POSITIONS: Dubai Ports World Professorship of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (University of Oxford)

[entrepreneurship-phd at lists.uni-due.de]

University of Oxford
Dubai Ports World Professorship of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in association with Green Templeton College
The deadline for applications is Monday 17 May 2010.


The University intends to appoint a Dubai Ports (DP) World Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation as soon as possible in 2010.

Following the generosity of global logistics operator DP World, the University established the DP World Professorship of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Saïd Business School. The Saïd Business School (SBS) regards entrepreneurship as a distinguishing feature of its research and teaching profile, alongside finance, strategy, and business in society. Historically, much of our entrepreneurship activity has been built up through the Higher Education Innovation Fund which supports open entrepreneurship programmes, attracting 22,000 university members and participants from the Oxford community over the last six years. All MBA students undertake an Entrepreneurship Project, a popular aspect of the programme.

A research agenda is slowly beginning to emerge and has been shaped thus far by those faculty with interests in entrepreneurship and innovation (in particular in the area of technology). The focal point for all these activities is the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (OxCEI). Based around SBS and Isis Innovation activity, Oxford has an international reputation as an entrepreneurial university and we are a leading university for 'entrepreneurship' in Europe.

In appointing to this important post, the School seeks to appoint someone who has gone beyond organizational approaches to integrate institutional, social, cultural, cognitive, or political processes involved in innovation, as aligned with the research strengths of current faculty. Those who have explored issues of entrepreneurship and innovation in a science or technology domain are of particular interest, complementing work done elsewhere in the School. An important aspect of this professorial role will be to serve as academic director of the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (OXCEI) based in the School. www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/entrepreneurship.

Further information may be obtained from Professor Roy Westbrook, Head of Department at the School (roy.westbrook at sbs.ox.ac.uk) and all enquiries will be treated in strict confidence; they will not form part of the selection decision.

More info at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/wd31-0310.shtml