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- Qualifications:PhD, MSc, FHEA
- Position:Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Enterprise
- Department:Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) FBL - Business and Management
- Telephone:+441173281388
- Email:Christopher.Lipp@uwe.ac.uk
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About me
Research interests: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Learning
I am often asked what "innovation management" is. I see it as the investigation into "how good ideas come to be".
This stretches from the behavioural and psychological enablers and obstacles at the individual level, through group dynamics and knowledge sharing, to organisational and meta-organisational levels.
This is undeniably vast. My current focus is a constructively sceptical examination of the AI revolution. I am interested in how the use of GenAI tools simultaneously enables and diminishes our cognitive and creative abilities, depending on how they are used. My work focuses on how AI can enhance - rather than replace - human learning and critical thinking, whether in the classroom or within small or large organisations. For me, the common thread is the concept of individual agency: how people confidently retain ownsership over their thinking and decisions, when surrounded by increasingly capable systems.
My docotoral research took a critical realist approach to understanding early firm growth, leading to conceptualise growth as an interplay between operational optimisation and stakeholder valence - the current and future value ascribed by any stakeholder to any manifestation of a firm. This perspective emphasises a non-linear, socially constructed nature of growth and subtle forces or mechanisms that "pull" firms in particular directions.
If these ideas resonate with you, I warmly welcome interactions of any nature - whether informal conversations or collaborations around research projects and collaborations at doctoral or post-doctoral level.
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