Research themes
Our world-leading researchers advance knowledge at the intersection of entrepreneurship, innovation, and the digital economy. Through cutting-edge work on digital platforms, responsible innovation, and sustainable enterprise, they shape new ways of creating value, driving transformation, and addressing global challenges for business and society.
Digital platforms and new business ecosystems
- Business strategy in the age of digital competition
- Digital platform innovation
- Digital platforms and international development
- Digital platforms, ecosystems performance and governance
- Digital value creation and capture and digital business models
- Ecosystems emergence and evolution.
Digital transformation of government
- Digital government
- Open data and digital transformation in the public sector
- Open data, digital transformation and innovation in the public sector.
Entrepreneurship and innovation
- Emerging working practices in the digital age
- Entrepreneurial finance, venture capital and business angel
- Failure and legitimacy in entrepreneurship
- Gender and entrepreneurship
- Scale-ups in the digital economy.
Ethics and privacy of big data
- Artificial intelligence and business decision making
- Ethics and AI
- Governance and business responsibilities of digitalisation
- Responsible innovation in the digital economy.
Social innovation and sustainability
- Cultural entrepreneurship in global challenges
- Social entrepreneurship
- Social impact investing and responsible management
- Sustainable innovation for social inclusion
- Unintended consequences of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Social media
- Automation and the digital advertising ecosystem
- Emotions, communication and interactions in social media platforms
- Evolution of social media platforms.