Professor Vadim Grinevich,

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Innovation

Biography

Vadim Grinevich is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Innovation and the Head of the Research Cluster on Transformative Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses at the University of Bradford School of Management. Vadim’s key expertise is in the field of academic entrepreneurship, innovation and university-industry links. His research develops an inclusive approach which helps shed light on the nature and extent of entrepreneurial activities by academics with different intersectional profiles, from both STEM and non-STEM disciplines and across different types of universities. Vadim is also interested in digitally enabled sustainable entrepreneurship. He has published in top journals including Research Policy, Small Business Economics, Journal of Technology Transfer, Technovation, Environment and Planning C, International Journal of Management Reviews, and Gender, Work & Organizaton. Vadim’s research has been supported by UK Research Councils, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship Fund, European Commission, NESTA and local and devolved administrations.

Vadim was previously the Head of Research at the Wolverhampton Business School. Before that, he led the Centre for Inclusive and Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Southampton Business School. He was also Faculty Director of Graduate School at Business, Law and Art & Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. Vadim is keen to use all his knowledge, experience and skills to help further enhance the profile of the entrepreneurship & innovation education and research at the School of Management, with particular emphasis on the co-creation of value for communities, individuals and organisations locally, nationally and internationally.

Vadim holds a PhD in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge where he was a Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholar. He was a Regional Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Washington, D.C., and held research positions at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge-MIT Institute and Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies. He was lecturing at the University of Suffolk, and remains a Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton. He is also internationally affiliated with the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi, Pakistan, and was previously a Visiting Professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands and Ege University, Turkey as well as chairing the European Academy of Management Doctoral Colloquium.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Abreu, M., & Grinevich, V. (2024). The entrepreneurial university: Strategies, processes, and competing goals. The Journal of Technology Transfer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-024-10085-7

Abreu, M., & Grinevich, V. (2024). Intrapreneurial ecosystems in academia and their overlooked outputs: Graduate employability and wellbeing. Technovation, 133, 102996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102996

Karatas-Ozkan, M., Tunalioglu, R., Ibrahim, S., Ozeren, E., Grinevich, V., & Kimaro, J. (2024). Actioning sustainability through tourism entrepreneurship: Women entrepreneurs as change agents navigating through the field of stakeholders. Central European Management Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/CEMJ-12-2021-0159

Ejaz, L., Grinevich, V., & Karatas-Ozkan, M. (2023). Women’s informal entrepreneurship through the lens of institutional voids and institutional logics. Gender, Work & Organization, 30(4), 1254–1272. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12968

Lee, H.-Y., Grinevich, V., & Chipulu, M. (2023). How can value co-creation be integrated into a customer experience evaluation? European Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2023.07.004

Redgrave, S. D. J., Grinevich, V., & Chao, D. (2023). The relevance and impact of business schools: In search of a holistic view. International Journal of Management Reviews, 25(2), 340–362. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12312

Karatas-Ozkan, M., Baines, L., & Grinevich, V. (2023). Inclusive governance of partnerships for sustainability: Methodological matters. In Handbook of Research Methods for Corporate Governance (pp. 110–127). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781802202892/book-part-9781802202892-14.xml

Karatas-Ozkan, M., Grinevich, V., Baines, L., & Baruch, Y. (2023). Women Leaders South West Programme (WLSW) Experiences of People with Disadvantaged Backgrounds with Leadership and (Social) Entrepreneurship in Arts: Implications for Entrepreneurial and Policy Ecosystems [Report]. University of Southampton. https://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk/handle/10454/19441

Grinevich, V., Huber, F., Karataş-Özkan, M., & Yavuz, Ç. (2019). Green entrepreneurship in the sharing economy: Utilising multiplicity of institutional logics. Small Business Economics, 52(4), 859–876. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-017-9935-x

Baines, L., Grinevich, V., & Karatas-Ozkan, M. (2019). Digitalisation and the role of the board. In Research Handbook on Boards of Directors (pp. 401–419). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.elgaronline.com/display/edcoll/9781786439741/9781786439741.00034.xml

Abreu, M., & Grinevich, V. (2017). Gender patterns in academic entrepreneurship. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 42(4), 763–794. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-016-9543-y

Hausemer, P., Rzepecka, J., Dragulin, M., Vitiello, S., Rabuel, L., Nunu, M., Rodriguez Diaz, A., Psaila, E., Fiorentini, S., Gysen, S., Meeusen, T., Quaschning, S., Dunne, A., Grinevich, V., Huber, F., & Baines, L. (2017). Exploratory study of consumer issues in online peer-to-peer platform markets: Final report. European Commission. https://doi.org/10.2838/779064

Abreu, M., Demirel, P., Grinevich, V., & Karataş-Özkan, M. (2016). Entrepreneurial practices in research-intensive and teaching-led universities. Small Business Economics, 47(3), 695–717. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-016-9754-5

Grinevich, V., Huber, F., Baines, L., & Eder, M. (2015). Upscaling in the sharing economy: Insights from the UK. University of Southampton; University Seeburg Castle. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/389358/

Grinevich, V. (2015). Design and service innovation: A strategic management perspective (D. Sangiori, A. Prendiville, J. Jung, & E. Yu, Eds.; pp. 47–48). Lancaster University. http://imagination.lancs.ac.uk/sites/default/files/outcome_downloads/desid_report_2015_web.pdf

Abreu, M., & Grinevich, V. (2014). Academic Entrepreneurship in the Creative Arts. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 32(3), 451–470. https://doi.org/10.1068/c11144r

Abreu, M., & Grinevich, V. (2013). The nature of academic entrepreneurship in the UK: Widening the focus on entrepreneurial activities. Research Policy, 42(2), 408–422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2012.10.005

Abreu, M., & Grinevich, V. (2013). Academic Entrepreneurship and the Geography of University Knowledge Flows in the UK. In R. Crescenzi & M. Percoco (Eds.), Geography, Institutions and Regional Economic Performance (pp. 187–206). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33395-8_10

Abreu, M., & Grinevich, V. (2013). Academic Interactions with Private, Public and Not-for-Profit Organisations: The Known Unknowns. In J. J. M. Ferreira, M. Raposo, R. Rutten, & A. Varga (Eds.), Cooperation, Clusters, and Knowledge Transfer: Universities and Firms Towards Regional Competitiveness (pp. 181–206). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33194-7_10

Echenique, M. H., Grinevich, V., Hargreaves, A. J., & Zachariadis, V. (2013). LUISA: A Land-Use Interaction with Social Accounting Model; Presentation and Enhanced Calibration Method. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 40(6), 1003–1026. https://doi.org/10.1068/b38202

Grinevich, V. (2013). Region-specific productivity competitiveness and the universityindustry interface. In Knowledge Commercialization and Valorization in Regional Economic Development (pp. 184–208). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.elgaronline.com/display/edcoll/9781781004067/9781781004067.00017.xml

Abreu, M., Grinevich, V., Kitson, M. and Savona, M. (2011) The changing face of innovation policy: Implications for the Northern Ireland economy | Department for the Economy. https://www.economy-ni.gov.uk/publications/changing-face-innovation-policy-implications-northern-ireland-economy

Abreu, M., Grinevich, V., Kitson, M., & Savona, M. (2010). Policies to enhance the ‘hidden innovation’ in services: Evidence and lessons from the UK. The Service Industries Journal, 30(1), 99–118. https://doi.org/10.1080/02642060802236160

Abreu, M., Grinevich, V., Hughes, A., & Kitson, M. (2009). Knowledge exchange between academics and the business, public and third sectors. University of Cambridge; Imperial College London. http://www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/pdf/AcademicSurveyReport.pdf

Abreu, M., Grinevich, V., Hughes, A., Kitson, M., & Ternouth, P. (2008). Universities, business and knowledge exchange. University of Cambridge; Council for Industry and Higher Education. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/357118/

Abreu, M., Grinevich, V., Kitson, M., & Savona, M. (2008). Absorptive capacity and regional patterns of innovation. Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100503135839/dius.gov.uk/policies/innovation/white-paper

Abreu, M., Grinevich, V., Kitson, M., & Savona, M. (2008). Taking services seriously: How policy can stimulate the ‘hidden innovation’ in the UK’s services economy. National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/assets/features/taking_services_seriously

Hughes, A., & Grinevich, V. (2007). The contribution of services and other sectors to Australian productivity growth 1980-2004: A report prepared for the Australian Business Foundation. Australian Business Foundation.

Hughes, A., Druilhe, C., & Grinevich, V. (2006). The incubation and spin-off system for high technology firms in the Cambridge sub-region and Oxfordshire. A report by the University of Cambridge Centre for Business Research for the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan.