Driving Force for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Thursday 21 March 2013
Professor Alan Brown has been appointed as the Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation for the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law.
This is a new post that will see Professor Brown building a strategy for Entrepreneurship and Innovation across Surrey Business School, the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, the School of Economics, School of Law and the Department of Health Care Management and Policy. He’ll also work with colleagues across the Faculty and the University to build a rich network for collaborative research, teaching, consultancy and executive education in this field.
Professor Brown joined Surrey Business School from industry in September 2012 and has a strong track record in software-driven innovation and agile software delivery. He’ll be bringing the benefit of this expertise to his new role, “I’m very much looking forward to building on our excellent work on enterprise and innovation to support our students, academic colleagues and the businesses we work with to accelerate bringing their ideas to fruition.”
Professor Brown is focusing his current research activities on how innovation practices in complex corporate and public sector environments can be streamlined for greater flexibility in delivering value to stakeholders. He already has a number of initiatives underway including a collaboration between Surrey Business School and IBM to support the banking industry to build agile thinking and innovation into their practices. Additionally, a public sector innovation project is looking at how local government can make use of the latest thinking in this field. As Professor Brown explained, “Understanding and maximising the potential impacts of these, and other, projects is important and we’ll be creating opportunities to share the insights we’re developing. We’ve a great road ahead of us!”
