Studentship Networks

The proposal unities White Rose management and Business Schools in researching knowledge exchange networks associated with innovation, enterprise and enterpreneurship

The network enables enhanced, multi-disciplinary, research focused in this economically and socially critical area by intergrating complementary strengths from

Technology and Innovation Group (TiGr) at Leeds Univesity Business School.

Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED) at the University of Sheffield's Management School and

Management Systems Group (MSG) from the Management School at the University of York

The bid recognises the recent growth in capacity within enterpreneurship, innovation and knowladge management at individual White Rose Universities, e.g establishing TiGr (Leeds, 2006) York's new professor in Enterpreneurship and management Systems (2007) and the foundation of CREED.  All three Schools have ESRC recognition and PhD training programmes befitting this status.  Supersisors expertise will be supplemented by capitalising on knowlege of other researchers e.g Prof. Thorpe (Leeds) through the ESRC Evolution of Business Knowlege project and Dr. Huggings (Sheffield) through his ESRC HEI Knowledge and its impact on Competitiveness project.  Selecting business in Yorkshire as the research context and building on exisiting engagement with Yorkshire Forward will assist in ensuring regional relevance and impace to world-class research.  Strategically, this collaboration could form the base for a social-science-based White Rose capability in innovation research to emulate that in the NW