Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship comprises a group of academic staff with research interests in two related areas: design innovation and entrepreneurship, spanning both commercial and social sectors. This includes research wholly contained within one of these disciplines or bridging both subjects.

The centre has a reputation for a collaborative and participatory approach to teaching and research, ensuring impact for its stakeholders.

The profile of our team, most of whom are both practitioners and scholars, helps to ensure continual collaboration between academic and non-academic applied settings. We, therefore, welcome and encourage students from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Students may join directly from university studies or be experienced professionals, for example, established entrepreneurs or designers.

Our research areas include:

Entrepreneurship

Strategy

Entrepreneurial behaviours

Mergers and acquisitions

Entrepreneurship education

Social justice

Innovation leadership and culture

Enterprise education

Design thinking

Service design

Wicked problems

Social innovation

Interdisciplinary partnerships

Drivers of company performance

Design innovation

Design for sustainability

Design

Consumer behaviour

Design for policy

Feminist design

Futures and scenarios

Human-centred design / prototyping

UX/interface design / human-computer interaction

Ethics, governance, and regulation of emerging technologies and AI

Design for social innovation

Advertising

Nature-centred design

For more information visit the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/innovation/