David Kirk

1970 - MA (Honours) Sociology, (Upper Second), University of Aberdeen

1972 - M.Phil. Town & Regional Planning, University of Glasgow

1983 - Diploma in Management Studies, Dundee Institute of Technology

• Refereed Journals

  Environmental Context and Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises,International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Vol.4, No.2, 1998, pp 88-100

  Best Practice Diffusion in a Polish National Investment Fund: a comparative study from an institutional theory perspective, Journal of Eastern European Management, Vol.5, No. 4, 2000, pp324-340, (with C. Malone)

  Factors affecting entrepreneurship in transition economies: an evaluation of the development cycles of Polish MBOs, International Journal of Applied Management, Vol.2 No.1, 2001, pp534-64, (with D. Pollard)

  Systemic influences upon the operation of innovation and technology transfer intermediaries,International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Vol.2, No.11, April 2002, pp47-59 (with D. Pollard)

  University-Industry Collaboration: Grafting the Entrepreneurial Paradigm onto Academic Structures,European Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 10, Issue, 2007, pp316-332 (with L. Dooley)

• Project Report

  Contributor to "Do's and don'ts for biotech cluster development: the results of NetBioClue", Europe Innova - Innovation and Clusters, NetBioClue Project, 2008, EC FP6- innova-6 Contract No. 022484

• Professional Journals

   

• Conference Papers

  Management Education and the Development of SMEs in Poland. SMEs in a Learning Society Conference, University of North London, June 1996.

  Entrepreneurial Context and Behaviour in SMEs. University of Paisley, September 1997.

  The Use of Bench-Marking to Promote Competitive Change in SMEs - Polish Manufacturing SMEs Learning from Scottish SMEs. The 1st International SMESME Conference, University of Sheffield, April 1998.

  Start-up Enterprise Training: What do the Participants Want? Enterprise and Learning Conference, University of Aberdeen, September 1998. (with Bell, S. & Pate, J.).

  Best Practice Diffusion in a Polish National Investment Fund (NIF): a comparative study from an institutional theory perspective. Irish Academy of Management Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, September 1998. (with Malone, C.)

  Performance Reporting in Local Government and the Paradox of Compliance and Innovation.International Labour Management Conference, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, October 1999.

  Sustaining Competitive Advantage through E-Business: The Implications for Manager Development in a Regional Economy. International Conference of the Higher School of Social Sciences in Tychy, Poland, October 1999.

  European Quality Management Systems in Manufacturing SMEs: Obtaining SME Manager 'Buy in' to Change Management. 22nd ISBA National Small Firms Policy & Research Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, November 1999. (with Paterson, J.)

  Embreonix: A Programme for Graduate Enterprise. 23rd ISBA National Small Firms Policy & Research Conference, University of Aberdeen, November 2000.

  Graduate Enterprise - Experience of Education Provisions for Student Entrepreneurs. VII International Science Conference, Management of Economic Organisations in Radical Change Conditions, Technical University of Lodz, December 2001.

  Managing the growth process: a case study of a small Scottish food manufacturing firm. 33rd EISB Conference, SDA Boccini, Milan, September 2003

  Sustaining Innovation through Rites of Passage. 35th EISB Conference, IESE Business School, Barcelona, September 2005

  Biotechnology Innovation: Managing university-industry collaboration for effective knowledge creation and innovation. Irish Academy of Management, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, September 2006 (with Dr. L. Dooley)

  Structuring Successful R&D Collaborations. 30th Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, Glasgow, November 2007

• Other publications

  Procedure of creation and introduction of new modules, Quality Assurance in Higher Education, (ed. K. Zoldiewicz), University of Gdansk, 2000, pp105-111 Start Up Enterprise Training: What Do the Participants Want?, Enterprise and Learning, A.R. Anderson and S. L. Jack ed., University of Aberdeen, 2001, pp305 - 331, (with S. Bell and J. Pate)