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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 51³Ô¹Ïapp 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

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