Research themes
Our research delivers insights that shape business strategy, public policy, and innovation ecosystems worldwide.
We study digital platforms, entrepreneurial finance, blockchain, and AI ethics, as well as social innovation, sustainability, and the future of work. Drawing on interdisciplinary methods and real-world data, we collaborate with industry, NGOs, and policymakers to address complex challenges, such as digital government transformation, inclusive innovation, and value creation in the digital age.
Our work informs decision-making, advances knowledge, and drives meaningful societal impact.
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
- Decentralised digital economy and blockchain-enabled business models
- Consumers' technology acceptance and resistance in digital innovation.
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
- Innovation dynamics in emerging economies and poverty reduction
- Sustainable supply chains and global health challenges.
Social media
- Automation and the digital advertising ecosystem
- Emotions, communication and interactions in social media platforms
- Evolution of social media platforms.