The Gothenburg School of Business,Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg is one of Sweden's leading business schools,located in Gothenburg. It was founded in 1923 as an independent business college and is situated in the centre of the city. In 1961,it was integrated into the state-run university system,still as a separate college,but then was integrated into the University of Gothenburg in 1971.
Northumbria University is a public research university located in Newcastle upon Tyne,North East of England. It has been a university since 1992,but has its origins in the Rutherford College,founded in 1877.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences,mainly to universities in the United Kingdom. EPSRC research areas include mathematics,physics,chemistry,artificial intelligence and computer science,but exclude particle physics,nuclear physics,space science and astronomy. Since 2018 it has been part of UK Research and Innovation,which is funded through the Department for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Senapathy "Kris" Gopalakrishnan is an Indian businessman and the Chairman of Axilor Ventures,an accelerator that helps start-ups during the early stage of their business journey. Kris served as the vice chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014 and the chief executive officer and managing director of Infosys from 2007 to 2011. Kris is one of the co-founders of Infosys.
George Yip is Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Imperial College Business School,London. Former professor and co-director of the Centre on China Innovation at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). Other academic positions at Harvard,Georgetown,UCLA,Cambridge,London Business School. Now living in Boston and Maine,USA,and London. Former Dean of Rotterdam School of Management,Erasmus University. His book,Total Global Strategy:Managing for Worldwide Competitive Advantage was selected as one of the 30 best business books of 1992 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries. Also,author or co-author of Pioneers,Hidden Champions,Change Makers,and Underdogs:Lessons from China's Innovators (2019),China's Next Strategic Advantage:From Imitation to Innovation (2016),Strategic Transformation (2013),Asian Advantage:Key Strategies for Winning in the Asia-Pacific Region (1998),and Total Global Strategy. Over 10,000 citations on Google Scholar. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of California Management Review,LRP and MIT Sloan Management Review. Boards of Hewnoaks Artist Colony (Maine) and MassOpera and Board of Advisors of Boston Lyric Opera. Chair of Research Advisory Committee,SKEMA Business School,France. Former board member of IDM,Glunz AG,Arlington Capital Management and Data Instruments,Inc.,former advisory board member of Sonae SGPS and American University of Cairo Business School
David Michael Gann CBE is a British academic administrator and civil engineer. He is Vice-President (Innovation) at Imperial College London and a member of the College's Executive Board. His academic research spans strategy,management science and systems engineering. He is Vice-Chair at Villars Institute.
Lilian Edwards is a Scottish UK-based academic and frequent speaker on issues of Internet law,intellectual property and artificial intelligence. She is on the Advisory Board of the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and is the Professor of Law,Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University.
Georg von Krogh is a Norwegian organizational theorist and Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and holds the Chair of Strategic Management and Innovation. He also serves on Strategy Commission at ETH Zurich.
The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion is one of the Queen's Awards for Enterprise,and is awarded annually to people who play an outstanding role in promoting the growth of business enterprise and/or entrepreneurial skills in other people. It is bestowed by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Recipients receive an engraved crystal glass commemorative item,a Grant of Appointment and are invited to a reception at Buckingham Palace.
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Professor Barry Clarke is a British civil engineer. He specialises in geotechnical engineering and is Associate Director of the Institute of Resilient Infrastructure at Leeds University. Clarke has also worked at Cambridge University and at Newcastle University,where he obtained his first degree. He is a prolific writer with more than a hundred research papers and reports to his name and has written a textbook on pressuremeters in engineering applications. Clarke has sat on many construction industry committees and bodies,particularly those associated with engineering education.
Andreas Pinkwart is a German politician and academic who served as State Minister for Economic Affairs,Digitization,Innovation and Energy in the governments of Ministers-President Armin Laschet and Hendrik Wüst of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2022. He previously was the Dean of HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and holder of the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank Chair of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.
Dipankar Das Sarma,popularly known as D.D. Sarma,is an Indian scientist and structural chemist,known for his researches in the fields of Solid State Chemistry,Spectroscopy,Condensed Matter Physics,Materials Science,and Nanoscience. He is a former MLS Chair Professor of Physics and Chairman of the Centre for Advanced Materials and the GAST Professor of Uppsala University,Sweden,A recipient of TWAS Physics Prize and the UNESCO Biennial Javed Husain Prize,Sarma was honored by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),Government of India,in 1994,with the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology.
Nils Göran Arne Roos FTSE is a Swedish academic,technologist,author and businessman. He is a specialist in the field of intellectual capital and an expert in innovation management and strategy. He was appointed Thinker in Residence on industry development by the Government of South Australia in 2011,and subsequently moved to the state's Economic Development Board,where he serves as a member. Amongst a number of other positions,he is also a member of the Flinders University Council. Roos was named one of the 13 most influential thinkers for the 21st century by the Spanish business journal Direccion y Progreso.
Sivanandi Rajadurai aka Mylaudy Dr. S. Rajadurai is a scientist in the field of catalysis,physical chemistry,and emission control,focused on protection of the global environment and is a corporate executive. He is chairman of the Rajadurai Foundation.
Tebello Nyokong is a South African chemist and distinguished professor at Rhodes University,and a recipient of South Africa's Order of Mapungubwe. Nyokong's work has been published around 450 times including a patent. She was awarded the South African Chemical Institute Gold Medal in 2012,and named one of the Top 10 Most Influential Women in Science and Technology in Africa by IT News Africa. She is currently researching photo-dynamic therapy,an alternative cancer treatment method to chemotherapy. In 2007,she was one of the top three publishing scientists in South Africa,and in 2013 she was awarded the National Research Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Michael Dowling is an American scholar,and Professor of Innovation and Technology Management at the University of Regensburg,in Germany.
The European Innovation Council (EIC) was introduced by the European Commission to support the commercialization of high-risk,high-impact technologies in the European Union. The fully-fledged EIC was launched March 2021 under Horizon Europe and is incorporated within the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA). Its goal is to aid researchers,start-ups and SMEs bring their innovations to market by providing funding,networking and partnership opportunities,and business acceleration services. In its latest form,the concept has been put forth by the EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas in mid-2015. The EIC has a budget of €10.1 billion to support innovations throughout the lifecycle from early stage research,to proof of concept,technology transfer,and the financing and scale up of start-ups and SMEs.
John S. Fossey was a British chemist. He was a professor of synthetic chemistry at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom,and a visiting professor at Henan Normal University and guest professor at East China University of Science and Technology,both in China. His research was in molecular recognition and catalysis,and he was a user of boronic acid derivatives. He was a former industry fellow of the Royal Society.
Melissa Hanna-Brown is a British pharmacologist. She works for Pfizer UK and is a visiting professor at the University of Warwick.
Rose Anne Kenny is an Irish geriatrician. She is the Regius Professor of Physic and a professor of medical gerontology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD),director of the Falls and Black-out Unit at St James's Hospital in Dublin,director of the Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing and founding principal investigator for The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). She was admitted in 2014 to the Royal Irish Academy in recognition of academic excellence and achievement. Kenny is a fellow of Trinity College Dublin and of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Ireland,London and Edinburgh.
