Aloña Martiarena
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Aloña Martiarena is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at IE University. Her research lies in the intersection of Entrepreneurship and Business Economics. She is particularly interested in understanding the origin of entrepreneurs, by this meaning their previous employment experience, as a means of understanding entries into entrepreneurship and subsequent performance of new businesses.
Andrew James
Senior Research Fellow / Senior Lecturer, Institute of Innovation and Research, Manchester Business School
Andrew James is a Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Policy and Management and a member of the Manchester Institute of Innovation and Research at MBS. His research and teaching interests focus on corporate technology strategy, innovation management and science and technology policy, as well as business strategy. He has engaged in research and consultancy with companies from a diverse range of sectors including chemicals, industrial electronics and pharmaceuticals but his particular focus is on the industrial and technological dynamics of the defence, security and aerospace sectors.
Aniela Kuhl
PhD Student, Hunter Centre for Enterprise, Strathclyde Business School
Aniela's research focusses on the "Rewards of Entrepreneurship: Constructing Economic Well-being within Entrepreneurial Households". She will explore the concept of direct and indirect financial rewards that can be accrued from running a family business.
Anja Grinde Myrann
Research Fellow at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, Norway
Anja's research interests include; business dynamics, bankruptcy, entrepreneurship and gender.
Anne-Marie Mohammed
Head Lecturer
Anne-Marie Mohammed is Head and Lecturer in the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
Areti Gkypali
Research Fellow, ERC
Dr Areti Gkypali joined ERC in March 2016 as a Research Fellow working with Professors Stephen Roper, James Love and Nola Hewitt-Dundas focusing on SMEs, innovation, productivity, exports and business eco-systems. Prior to joining the ERC, Areti worked at the Department of Economics, University of Patras for two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow where she also obtained her PhD in Economics
Bo (Grace ) Peng
Research Fellow
Bo’s main research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurial finance. Her current research focuses on exploring how the entrepreneurial identity influence entrepreneurial external research acquisition via IPO as well as their exit strategies after IPO.
Cord-Christian Drews
PhD Student, Aston Business School
Cord-Christian is currently finishing his ESRC Case Award funded PhD at Aston Business School, with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as the Case Award’s project partner. His thesis considers the value of longitudinal analysis of business support programmes, and the surrounding methodological challenges.
Dr Bettina Becker
Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Aston Business School
Bettina’s main research interests are in R&D and innovation, foreign direct investment, SMEs and growth, and firm performance. She has been Co-applicant and CI of research projects funded by the Anglo-German Foundation, the ESRC, and the German Research Foundation (DFG). Bettina has published in international journals including Regional Studies, Small Business Economics, and International Journal of Finance and Economics.
She has guest-edited a special issue of Economic Modelling and has experience as grant application reviewer for the ESRC.
Dr Carl-Magnus Bjuggren
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Carl-Magnus is employed as a Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in Sweden. His research interests include applied microeconomics, firm dynamics, family firms and labour economics.
Dr Darja Reuschke
Lecturer, University of St Andrews
Dr Darja Rueschke is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews. Her research explores the links between small businesses and entrepreneurship with housing and neighbourhoods and the complex interactions between work life and home life.
Dr Deborah Allcock
Senior Lecturer in Strategy & Department Lead for Enterprise
Deborah is senior lecturer and departmental lead for enterprise at the University of Huddersfield’s Business School. Her primary research focuses on the development of executive pay and corporate governance at the point of the initial public offering. She also engages with strategic planning and practitioner aspects of strategic management.
Dr Drew Gertner
Research Fellow, Birmingham University
Drew works with Professors Kiran Trehan and Monder Ram at the University of Birmingham on Mapping and Activating Support for Diverse Business Networks through the Enterprise & Diversity Alliance (EDA). The purpose of this work is to utilise the Enterprise Diversity Alliance (EDA) to engage directly with diverse businesses in order to promote better relationships with the finance sector and support availability to these firms.
Dr Erik Monsen
Director of Research, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde
Erik's career has crossed disciplinary (engineering, management, economics) and geographic (US, Germany, UK) boundaries on his journey from designing better aircraft to designing better entrepreneurial organisations.
Dr Helen Xia
Lecturer, Loughborough University
Helen's current research includes open innovation and small firms, comparisons of SME innovation strategies and government policies; and emerging science and technology based industries.
Dr Jane Bourke
Lecturer in Economics
Dr. Jane Bourke is a lecturer in Economics at University College Cork. Jane holds BComm and MEconSc degrees from University College Cork and a PhD from Warwick Business School. Jane’s research interests are in the area of innovation and technological change, as well as adoption and diffusion of innovations.
Dr Julia Korosteleva
Senior Lecturer, University College London
Julia's research interests lie in the field of entrepreneurship, regional development and entrepreneurship, start-up finance, financial development, and transition economics.
Dr Julia Rouse
Principal Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, MMU Business School
Julia's research investigates entrepreneurship as a route of social mobility. She is the founder and Co-Chair of the Gender and Enterprise Network (GEN), an international community of more than 400 stakeholders interested in advancing and employing scholarship on women’s enterprise and the gendering of entrepreneurship.
Dr Karen Bonner
Senior Research Fellow
Karen is a Senior Research Fellow at Aston Business School and also works with the ERC part time to provide support to the Demography and Innovation research themes. She is involved primarily in firm-level research utilising data to examine aspects of firm performance in both Northern Ireland and the UK. Recent projects include those for Invest NI, Forfás, BIS, DETI, Scottish Enterprise and UKTI. Previously she worked as a Senior Research Economist at the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland (formerly the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre).
Dr 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.
Dr Kun Fu
Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Kun's recent work investigates the impact of the knowledge base of industrial clusters on innovation performance of start-up firms and national institutions, such as IPR regime and competition policy on the emergence of technology entrepreneurship.
Dr Louise Scholes
Reader, Loughborough University London
Dr Louise Scholes is a Reader at Loughborough University London. Her main research interests include the relationship between governance and ownership of family firms and firm strategy (particularly related to innovation and entrepreneurship) as well as management buyouts and their consequences.
Dr Lucrezia Casulli
Lecturer, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strathclyde University
Lucrezia's research interests include international entrepreneurship, coupled with her passion for cognitive psychology, lead her to research the reasoning processes that individuals engage in when confronted with internationalisation opportunities and challenges.
Dr Marina Biniari
Lecturer, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strathclyde University
Marina's research focuses on the origins and sustainability of entrepreneurial behaviour within existing companies, across different levels of analysis.
Dr Michael Anyadike-Danes
Senior Lecturer, Aston Business School
Michael has pioneered the use of the ONS Business Structures Database to study firm-level performance in the UK in a collaboration between the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland and Aston University.
Dr Niels Bosma
Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Utrecht University
Niels's research interests evolve around individuals' entrepreneurial and innovative behaviour in regional and social contexts, with a particular interest in social entrepreneurship.
Dr Oksana Koryak
Research Fellow, Warwick Business School
Oksana’s main research interests are in the areas of decision making and cognition in the field of entrepreneurship. Her recent research investigated decision making by private equity and venture capital firms as well as the conceptualization of resilience in the context of entrepreneurship.
Dr Priit Vahter
Senior Research Fellow. Warwick Business School
Priit's research covers various determinants of innovation and firm performance and effects of international trade and FDI.
Dr Robyn Owen
Associate Professor
Dr Robyn Owen is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR) Middlesex University Business School. Her research focuses on the financing of young potential high growth SMEs.
Dr Ross Brown
Lecturer.
Dr Ross Brown is a Lecturer in the School of Management, University of St Andrews. He is also a member of the Centre for Responsible Banking and Finance at the University of St Andrews. His main research interests lie in the areas of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial ecosystems, funding issues for small businesses, innovation policy and regional development.
Dr Sally Gee
Research Fellow, The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), Manchester Institute of Innovation Research
Sally is a Research Fellow at The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) and the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR). Sally's PhD on 'open innovation' in the bio-pharmaceutical sector focused on the dynamics of user-producer interactions for the creation and exchange of knowledge. She holds an MSc in Technology Management from Manchester School of Management (Distinction) and a BSc International Management and North American Business Studies from UMIST, UK and McMaster University, Canada (First Class Honours).
Dr Samuel Mwaura
Research Fellow, Strathclyde University
Samuel works with Professor Sara Carter at the Hunter Centre at the University of Strathclyde. His research interests include Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Firm Performance.
Dr Sandra Gottschalk
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Industrial Economics and International Management (ZEW)
Sandra's research focuses on topics concerning the founding and closing of enterprises. In particular, she analyses the influence of the founder's human capital relating to performance, development, and probability of closing of start-up enterprises.
Dr Stuart Fraser
Associate Professor of Enterprise, Warwick Business School
Stuart's research interests include small business finance; applied financial economics; econometric analysis of small business issues.
Dr Teresa Schlüter
Economic Analyst
Dr Teresa Schlüter is an economic analyst at the German advisory council on global change where she works on sustainable urban development. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics in Economic Geography. Her interests lie in the areas of urban and labour economics, inequality, innovation policy and micro-econometrics.
Dr Yama Temouri
Lecturer, International Business, Aston Business School.
Yama's research interests are in applied international trade and investment issues, in particular related to foreign direct investment and its effects on firm performance and labour markets.
Eleni Kesidou
PhD Student, Hunter Centre for Enterprise, Strathclyde Business School
Eleni's research focuses on entrepreneurial leadership and the connections between entrepreneurial leadership and organizational performance.
Enrico Vanino
ERC Research Fellow
Enrico’s research is mainly focused on the micro-level analysis of firm performance, in particular regarding international and R&D activities. Enrico is concluding his PhD in Economics at the University of Birmingham. He has been a visiting researcher at the Hong Kong University and has collaborated on several consultancy projects and for the European Commission DG Trade.
Gabriella Cacciotti
PhD Student, Warwick Business School
Gabriella is interested in the impact of the fear of failure on the entrepreneurial process.
Joanne Turner
PhD Student, University of Warwick
Joanne’s research will examine how a firm’s industry environment, in particular the appropriability regime, affects its intangibles strategy and innovation performance.
Johan de Borst
PhD Student, Hunter Centre for Enterprise, Strathclyde Business School
Johan’s PhD research will explore how entrepreneurial households construct economic well-being and the potential impact of entrepreneurial households in their support or curtailment of business growth ambitions.
Laura Heery
Economist at the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre
Laura Heery is an Economist at the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre. Her research interests include economic policy research, competitiveness, labour market analysis, and sub-regional development.
Marco Felici
Researcher
Marco Felici
Marco currently works at the Social Market Foundation, where he undertakes quantitative research on issues relating to skills policy and business growth.
Natalia Vershinina
Principal Lecturer at the Department of Strategic Management and Marketing, Leicester Business School, De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, UK
Dr. Natalia Vershinina is a Principal Lecturer at the Department of Strategic Management and Marketing, Leicester Business School, De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, UK and has been with the institution for fourteen years. She has a PhD in Business Relationships and prior to that completed MBA with Distinction from DMU, and Deng with Distinction from St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Design. She has co-authored the market-leading Management textbook with Richard Daft and Martyn Kendrick.
Her main teaching and research area is entrepreneurship and small firms with particular interest in ethnic minority entrepreneurship, effect of gender on women's enterprise in UK and transition economies context. She is a Entrepreneurship SIG Track Co-Chair for British Academy of Management Conference, and Co-Chair for Family and Community Enterprise Track at Institute for Small Business and Enterprise Conference.
Neil Lee
Assistant Professor
Neil Lee is an Assistant Professor in Economic Geography at the LSE where he also serves as Director of the MSc in Local Economic Development and BSc in Geography with Economics.
Nida Broughton
Chief Economist
Nida is Chief Economist at the Social Market Foundation, where she leads the SMF’s research on business policy, entrepreneurship, economic growth and employment. Nida previously worked at the House of Commons, where she advised MPs and committees on a broad range of economic issues, and in particular, on financial services. Nida also has in-depth expertise in regulation and competition policy, gained whilst working at Ofcom, the UK regulator and competition authority for communications markets.
Nola Hewitt-Dundas
Professor, Queen's University Belfast
Nola is Professor of Innovation Management and Policy at Queen’s and an ESRC-Innovate UK Innovation Caucus Thought Leader. Her research interests include the dynamics of innovation ecosystems, business innovation, technology transfer and networks with an emphasis on small and medium enterprises, business strategy and technology adoption. She has led and contributed to a wide range of public sector projects for national and international organisations.
Osman Anwar
Senior Consultant
Osman Anwar, is a Senior Consultant with SQW. He has undertaken many finance policy evaluations and research studies in the UK and internationally. He works in collaboration with Oxford Innovation who assist potential high growth SMEs.
Professor Jun Du
Professor of Economics
Professor Jun Du is Professor of economics at Aston Business School, her research revolves around the evaluation and determinants of firm performance. She has extensive experience in collaborating with researchers nationally and internationally on projects on the measurement of firm productivity, the relationship between performance and R&D and innovation, finance and investment, ownership, political economy, and internationalisation.
Professor Andy Lockett
Warwick Business School
Andy is Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship and Pro-Dean at Warwick Business School. At the Centre he is jointly responsible for the research theme investigating Entrepreneurship Leadership and Capabilities and their impact on SME Growth.
Professor Colin Mason
Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
Colin's research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurship and regional development. His specific research interest is in entrepreneurial finance and he has written extensively on business angel investing and been closely involved with Government and private sector initiatives to promote informal venture capital.
Professor Dan Johansson
HUI Research, Sweden
Dan Johansson is Professor of Economics at the HUI Research Institute in Sweden. His research interests include: entrepreneurship, firm dynamics, structural transformation, institutional economics, enterprising and conditions of enterprising.
Professor Deniz Ucbasaran
Warwick Business School
Deniz is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) at Warwick Business School. Her research centres around the individual entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial team at the heart of entrepreneurial activity.
Professor Donald Siegel
Dean, School of Business, University at Albany, State University of New York
Donald's research interests include; university technology transfer, impacts of entrepreneurship and technological change, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and the economics of gambling.
Professor Douglas Cumming
Ontario Research Chair, Schulich School of Business, York University
Douglas's research interests include venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, entrepreneurship, and law and finance.
Professor Eleanor Shaw
Head of Department, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde
Eleanor's research interests include entrepreneurial philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial networks and forms of entrepreneurial capital.
Professor Erkko Autio
Chair in Technology Venturing and Entrepreneurship
Erkko's research interests are in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship policy, innovation ecosystems, innovation momentum strategies, business model innovation and innovation from Big Science.
Professor Friederike Welter
Advisory Group
Prof. Dr. Friederike Welter is President of the IfM Bonn (Institut für Mittel-standsforschung) and professor for SME management and entrepreneurship, at University of Siegen, Germany,
Professor George Saridakis
Kingston University Business School
George is Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship and his research focuses on the econometric analysis of cross-sectional, time-series and panel data related to entrepreneurship, small businesses and illicit behaviour.
Professor Gerard Hodgkinson
Professor of Strategic Management and Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School
Gerard's research focuses of the analysis of cognitive processes in strategic decision making (including the nature and role of intuition) and the evaluation of techniques for overcoming cognitive bias and inertia in such decisions.
Professor James Hayton
Associate Dean Doctoral Programme, Warwick Business School
James’ research interests are in the applied psychology of entrepreneurship and the application of HRM practices to the development of entrepreneurial capabilities in established organisations.
Professor Jim Love
Professor of International Business and Innovation - Warwick Business School
Jim Love is Professor of International Business and Innovation at Warwick Business School. His background is in applied microeconomics, and his research is principally into innovation, exporting and foreign direct investment of firms.
Professor Jonathan Levie
Director of Knowledge Exchange, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde
Jonathan leads ERC's research theme exploring the impact of Entrepreneurial Ambition in SME growth. His research interests include venture growth, business model change and entrepreneurship policy.
Professor Kiran Trehan
University of Birmingham
Kiran is Professor of Leadership and Enterprise Development at the University of Birmingham. She is a leading expert on enterprise, and diversity in ethnic minority entrepreneurship. She has been instrumental in shaping policy on work on supply chain relationships, access to finance and access to markets in ethnic minority businesses.
Professor Leon Oerlemans
Tilburg University, Netherlands
Leon is Professor in Organisation Dynamics and founder member of the Centre of Innovation Research (CIR). His current research is in inter-organisational relationships and networks, innovation, and temporary organisation with a special focus on SMEs.
Professor Mark Hart
Deputy Director - ERC
Mark is Deputy Director of the ERC and Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Aston Business School. At the Centre he is responsible for the research theme focusing on Business Demography, Productivity, Local Growth and Business Support. At Aston University he is also one of the Programme Directors and Academic Lead for the national Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme and has worked and published extensively in the areas of entrepreneurship, enterprise and small business development and policy.
Professor Michael Fritsch
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Michael's main fields of research are new business formation processes and their impact on economic development, innovation systems and innovation behaviour, economic development strategies, as well as markets and market failure.
Professor Mika Maliranta
Research Director, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
Mika is Research Director at the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) at the University of Jyvaskyla. His research interests include; productivity, micro-level dynamics of productivity growth, job and worker flows, spillovers, ICT, R&D, education and competition.
Professor Mike Wright
Associate Director
Mike is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London. At the ERC he leads the research theme on finance and governance. His research interests include entrepreneurship, family businesses, entrepreneurial finance and governance.
Professor Monder Ram OBE
Director, Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME), Birmingham University
Monder has extensive experience working with, researching and acting as a consultant to small and ethnic minority businesses and is a leading authority on small business and ethnic minority entrepreneurship research and has published widely on the subject.
Professor Nick Wilson
Director of the Credit Management Research Centre (CMRC)
Nick's work combines academic rigour with practical and policy relevance. He has held the Chair in Credit Management and Finance at Leeds University Business School since 1998 and is Director of the Credit Management Research Centre (CMRC). He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Credit Management (FICM).
Professor Robert Kloosterman
University of Amsterdam
Robert is Professor of Economic Geography and Planning, he is interested in what kind of economic activities take place in contemporary urban environments and how they are related to other aspects such as the institutional framework, the historical legacy in terms of economic orientation and urban morphology, and also to other urban developments, more specifically processes of polarisation of incomes and of insertion of migrants.
Professor Sara Carter
Associate Director
Sara is Deputy Principal at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde University. At the ERC Sara leads the research on under represented groups in enterprise. Her research focuses extensively on entrepreneurship policy, gender, entrepreneurship and finance; and rewards and lifestyles within the entrepreneurial household.
Professor Saul Estrin
Head of School of Management, London School of Economics (LSE)
Saul's research interests include: business opportunities and investment strategies in emerging markets, privatisation, transition economics and economic development, labour and industrial economics and competition and foreign direct investment.
Professor Sophie Manigart
Vlerick Business School, Ghent University, Belgium
Sophie's research focusses on the financing strategies of entrepreneurial companies, including venture capital, private equity and business angel finance.
Professor Stephen Roper
Director - ERC
Steve is Director of the Centre and Professor of Enterprise at Warwick Business School (WBS). His research interests include innovation, enterprise growth and development, regional development, and industrial policy evaluation.
Professor Sumon Bhaumik
Sheffield University Management School
Sumon is an established scholar who has both published in major international peer-reviewed journals, and has contributed to policy debates in the United Kingdom and India. His research has provided input for research and reports of organisations such as OECD, the Reserve Bank of India and the World Bank. Over the past ten years, he has worked on a number of research projects, some involving multi-country teams, funded by a wide range of agencies including ESRC.
Professor Susan Marlow
University of Nottingham Business School
Susan is Professor of Entrepreneurship and her research interests lie in the broad area of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behaviour with a particular focus on the influence of gender upon women’s entrepreneurship, high technology business incubation and employment relations.
Professor Tomasz Mickiewicz
Head of Economics & Strategy Group, Aston Business School
Professor Tomasz Mickiewicz joined Aston Business School in January 2012. He is now Head of the Economics and Strategy Group at Aston Business School. His previous position was Professor of Comparative Economics at SSEES University College London (since 2008), where he started as a lecturer in 1996. At the ERC he is part of the research team looking at Entrepreneurial Ambition.
Rebeca I. Muñoz Torres
Senior Lecturer
Rebeca I. Muñoz Torres is a Senior Lecturer in Economics. She joined the Westminster Business School in September 2008. Rebecca graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with a first class degree in Economics and a postgraduate diploma in Mathematics Applied to Economics.
SUMA ATHREYE
Professor in International Strategy
SUMA ATHREYE is Professor in International Strategy at Brunel Business School and is a member of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and International Business Group.
Tiago Botelho
Lecturer
Tiago Botelho, is a Lecturer in Finance and Business Strategy at the Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia. He is a specialist in business angel finance and undertaking large-scale quantitative analysis.
Yanqing Lai
Research Assistant
Yanqing Lai is a Research Assistant in Leadership/HRM in Edinburgh Napier Business School. She received her PhD in Business Management from Kingston University London in 2016,
