhian Eveleigh
Economist
Richard Blundel
Professor of Enterprise and Organisation
Richard Hazenberg
Professor of Social Innovation
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.
Robert Bowen
International Entrepreneurship academic
Robert Kloosterman
Professor of Economic Geography and Planning,
Robert Newbery
Senior Lecturer in Enterprise and Innovation
Robert Wapshott
Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Robyn Owen
Associate Professor
Roger Turner
Independent consultant
Rosa Caiazza
Professor of Management
Ross Brown
Lecturer.
Rowena Barrett
Head, School of Management, Author
Sally Jones
Reader in Entrepreneurship and Gender Studies
Samia Mahmood
Senior Lecturer and Co-head of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Research Cluster
Samuel Mwaura
Research Fellow
Sandra Gottschalk
Senior Research Fellow
Sara Carter
Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Social Sciences
Sara Maioli
Reader in Economics, Newcastle University Business School.
Sarah Dodd
Professor
Saul Estrin
Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy (Emeritus)
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.
Shaker A. Zahra
Professor of Strategy & Organisation
Shivani Mehta
Doctoral Researcher
Simon Raby
Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Sreevas Sahasranamam
Professor, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow.
Stephen Brosnan
Lecturer, Dept. of Economics, Cork University Business School, UCC
Stuart Fraser
Associate Professor of Enterprise
Suman Lodh
Senior Lecturer in Finance
Sumon Bhaumik
Professor
Susan Marlow
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Sylvia Gottschalk
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Co-Director, GreenFin Research Centre ,Middlesex University
Tapas Mishra
Professor of Financial Economics, University of Southampton
Temitope Akinremi
Research Fellow- Productivity in UK Engineering
Temitope Akinremi joined the Enterprise Research Centre (ESRC) at Warwick Business School in February 2018. Prior to that, she earned a PhD in Engineering Management from Coventry University, where she also worked as a Teaching Assistant. She has a BSc and an MSc in Chemical Engineering. Her experience also spans across the oil and gas industry and chemical process industry where she worked as a process engineer, process improvement researcher and business development manager with different companies.
Thanh Huynh
Researcher
Theresia Harrer
Researcher
Tiago Botelho
Lecturer
Tom Cannon
Professor Emeritus
Tomasz Mickiewicz
Head of Economics & Strategy Group, Aston Business School
Ully Yunita Nafizah
PhD student
Ully Yunita Nafizah is currently studying her PhD at the Warwick Business School researching on innovation and digital technology adoption. Ully gained her degree of BSc in Engineering Management at the Institut Teknologi Bandung and MSc in Innovation Management at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Ully also has experiences in academic teaching and consultancy in the area of industrial engineering and business development.
