Biographies

Professor Alistair Anderson
As Director of the Charles P. Skene Centre for Entrepreneurship, Professor Anderson’s main role is to develop their research activities. He is also involved as research coordinator for the Business and Management group of Aberdeen Business School. In addition to his own and the Centre’s research, he enjoys supervising a number of PhDs. Dr Anderson also teaches on some of RGU’s entrepreneurship and research methods courses. In addition to his role at the Centre, he has a number external duties including; membership of several journal Editorial Boards; external examining and doctoral supervision; reviewing and validations.

Alistair has a practical background in entrepreneurship. With his family, he has started and run a number of enterprises, including pubs, quality knitwear manufacturing, construction, property development and a small hotel. However, a number of years ago these practical experiences raised his intellectual curiosity about entrepreneurship and for the last 15 years or so he has studied the entrepreneurial process. Most of his publications represent my efforts in that direction and he is also Editor of Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.

Alistair Anderson

Dr Heather Fulford
Dr Fulford is Reader in Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland. Her research interests include social enterprise start-up and governance and social entrepreneurship education. She is currently working on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership in a leading social enterprise, and supervising a number of doctoral students in aspects of social entrepreneurship. Her lecturing commitments included postgraduate and undergraduate modules on new venture creation. 

Heather Fulford

Professor Cam Donaldson
Cam Donaldson holds the Yunus Chair in Social Business & Health at Glasgow Caledonian University. From 2002-2009, he held the Health Foundation Chair in Health Economics at Newcastle University, where he was founding Director of the Institute of Health & Society and professor in the Newcastle University Business School. He held the Svare Chair in Health Economics at the University of Calgary from 1998-2002, having first become a professor of health economics in 1996 whilst at the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen. Over the past 25 years, Cam has published over 190 peer-reviewed articles in economics, medical, health policy and health management journals and has co-authored or edited several books on various aspects of health economics and public service delivery.

Cam Donaldson

Brinda Ramasawmy is researching for a PhD (Sep 2008-Dec 2011) at International Centre for Higher Education in Agricultural Science, Montpellier SupAgro, France. Her PhD supervisor is Dr Fatiha FORT and she is examining the adaptation strategies in the Mauritian vegetable supply chain in the context of an institutional change.

Brinda Ramasawmy

Marion Titgemeyer is a senior scientific manager and an assistant professor in business studies at the University of Osnabrueck and the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Osnabrueck. Her research interests include entrepreneurship as well as taxation and accounting.

Marion Titgemeyer

Gerold Holtkamp is a director of the joint technology transfer office of the Osnabrueck universities, Germany. His expertise in technology transfer and entrepreneurship is based on 25 years in industry and universities. His interest is focused on specially adapted support instruments for scientific entrepreneurs.

Gerold Holtkamp

Dr Claire Auplat
Claire Auplat, researcher in innovation, eco-entrepreneurship and environmental strategies, has worked on the co-industrial and institutional emergence of nanotechnologies for the last decade, firstly at Rice University (US), then at Sciences Po’s chair of sustainable development (France) and at Imperial College business school (UK), and now at Advancia School of entrepreneurship (France). Claire is a member of the French Research Council (ANR) specialist committee on eco-innovation (ECOTECH). Her areas of interest cover public policy and entrepreneurial dynamics, innovation and sustainable development. She has published widely in these areas and is a member of the editorial board of Society and Business Review, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business and Scandinavian Journal of Management

Claire Auplat

Dr Sandra Fielden
Sandra L. Fielden is a Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology in the Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester. She has been editor of Gender in Management: An International Journal over the last 10 years, and received an Outstanding Service in 2010. For the last 4 years Sandra has been co-chair of the ‘Gender and Management’ track at the British Academy of Management and European Academy of Management and a founder member of the ‘Gender in Management’ special interest group. She is co-editor of ‘International Research Handbook of Successful Women Entrepreneurs’ and ‘International Handbook of Women and Small Business Entrepreneurship’.

Sandra Fielden

Dr Helena Forsman
Dr Helena Forsman is working as a Senior Lecturer in Management (Entrepreneurship and Innovation) at the Business School of the University of Winchester. At the moment she has two ongoing research projects: “Networking as an Accelerator of Innovations in Small Enterprises” and “The Relationship between Growth and Innovation in SMEs”. In this capacity, Helena is collaborating with several European research organizations. In addition, she is running her own consulting business.

In recent years Helena has been a productive author of academic publications in the field of innovation development in SMEs. She has published articles also on entrepreneurial learning with a special interest on how to link innovation efforts of SMEs to serve as learning challenges of university students. Helena can be contacted via email: helena.forsman(at)winchester.ac.uk. Her Linked-In profile is: http://fi.linkedin.com/in/hforsman

Helena Forsman

Brendan Galbraith
Brendan is an innovation academic in the Ulster Business School, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. He recently guest edited a special issue in the Technology Analysis and Strategic Management Journal “Managing open innovation intermediaries in the technology transfer process” and has published widely in academic journals. He is a partner in two European FP7 innovation projects – ‘MAPEeR SME’ (Making Progress and Economic Enhancement a Reality for SMEs) [FP7-SME-2009] and PARTERRE (Electronic Participation Tools for Spatial Planning and Territorial Development) [ICT-PSP-2009-3bis]. Brendan co-founded two living labs in Northern Ireland and served on the European Network of Living Labs Leadership Portfolio Group. Brendan is experienced in business model development with high-tech companies and within large scale EC ICT projects.

Brendan Galbraith

John Howard
John Howard is a qualified Nurse and is a senior lecturer and course leader for the MSc by eLearning in Health Informatics at the University of Central Lancashire. John's research interests have developed from an initial focus on training needs analysis to include maturity modelling, open systems data models and the role of individual competency in the change process. Lately he has focused on using these approaches, derived from work in change management within the Health Care domain to Innovation in general and in the setting of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in particular.

John Howard

Dr Alexandros Kakouris
Alexandros Kakouris is a part time lecturer in entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Athens. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics and a M.Sc. in Adult Education. He has been involved in entrepreneurship research since 2006, involved mainly with educational issues. His special interest concerns fostering of entrepreneurship and innovation to science graduates and support of youth entrepreneurship through counselling. He also specialises in nascent entrepreneurship and virtual business planning.

Alexandros Kakouris

Professor Veli Pekka Niitamo
Professor Veli Pekka Niitamo has held several key executive positions with Nokia during his 16+ year tenure at the company including Director of Strategic Resourcing, Director of M work Strategy and more recently Research Director of User-driven Innovation. Professor Niitamo was appointed as Chair and Ambassador for the Dutch Innovation Strategy on User Driven Innovation Towards Global Lead Markets under Prime Minister Balkenende and the Dutch Innovation Platform 2008-2009. Professor Niitamo has been a key figure in formation and rapid growth of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) and is currently an Executive in Residence at Aalto University, a senior board member at Process Vision Oy and a visiting Professor at the University of Ulster.

Veli Pekka Niitamo

Dr Ann-Charlotte Teglborg
Ann-Charlotte Teglborg, researcher in employee driven innovation, is Professor of employee driven innovation and intrapreneurship and the Manager of the Intrapreneurship program of Advancia’s Master Degree in Entrepreneurship.  She is presently Administrator of Innovacteurs, a French professional association dedicated to participatory innovation and an active member of the EDI- network dedicated to the European research on Employee driven innovation and Work place learning. Her last article has been published in Transfer-Sage.

Ann-Charlotte Teglborg

Dr Marianne Tremaine
Marianne Tremaine is a senior lecturer at Massey University, New Zealand and part of the indigenous Kai Tahu tribe. She specialises in cross-cultural communication, women and leadership, equal employment opportunity and managing diversity.

Marianne Tremaine

Dr Doan Winkel
Doan Winkel is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Illinois State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. His research has been published in the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and the Journal of Vocational Behavior. His current research interests include the impact of entrepreneurship education, innovative teaching methods in entrepreneurship, and work-life balance.

Doan Winkel