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 Mariachiara Barzotto
Research interests: globalisation, skills, labour markets, foreign direct investments (FDIs), technological changes, and regional development.Professor Linus Dahlander
Research interests: open and distributed innovation, organising the innovation process, communities, and networks.Dr Daniela Defazio
Research interests: innovation, entrepreneurship, crowdfunding, social networks, strategic management, economics of scienceDr Panos Desyllas
Research interests: competitive and corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, intellectual property management, service innovation, business modelsProf Dimo Dimov
Research interests: (social) entrepreneurship, (social) innovation, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, microfinance, design scienceDr Virgilio Failla, Deputy Director
Research interests: entrepreneurship, labour market, employment mobility, parenthood effects, innovation, applied microeconometricsDr 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 agreementsProfessor Marco Giarratana
Research Interests: corporate strategy, diversification, intangible assets, strategic CSRDr Winifred Huang
Research interests: corporate finance, dividend policy, corporate liquidity, alternative finance, SME finance, entrepreneurial financeDr 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 internationalisationDr Fei Qin
Research interests: global talent mobility, innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems, work organisation, human resources, and innovation, networks and entrepreneurship, returnee entrepreneurshipDr Melanie Richards
Research interests: family firms, entrepreneurship, innovation, corporate social entrepreneurshipDr Anna Roberts
Research interests: new organisational forms, platforms, platform-dependent entrepreneurs, institutional theory, microfoundations of institutionsDr Rossella Salandra
Research interests: science policy, scientific misconduct, publication bias, evaluation of scientific researchProf Ammon Salter
Research interests: technology and innovation management, open and distributed innovation, social networks and innovation, university-industry collaborationDr Stoyan Stoyanov
Research interests: strategic management, social networks, embeddedness, liabilities of foreignness, migrant entrepreneurship.Michael Willis
Research interests: the limitations and opportunities of working capital management with emphasis on trade credit, integrational limitations when undertaking corporate activity, the impacts of firm valuation post corporate actions and the real value creation anomaly.Dr Chenjian Zhang
Research interests: strategic management, entrepreneurship, organisational change & innovation, trust research, neo-institutional theory, social networks, corporate social responsibility
PhD students
- Norah Alshaikmubarak
- Stephanie Christianty
- Zehan Hou
- Huma Javaid
- Angeliki Karvasili
- Athanasia Lampraki
- Yuhao Li
- Jinfeng Lu
- Alessandro Lucini Paioni
- Ahmed Mansour
- Riccardo Nucci
- Robert Pearce
- Athina Petropoulous
- Patrick Prince
- Ying Wang
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.