​MEET PAURIC MCGOWAN
Professor Pauric McGowan holds the Chair for Entrepreneurship and Business Development in the Ulster Business School. He was involved in enterprise education at the University of Ulster and the development of small to medium sized businesses through his work with the Northern Ireland Small Business Institute, (NISBI). Between 2002 and May 2009 he was the Director of the Northern Ireland Centre for Entrepreneurship, (NICENT) based at the University of Ulster. He lectures in new venturing and business development and continues his research interests in the areas of technology entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship pedagogy.
​MEET PABLO D'ESTE
Pablo D’Este received his Degree in Economics and a Masters Degree in Applied Economics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and a PhD degree in 2003 from SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex.
He was a teaching assistant in Economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona from 1992 to 1998, a Research Fellow at SPRU from 2002 to 2008, and was supported by a UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship between 2004 to 2005. In 2006, he was appointed an Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) Research Fellow at Cranfield School of Management, and held a double appointment at Cranfield School of Management and SPRU, University of Sussex, between 2006 and 2008.
His research concerns industrial dynamics and innovation; dynamic capabilities and knowledge creation in firms; university-business interactions and their impact on academic and business performance; academic entrepreneurship; proximity and formation of research partnerships; and the sources of and barriers to innovation.