The University of Westminster has launched the new Entrepreneurship Research Group and held its first event with a presentation from Professor Christos Kalantaridis, Dean of Westminster Business School (WBS).
On 5 December, Westminster colleagues from across the University gathered to listen to Professor Christos Kalantaridis present his paper. Co-authored with Merle Kuttim, the paper is titled Multi-dimensional Time and Innovation Ecosystems: A Critical Realist View of the Accumulated Literature.
The event was opened by Dr Spinder Dhaliwal, Reader in Entrepreneurship, who spoke about the importance of research collaboration in exchanging ideas and the excitement of what a research group will bring to the University.
The Entrepreneurship Research Group aims to present current and cutting-edge research from Westminster’s own academics and key speakers from other universities and organisations, strengthening Westminster’s profile and presence in research-led teaching, knowledge exchange and funding. As a literature-based paper, Professor Kalantaridis’ work strongly celebrates the power of collaboration.
Led by Dr Dhaliwal, the group will showcase and draw together the research strengths of academics in the field. It will engage external speakers as well as academics, postgraduate and PhD students. The group will hold regular research seminars to give academics the opportunity to present their work in progress and receive feedback to develop it for publication in quality journals for the Research Excellence Framework (REF), which is used to assess research in UK higher education and allocate funding.
Whilst the scope within the discipline is broad, the priorities of the group are entrepreneurship, innovation and enterprise development; ethnic minority entrepreneurs, diversity, inclusion, inequality, ethics and gender; young entrepreneurs; social entrepreneurship, compassion and entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship education, research informed teaching; and entrepreneurial policy, Finance and Marketing.
About the launch of the group Dr Dhaliwal said: “I am delighted that so many academics are interested in joining the Group and we aim to showcase the latest cutting edge research in the field of Entrepreneurship. I look forward to collaborations, attracting funding and PhD students.”
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