Professor Kostas Galanakis
Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Management and Marketing, School of Business
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Biography
Kostas is Professor (Chair) of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship in the School of Business. Kostas has published extensively in the field of Innovation Systems and Regional Transformation. Kostas initiates and delivers research collaborations in Business and Industrial Transformation, Regional Innovation Systems and the Energy Transition.
Prior to the current position, Kostas was Professor (full) at Burgundy School of Business and Associate Professor at Nottingham Business School (NBS), Nottingham Trent University, Senior Lecturer at the University of Crete and Senior Research Fellow at the Science and Technology Park of Crete.
Research
Kostas has a PhD on Modelling Innovation Systems from University of Warwick, Warwick Manufacturing Group. Kosta’s research focuses on analysing the complex world of Innovation at different levels: enterprises, regional, national and intra-national. To unveil the complexity of these systems, Kostas uses a Systems Thinking approaches that illustrate the plurality of inter-relations among different actors. Furthermore, this approach unveils “hidden” relations. The latter are often taking place as consequence of unintentional results or secondary influences of actions, which often are masked because of time-lags.
His research has explored cases from a wide range of sectors, such us the automotive, food, industrial electronics, biotechnology and currently the energy sector. Kostas publishes in Journals such as: Regional Studies, Technovation and Omega: The International Journal of Management Science.
Under the latest stream of research Kostas’ work explores the transition towards a sustainable energy and mobility future that is led by local actions and practices.
Teaching
Kostas leads the design and delivery of Postgraduate and Doctoral Programmes in the areas of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship. Previously guided and supervised 11 PhD and DBA researchers as Principal Supervisor. Furthermore, he was the Program Leader of the MSc Entrepreneurship and MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at Nottingham Business School, between 2016 and 2020.
External activity
- Expert Panel Member for Horizon Europe, MSCA-ITN Evaluator.
- International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) Member
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship external advisor for the University of West Macedonia’s Management of Technology Research lab (MATER).
Projects
Smart-BEEjS - Human-Centric Energy Districts: Smart Value Generation by Building Efficiency and Energy Justice for Sustainable Living (Horizon2020, MSCA-ITN), Project Coordinator, budget €4mil.
STARTENT - Fostering Business-University Partnerships for Entrepreneurship Education in Europe (ENTR/CIP/09): Provided support to young entrepreneurs to start their own ventures and internationalise their activities. Disseminated good practices and ideas to support entrepreneurial activity. Developed case studies and action-based activities for enterprise education. Budget, €625K.
Creative Trainer II (Life long Learning / Leonardo): Produced innovative training material for creativity, innovation and marketing. Trained more than 300 individuals on innovation related themes. Budget, €400K.
REMPART+ (ENT/ERA/10): Provided support to young entrepreneurs to mobilise and internationalise their activities across Europe. Budget, €200K.
KBB Trans (Life long Learning / Leonardo): Developed innovative training material for Business Models development and Technology Transfer. Trained more than 200 professionals across Europe. Budget, €335K.