Lecturer/Senior Lecturer Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Company description:

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

Job description:

The Role

Do you have a passion for entrepreneurship and innovation?

Would like to be part of a team shaping entrepreneurship and innovation, teaching, research and impact?

We seek to appoint one outstanding Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship & Innovation (T&R). You will be able to demonstrate research excellence - as evidenced by high-quality publications - and deliver excellent teaching. You will have a strong research and scholarly trajectory in Entrepreneurship & Innovation with significant potential to generate research income, pursue impact activities, and to develop an international reputation. You will be dedicated to contributing to the success and development of Newcastle University Business School. You will join a vibrant Marketing, Operations & Systems Subject Group and a Business School that is committed to collegiality and academic citizenship. Within the Marketing, Operations and Systems Subject Group you will be joining a dynamic group in entrepreneurship and innovation that continually seeks to make a difference through research, teaching and scholarship excellence

We have long-established national and international collaborations across the academic, policy and practice spheres in entrepreneurship and innovation. Our community leads major research projects such as the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE), Creative Fuse North East, and the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC). As a research community, we have a broad range of research interests across different aspects of entrepreneurship and innovation. These include entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems, critical entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, innovation policy, creative enterprises, creative economy, business model innovation, social and public innovation, entrepreneurship and international development, academic entrepreneurship, technology and knowledge transfer, entrepreneurial universities, technology and innovation management, open innovation, sustainable innovation, nascent entrepreneurship, graduate start-ups, entrepreneurial psychology, entrepreneurial identity, gender and entrepreneurship, regulation, systems of innovation, evaluation of enterprise-related policies, regional development and micro-businesses. We are open to new variations within our broad field.

We publish in leading journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Small Business Management, Regional Studies, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Small Business Economics, Studies in Higher Education, Journal of Technology Transfer, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Business and Society, Journal of Business Research and R&D Management among others. Members of our research community are active in national and international academic associations, serve as journal editors, and are on peer-review panels for funding bodies.

We have an established track record of sharing our research expertise and knowledge and collaborating with several stakeholders on policy and practice issues within our region, nationally and internationally, for example advising UK Departments BEIS and DCMS and the North of Tyne Combined Authority regionally. We contribute to a range of teaching programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We are launching a new MSc in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainability for the next academic year, and plan to develop more new programmes that you would be able to shape.

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