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CREI members

The Centre for Research on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CREI) is the specialist research centre at Bath focused on innovation and entrepreneurship.

CREI brings together world-renowned researchers and PhD students from the School of Management.

Highly regarded for its work on innovation, the centre shows its research strength through:

  • exceptional publication and citation rates
  • growing grant acquisition
  • diverse international collaborations with preeminent academics.

CREI's members have held editorial positions in prestigious international journals. Many of these are the top journals in their field.

Members

  • Dr Poornika Ananth
    Research interests: creativity and the dynamic processes through which individuals and groups navigate tensions in creative work, particularly in the context of long-term creative endeavours

  • Dr Mariachiara Barzotto
    Research interests: globalisation, skills, labour markets, foreign direct investments (FDIs), technological changes, regional development

  • Dr Akhil Bhardwaj
    Research interests: extreme events, organizational disasters, failures of innovation, implications of AI adoption

  • Dr Anlan Chen
    Research interests: growth trajectories of new ventures and start-ups within university innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems, SME growth and development within the cultural and creative industries, corporate entrepreneurship in incumbent firms

  • Dr Daniela Defazio
    Research interests: innovation, entrepreneurship, crowdfunding, social networks, strategic management, economics of science

  • Prof Panos Desyllas
    Research interests: competitive and corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, intellectual property management, service innovation, business models

  • Prof Dimo Dimov
    Research interests: (social) entrepreneurship, (social) innovation, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, microfinance, design science

  • Dr Virgilio Failla, Deputy Director
    Research interests: entrepreneurship, labour market, employment mobility, parenthood effects, innovation, applied microeconometrics

  • Dr Richard Fairchild
    Research interests: behavioural and neuro-economics, behavioural game-theory and applications to organisations, social enterprise, financial contracting between (social) investors and (social) entrepreneurs, conflicts between organisations' economic and social incentives, international environmental agreements

  • Dr Winifred Huang
    Research interests: corporate finance, dividend policy, corporate liquidity, alternative finance, SME finance, entrepreneurial finance

  • Dr Weixi Liu
    Research interests: entrepreneurial and small business finance, venture capital and private equity, behavioural finance, government support on financing innovation and entrepreneurship, small business growth dynamics and internationalisation

  • Dr Fei Qin
    Research interests: global talent mobility, innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems, work organisation, human resources, and innovation, networks and entrepreneurship, returnee entrepreneurship

  • Dr Anna Roberts
    Research interests: new organisational forms, platforms, platform-dependent entrepreneurs, institutional theory, microfoundations of institutions

  • Dr Rossella Salandra
    Research interests: science policy, scientific misconduct, publication bias, evaluation of scientific research

  • Dr Anastasia Sergeeva
    Research interests: entrepreneurship, strategy, organization theory, interpretative understandings of entrepreneurial reasoning, value-laden aspects of innovating and organising

  • Dr Chenjian Zhang
    Research interests: strategic management, entrepreneurship, organisational change & innovation, trust research, neo-institutional theory, social networks, corporate social responsibility

  • Dr Na Zou
    Research interests: social contexts influencing the success and failure of entrepreneurial activities, how family background and social networks influence entrepreneurial entry and performance, how linkages to universities enhance firms' technological innovation

PhD students

  • Muthla Al-Busaidi
  • Andy Khootama
  • Pearl Motha
  • Arash Pordel
  • Mohammad Hussain Salehi

Associate members

  • Mathias Boënne
    Research interests Front end innovation, idea generation, idea selection, feedback in organisations, hierarchy, decision-making.
  • Dr Stefano Baruffaldi
    Research interests: economics and management of innovation, diffusion of knowledge, human capital mobility, scientific productivity, university-industry links
  • Pablo D’Este
    Research interests Innovation, university-business interactions, entrepreneurship, networks, societal impact.
  • Dr Patrick Gaule
    Research interests: economics, labour, education and health economics
  • Cornelia Lawson
    Research interests Research Productivity, Scientist Mobility, Research Funding, Gender Bias, University-Industry Collaboration.
  • Christos Kolympiris
    Research interests Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Organizational Learning, Secondments, Commercialization, Venture Capital, Innovation, Scientist Mobility, Patents, Academic Entrepreneur.
  • Prof Orietta Marsili Research interests: innovation, new firm survival, entry and exit strategies, human resources, mergers and acquisitions.

Enquiries

Professor Dimo Dimo d.p.dimov@bath.ac.uk +44 (0)1225 384963