I am a Professor at Warwick Business School (WBS) at the University of Warwick. Although a Canadian, I have spent my career in Europe, working at four different UK universities. I started at SPRU at the University of Sussex as a doctoral student and then a research fellow, where I had a wonderful cohort of PhDs, mentors and colleagues. In 2003, I moved to Imperial College London. I transferred to a faculty post as a senior lecturer in 2005. I was promoted to Reader in 2008 and then Professor in 2010. In 2013, I moved to the University of Bath, where I was a group head and then REF Director. In 2023, I joined WBS.

My research focuses on open and distributed models of innovation, innovation management, R&D project selection, AI new ventures, and university–industry collaboration. I try to engage with policy and practice through collaborative projects with industrial and government partners.

I have published in a wide range of journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. I have recently stood down after six years as an editor at Research Policy.

Over the past year I have been developing open-source, free educational games and simulations for students and lifelong learners in entrepreneurship and innovation. They are designed for deep play, allowing students to explore a rich possibility space and experiment with options, and to be played many times, as they are challenging, with moments of fun and levity mixed in. I have a sideline creating academic humour comics, which I appreciate is a bit of an oxymoron.

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