Dr Simone Corsi
Senior LecturerProfile
Simone joined 抖阴APP导航 Management School from Loughborough Business School, where he was Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation. Prior to that, he spent five years working as a manager at the University of Manchester China Institute (2018-2019) and at the 抖阴APP导航 China Catalyst Programme (LCCP – 2014-2018), a ?5 million Lancaster University project which aimed at creating and supporting R&D partnerships between UK and Chinese organisations. During his time at LCCP Simone advised more than 60 UK SMEs on their China strategy.
He obtained a PhD in Management from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa (Italy)(2012), where he is a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Management.
He is Associate Director at the Centre for Global-Eco Innovation, 抖阴APP导航.
His most recent research interests are at the intersection of innovation studies, political economy, and critical management scholarship, with a distinctive focus on how innovation is produced, legitimised, and governed beyond the Global North. Drawing on a strong foundation in R&D and innovation management, his work critically discusses dominant, Western?centric theories of innovation by foregrounding Global South actors and environments, alternative development pathways, and asymmetric power relations in global innovation systems.
Beyond his research interests, Simone has worked extensively with Italian, UK, and Chinese Government institutions to set up and deliver cooperation programmes and official business delegations.
Research Interests
With a research background in R&D and innovation management, I conduct research in the broad field of innovation studies. Specifically, I have two main research interests:
Global Innovation from the Global South: my most recent research projects in this area build on unequal exchange theory and neo-Gramscianism to contribute to the global sustainable innovation and decolonization of innovation discourses. Other projects in this area build on different management theories and concepts (e.g. RBV, upper echelons, geographic ambidexterity) to investigate and discuss the implications of the reverse innovation phenomenon as well as to identify its micro and macro determinants.
University-Industry Collaboration: current projects look at the role of universities in steering and help SMEs navigate the funding and business support landscape. Other projects have adopted Triple Helix, Transaction Cost Economics, and the Uppsala Internationalization Model perspectives to investigate the role of universities as business internationalization platforms.
Research Grants
Principal Investigator for British Academy/Leverhulme Trust small grant:
"Reversing the gear: Corporate governance determinants of reverse innovation in the Indian pharmaceutical industry".
Value: ?8,788.40.
Co-I: Dr Vidya Panicker, Loughborough Business School
External Roles
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the International Family Enterprise Centre, Taylor's University.
External Examiner, Imperial College Business School.
Senior Research Associate, Research Centre for Global R&D Management (GLORAD).
Research Affiliate, Institute of Management, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa (Italy).
Qualifications
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
PhD Supervision Interests
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the broad area of global innovation. Topics can include: sustainable innovation from the Global South, decolonization of innovation, legitimacy of innovation from the Global South, alternative ontologies and epistemologies of innovation. I would also be interested in PhD students pursuing research on the political economy of innovation, especially in relation to international and domestic power relations and sustainable development of socio-economic systems.
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01/10/2024 → 31/03/2025
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03/04/2023 → …
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Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Prize (including medals and awards)