InnoLab visitors

Visitors of the University of Vaasa InnoLab Research Platform

Omar Al-Tabbaa

Affiliation: Leeds University Business School 
Professor in International Business & Strategy / Director of Research

Innovation Areas of expertise: Digitization, GVCs, Business Model Innovation, digital platform, SMEs Internationalization, Social alliance, University-Industry ties, Technology Transfer, strategic alliance and emerging economies.

Omar Al-Tabbaa

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah

Affiliation: Durham University
Professor of International Business

Areas of expertise: research engages with the sub-discipline of international business and strategy, focusing specifically on business failure in emerging economies.

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah

Ahmad Arslan

Affiliation: Oulu Business School, University of Oulu
Professor, Department of Marketing, Management and International Business

Areas of expertise: Agility & Resilience, Entrepreneurship, Emerging Economies, International Business, Management and Mergers & Acquisitions

Ahmad Arslan

Dimitris Assimakopoulos

Affiliation: Burgundy School of Business
Professor, Digital Management

Areas of expertise: Digital Leadership

Dimitris Assimakopoulos

Darren Dalcher

Affiliation: National Centre for Project Management, Lancaster University Management School 
Professor, Strategic Project Management

Dalcher is Professor in Strategic Project Management at Lancaster University Management School. He is a senior academic with a successful track record of consulting and working with businesses, charities, professional associations and governmental organisations.

Darren Dalcher

Muthu De Silva

Affiliation: Birkbeck, University of London
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Department of Management. Assistant Dean (Research), School of Business, Economics and Informatics

Muthu De Silva is a Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her research contributes to our knowledge on co-creation.

 
Muthu De Silva

Stephen Flowers

Affiliation: University of Vaasa
Visiting Researcher, Innovation and Entrepreneurship InnoLab

Current Publication: Mapping the new world of innovation: the Innovation Opportunity Space. 

 

Ismail Gölgeci

Affiliation: Aarhus University
Associate Professor, Department of Business Development and Technology

Areas of Expertise: Supply Chain Management, Resilience, Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Ismail Gölgeci

Sofia Johan

Affiliation: Florida Atlantic University
Associate Professor, Finance Department

Areas of Expertise: Entrepreneurial Finance, Alternative Investment (VC, PE, REITS, Hedge Funds), Alternative Finance/Fintech (Crowdfunding, Peer to Peer Lending, Marketplace Lending, ICOs), and Law and Economics. 

 
Sofia Johan

Huda Khan

Affiliation: University of Aberdeen
Senior Lecturer, Marketing

Areas of Expertise: Marketing, International Marketing 

 
Huda Khan

Zaheer Khan

Affiliation: University of Aberdeen
Professor in Strategy & International Business

Areas of expertise include global technology management, international alliances, post-acquisition behavior of emerging markets' firms, automotive industry, internationalisation of SMEs, and CSR practices of firms operating in emerging markets.

 
Zaheer Khan

Benjamin Laker

Affiliation: Henley Business School
Professor of Leadership and Postgraduate Research Director in the department of Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour

Areas of expertise: Organisation Studies, Political Philosophy, Social Theory

Benjamin Laker

Helen Lawton Smith

 

Affiliation: Centre for Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck University of London
Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Management

Helen has specialised in studies of innovation and entrepreneurship in both high-tech and traditional sectors in the UK, Canada, France and Belgium, with a particular interest in university-industry interaction.

Helen Lawton Smith

Yong Kyu Lew

Affiliation: HUFS Business School of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Professor of International Business and Associate Dean

Lew’s research interests are on strategic alliances, global strategies, and institutions and innovation.

 

Pushyarag Nellikka Puthusserry

Affiliation: University of Kent
Senior Lecturer in Strategy & International Business

Pushyarag’s research focuses mainly on internationalisation of SMEs, specifically on internationalisation business models, and the potential relevance of psychic distance, network relationships, innovation and learning.

 
Pushyarag Nellikka Puthusserry

Yekaterina Pak

Affiliation: University of Vaasa
Doctoral Candidate at the University of Vaasa

 
Yekaterina Pak

Federica Rossi

Affiliation: UNIMORE Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia 

PhD in Economics and Complexity. Research interests are in the fields of Science and Technology Policy, Economics and Management of Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation Activities of Firms and Networks of Firms, Economics and Governance of Higher Education.

 
Federica Rossi

Abhijit Sengupta

Affiliation: University of Surrey
Head of Department of Business Analytics and Operations, Associate Professor (Reader) in Business Analytics

Areas of expertise: Economics of innovation and technology management, knowledge exchange and research in Higher Education, global strategy, complex systems and network dynamics.

 
Abhijit Sengupta

Saqib Shamim

Affiliation: Queen Mary University of London
Programme Director, MSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Social Innovation and Strategy

Areas of expertise: innovation management, digital transformations, dynamic capabilities and strategic alignment.

 
Saqib Shamim

Noemi Sinkovics

Affiliation: University of Glasgow 
Reader in International Business 

Areas of expertise: The driving force behind her research is to make a contribution to knowledge production at the business-society interface. Her research focuses on how organisations can conduct business in an environmentally and socially sustainable way without risking financial viability.

Noemi Sinkovics

Jie Wu

Affiliation: University of Aberdeen
Professor of strategy and entrepreneuship

Jie Wu, Ph.D., is a chair (full) Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at University of Aberdeen in the UK. His current research focuses on inequality and status identities, culture and institutions, innovation and entrepreneurship, internationalisation, etc. He is presently serving as an associate editor for both Asian Business & Management and Technovation. 

 
Jie Wu

Nadia Zahoor

Affiliation: Queen Mary University of London
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Strategy

Nadia’s research focuses on two interrelated areas of international strategy and entrepreneurship. First, she studies the dynamics of alliance networks by SMEs. She is interested in investigating how alliance networks are formed and managed. Second, her research relates to the creation of value in SMEs. She studies how alliance networks allow SMEs to achieve sustainability, innovation and internationalisation.

 
Nadia Zahoor

Jing Zeng

 
  • Affiliation: University of Leicester
    Professor of Strategy and Innovation