Entrepreneur to Employer? – Dr David Achtzehn and Dr Robert Wapshott
October 29, 2020
New research project seeks entrepreneurs to tell their stories Entrepreneurs and their ventures are vital contributors to economies around the world. A big part of this contribution is in providing significant numbers of jobs. Governments, business support providers and academics know quite a bit about effective management practices in new and small enterprises and how …
Pathway for poverty alleviation via potato industrialisation in China?
October 26, 2020
In this blog, Dr Bin Wu, Xiyao Wang and Chi Xu investigate how industrialisation of potato production in the Yi minority region of Sichuan, China can lead to a pathway for poverty alleviation. Regarding the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is a big challenge to help smallholder farmers – who feed two-thirds of the …
Insights from 40 years in Business and Academia – Professor Martin Binks
October 2, 2020
Martin Binks has worked in academia and business since the late 1970s, and served as the Dean of Nottingham University Business School for a number of years. Now an Emeritus Professor, Martin has written a series of essays entitled ‘Dinosaurs are getting younger: Insights drawn from 40 years in business and academia’, drawing on his …
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