The Centre for Enterprise and Innovation areas of expertise
Our research addresses three key themes, detailed below. Our research is published in leading peer-reviewed academic journals as well as books and official reports. Wherever possible these are available through Open Access.
Looking to the future, CEI is making valuable contributions to the ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ strategies for Enterprise, Research, Local and global development, including the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Inclusive entrepreneurship in context
- Immigrant and ethnic minority entrepreneurship
- Gender and entrepreneurship
- Social enterprise and innovation
- Organisational resilience and business continuity
- Strategic entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial orientation and dynamic capabilities
- Context: place, institutional environment, intersectionality, base of pyramid markets
- Entrepreneurship in fast-developing world economies: China, India, Africa
- Intercultural entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial means and resources
- Entrepreneurial learning and education
- Open entrepreneurship
- Access to entrepreneurial finance and resources
- Access to market opportunities: supply diversity, procurement, supply chains
- Logistics and supply chain management
- ICT in mobility and project-based entrepreneurship
- Social media and entrepreneurship
Innovation in context
- Open innovation, open data and smart cities
- Innovation policy and strategies
- Innovation ecosystems
- Institutional complexity in scientific knowledge production
