Doctoral Studies Awards previous years

Funding has been awarded to:

Xiuqin Li, Manchester Business School, PhD title: An exploration of how “open R&D” influences the innovation process in R&D services firms
Ambra Mazzelli, Lancaster University, PhD title: How strategic objectives and actions affect value creation through its influence on decisions concerning technology and innovation management in SMEs
Antonius H. van den Broek, University of the Arts, London, PhD title: Strategy development in digital design firms
Bing Bing Ge, Lancaster University, PhD title: Family involvement and innovation in SME’s: a human resource management perspective
Nitish Gupta, Cambridge University, PhD title: Establishing links to technology, product and business in the process of project assessment and portfolio balancing

Funding has been awarded to:

Mohammad Yasser Darvizeh, Manchester Business School, PhD title: Dynamic capabilities in new product development and its effect on firms’ performance
Anna Walker, Manchester Business School, PhD title: A multilevel investigation into the psychology of Front End innovation
Xingkun Liang, Cambridge University, PhD title: Insight into the international R&D network – understanding and designing global innovation network.
Xia Meng, University of Bath, PhD title: The application of forecasting methods in companies and other organisations
Hyunwook Hwangbo, Lancaster University, PhD title: An examination of how approaches to product design differ nationally by examining organisational cultures: a study of East and West
Marc Szepan, Oxford University, PhD title: M&A Strategy, Latecomer Firms and Acquisition Integration

Funding has been awarded to:

Stephen Anderson-Macdonald, London Business School, PhD title: “The role of ‘Management Capital’ in innovation and business transformation for emerging market entrepreneurs.”
Laurens Chaskel, Cambridge University, PhD title: “Strategic management of intellectual property portfolios in academic research, with particular reference to the needs of SMEs.”
Tobias Langenberg, Lancaster University, PhD title: “SA and M&A portfolios.”
Katia Pina, Manchester University, PhD title: “Business and Management.”
Radomir Tylecote, Imperial College London, PhD title: “How can foreign investors in China’s solar PV and concentrated solar power (CSP) sectors create safer investment strategies when transferring patent-based intellectual property?”

Clemens Chaskel, Cambridge University, PhD title: “Technology management: design and customisation of analytical tools.”
Sara Hajnassiri, Cambridge University, PhD title: “Defining and measuring the value of product development processes.”
Michael Ilevbare, Cambridge University, PhD title: “An investigation into the treatment of risk and uncertainty in roadmapping.”
Yi-Chang Lee, Lancaster University, PhD title: “Innovative product design decision-making in SMEs.”
Harald Overholm, Cambridge University, PhD title: “The role of business model innovation in sustainable technology diffusion: how product-service system firms can create growth in innovative technology industries.”
Claire Weiller, Cambridge University, PhD title: “Promoting R&D and commercialisation of electric vehicles.”

Mahdi Amin, Cambridge University, PhD title: “Managing globally outsourced new product development.”
Magda Hassan, Cambridge University, PhD title: “Global R&D networks: a cultural perspective on social network analysis, intra-organisational knowledge flow and organisational innovation.”

Jan-Niklas Keltsch, Cambridge University, PhD title: “Managing technology: the link to business strategy and operations.”
Lan Tao, Cambridge University, PhD title: “Managing the process of radical innovation in established companies.”