Impact Activities

• (2025). INSME (International Network for SMEs). Panel Lead and Briefing Paper for Annual Summit, Alicante, Spain. October 2024. ‘Intellectual Property, Trademarks and SMEs’ (with H.Tam Bui)
• (2024). INSME (International Network for SMEs). Panel Lead and Briefing Paper for Annual Summit, Rome. October 2024. ‘ESG and SMEs’ (with H. Tam Bui)
• (2023-25). Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), Innovate UK with Bartech Ltd. Lead Academic. To explore and embed strategies for new technology and market development for an adaptive entrepreneurial organization for SME in the marine industry service sector.
• (2023). INSME (International Network for SMEs). Panel Lead and Briefing Paper for Annual Summit, Berlin. October 2023. ‘AI and SMEs’ (with P. Dey)
• (2022). INSME Briefing Paper for Annual Summit, Sofia, Bulgaria. Panel Lead and ‘SMEs, Climate Change and Digitisation’
• (2022 to 2024). Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), Innovate UK. With Lewden Ltd. Lead Academic. To explore and implement strategies to enable a successful but very traditional company to 'jump the growth curve' in competition by positioning themselves as an entrepreneurial firm with a capacity for design-led innovation through the development of customised digitisation, information, and platform development strategies.
• (2022 to 2023). Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), Innovate UK. With Brightstar Ltd. Lead Academic. To examine working practices and embed leading-edge management theory to drive operational efficiency in a financial advice SME.
• (2022 to 2023). Evaluating Inclusive Investment. Government of West Bengal, India, and West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation. Principal Investigator
• (2022) International Network for SMEs (INSME). Mentor for High Technology firm, based in Bulgaria and the UK (starting March 2022)
• (2022). Innovation: Is the Future Female? Keynote at Confederation of Indian Industry Workshop: Harness the Power of Innovation. Ignite Annual Women Leadership Summit. 2 March 2022
• (2020). ‘What Price Valuation’: Evaluating Valuations for Start-U To examine working practices and embed leading-edge management theory to drive operational efficiency in financial advice SMEs. and Early-Stage Growth, 2-day management development programme for Portugal Ventures, Porto, Portugal; 20-21 February
• (2019). The Wider Impact of Digitalization on SMEs. 15th INSME Annual Meeting Fintech & Logistics, International Network for SMEs (INSME), Naples, Italy, 6-7 June 2019 (Keynote and Chair of Panel
• (2019). Artificial Intelligence, Robots and SMEs; Webinar for International Network of SMEs (INSME); 13, February
• (2019). Venture Capital: The Current State of Affairs and Lessons for Portugal, 2-day management development programme for Portugal Ventures, Porto, Portugal, 16-17 January
• (2018) Making Innovation Great Again (!): Negotiating Innovation as a Public Good for Sustainable Public Value; ‘PROSPETIVE Investire Nel Futuro Perfuna Crescita Sostenible Bologna, Museo Della Misica, 29 May’(keynote)
• (2018) Openly Innovating SMEs? 14th INSME Annual Meeting
• INDUSTRY 4.0 FOR SMES’ BUSINESS GROWTH, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, 17th, and 18th of May (panelist) plus authorship of Briefing Paper on Industry 4.0 and SMEs for INSME members annual meeting
• (2018) Innovation as a Public Good; La Technologica Del; Futuro: Minnacia O Speranza, Unicoop Firenze, Dynamo Academy, Florence, Italy, 9-10 February, (keynote)
• (2017) The Sharing Economy and its Disruptive Business Models, INSME Annual Meeting, Improving Productivity in SMEs and their Role in Global Value Chains, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 15-17 May 2017 (panelist)
• 2016) Developing and Managing SMART SMEs in SMART Environments: How Smart Technologies are facilitating Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth in Smart Urban Ecosystems', International Network of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Webinar Presentation to 70 global SMEs; 23 June
• Note also that several academic and public policy impact projects have also involved either direct business participation or reference to business development objectives.
• Substantial number of informal, unpaid advice to, especially, SMEs on a regular basis

Note also that several academic and public policy impact projects have also involved either direct business participation or reference to business development objectives.

• (2025). 1000 Ideas Programme, Austrian Government, FWF Der Wissenschaftsund (FWF Science Fund. Member of the Jury/Scientific Advisory Board, Vienna, Austria; June
• (2024). 1000 Ideas Programme, Austrian Government, FWF Der Wissenschaftsund (FWF Science Fund. Member of the Jury/Scientific Advisory Board, Vienna, Austria; June
• (2022) 1000 Ideas Programme, Austrian Government, FWF Der Wissenschaftsund (FWF Science Fund. Member of the Jury/Scientific Advisory Board, Vienna, Austria; June
• (2021). 1000 Ideas Programme, Austrian Government, FWF Der Wissenschaftsund (FWF Science Fund. Member of the Jury/Scientific Advisory Board, Vienna, Austria; April.
• (2020). 1000 Ideas Programme, Austrian Government, FWF Der Wissenschaftsund (FWF Science Fund. Member of the Jury/Scientific Advisory Board, Vienna, Austria; April.
• (2019), Flemish Government. Evaluation of the Flemish Policy, Research Centre Economy, and Entrepreneurship. Report by Panel of international experts. On behalf of Flemish Government Department of Economy, Science and Innovation, Brussels, Belgium. (With Becker, B. (Aston U.), Groen, A., Lorenzen (Cophenhagen BS))
• (2018) OECD. ‘Transnational Entrepreneurship,’ September, OECD, Paris
• (2016) OECD, Factors Affecting SME Growth and Policy Options for Internationalisation’ Policy Session 2 Enhancing Entrepreneurial Skills and Innovation Capabilities to better integrate SMEs in the Global Market; Good Practices in SME Policy: Panel Discussions; Launch of the SME Policy Index and Western Balkans and Türkiye 2016; OECD Conference Centre, Paris France Western Balkans, and Türkiye SME.
• (2016) OECD, Local Enterprise, and Employment Development Annual Forum: Workshop Presentation on ‘Citizen Entrepreneurship’; OECD; Venice, Italy; 18-19, April.
• (2016): Smart Ecosystems and Smart SMEs’ OECD, International Network of SMEs Annual Conference, Doha, April 12-14 (keynote).
• (2015) Public Policy and SME Internationalisation: A European-OECD Perspective: APEC Public-Private Dialogue on facilitating SMEs Goods and Service Providers and Exporters to Better Integrate into Regional and International Markets, 21-22 April 2015, Da Nang City, Vietnam (keynote) (2014) ‘IL FUTURO DELL’ECONOMIA, Tra l’Italia e il nulla: il tesoro nascosto delle economie , Teatro di San Carlo, Napoli, Future Forum, 22 - 28 Ottobre 2014 (keynote)

• (2025). Innovate to Elevate Knowledge Transfer Project with Divitae Ltd. on SME and AI Adoption. Project cost - £10,000. 3-month project
• (2023 to 2025). Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), Innovate UK with Bartech Ltd. Lead Academic. To explore and embed strategies for new technology and market development for an adaptive entrepreneurial organization. Total Project Costs £210,257. 24-month project
• (2022 to 2024). Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), Innovate UK. With Lewden Ltd. To explore and implement strategies to enable a successful but very traditional company to 'jump the growth curve' in competition by positioning themselves as an entrepreneurial firm with a capacity for design-led innovation through the development of customised digitisation, information, and platform development strategies. Total project funding: £190,602. 24-month project
• (2022-23). Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), Innovate UK. With Brightstar Ltd. To examine working practices and embed leading-edge management theory to drive operational efficiency in a financial advice SME. Total project funding: £185,972. 24-month project.
• (2022-23). Evaluating Inclusive Investment. Government of West Bengal, India, and West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation. Total Project Value £26,000 (from March 2022).
• (2019-22) Citizen Entrepreneurship, Regional Studies Association; Research Development and Knowledge Exchange project with Leuphana University, Germany and University of Lodz, Poland (10,000 Euros). 2020 to 2023,
• (2016-17) Social Entrepreneurship Education Development Programme, with the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), funded by the British Council (Project Value - £20,000); December 2015 to date.
• (2015) Train Transnational, Entrepreneurship Education Project with Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany, funded by the European Union, European Social Fund and State of Brandenburg (Project Value – 8403 Euro); January 2014 to March 2015
• (2014-15) Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Programme with Thurrock District Council – supporting SMEs through student-based consultancy and academic mentoring – (Project Value c £35,000) from 2014-15

Other notable funding generated in past years: £100, 000 for Entrepreneurship Development in the Thames Gateway region (2004-2007); Shandong Wego Medical Devices Group, China: c £80,000 p.a.for 5 years (2005-2008), and EU funding over £1m with the Department of Electronic and Systems Engineering.. Previous income generating activities amount to well over several million UK £s at Essex and 4 previous institutions