Research (PhD) Programmes
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group (EIG) consists of a team of researchers
working in interdisciplinary fields. Based in the heart of Southend-on-Sea, a
seaside town of the Essex County, EIG has enjoyed a steady growth in terms of
research and teaching capacity and students bodies. EIG is now housing the
Centre for Entrepreneurship Research and the Marketing Research Group. There is
also a collective interest among colleagues in the areas of international
business and economics.
Please explore the broad interests of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group
from these lists. If you find one that fits your interest, you can view your
potential supervisors among the relevant group faculty before you write a
proposal for application. Alternatively you can browse individual faculty
member's research interest by clicking on 'People' in the left menu, then
selecting 'Academic staff' in the sub menu.
The Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (CER) is a well-established research
centre. It focuses on research and knowledge exchange activities in the areas of
entrepreneurship and innovation.
- New venture creation
- Small firm growth
- Innovation of SMEs
- Entrepreneurship and regional development
- Internationalisation of firms
- International entrepreneurship
- Social entrepreneurship
- Technology and entrepreneurship
Find a faculty in the Centre for
Entrepreneurship Research.
The Marketing Research Group specialises in business marketing strategy, new
product development, retails marketing and supply chain management.
- Business networks (B2B marketing, retailing)
- Innovation and new product development
- Multicultural marketing
- Relationship marketing
- Inter-firm relationship management
- Supply chain management
- HRM and ethnicity in marketing
- Operations management
- Consumer culture
- Brand building
Find a faculty in the Marketing
Research Group.
Research in international business and economics at Essex Business School is
interested in the role that innovation, agglomerations of human capital and
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) have in boosting firms' productivity.
- International business
- Technology outsourcing
- Applied Economics
- Innovation, productivity and human capital
- R&D spillovers and human capital
- TFP and human capital
- Gender and business finance
- Technical efficiency
- Organisational capital
- Corporate governance
Please browse the profiles of Vania
Sena and
Yong Yang in the first instance if
you are interested in the above areas.
For details on admission and scholarship opportunities, please visit the
EBS PhD main page.
Alternatively you can contact our PhD Administrator,
Mrs Juliet Sexton.
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