Prof Ross Brown
Professor
Biography
My main thematic areas of research are entrepreneurship, innovation and public policy. My career has included periods in industry, consultancy and over a decade in public policy. I have extensive experience of project managing and undertaking research for a range of research funders and clients. During this time I have undertaken and managed a number of major research projects for the Economic and Social Research Council, the Scottish Government, the Anglo-German Foundation, the OECD and the Institute for Chartered Accountants Scotland, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. I have also undertaken research and acted as an expert adviser to the European Commission, Northern Ireland government, Scottish Enterprise, Action Canada and the LEED programme within the OECD. This has resulted in widely cited OECD publications such as "Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Growth-Oriented Entrepreneurship."
Teaching
- MN5423 Global Business Strategy
- MN5425 Masterclasses in International Business
Research areas
My current research examines high growth entrepreneurship, funding for growth-oriented SMEs, innovation policy, employee ownership and public policy to support entrepreneurship both in developed and emerging market economies. This has resulted in an extensive range of publications in top journals such as the Journal of Economic Geography, Small Business Economics, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy & Society, Regional Studies, Environment and Planning C: Government & Policy, British Journal of Industrial Relations and International Small Business Journal.
Selected publications
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Learning to ride the high growth “rollercoaster”: the role of publicly funded business accelerator programmes
Brown, R. C. & Rees-Jones, R., 19 Mar 2024, In: Small Business Economics. 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Trigger points and high growth firms: the vital role of founder “sensing” and “seizing” capabilities
Rees-Jones, R., Brown, R. C. & Evans-Jones, D., 3 Jan 2024, In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research. 30, 1, p. 1-22 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs
Cowling, M., Brown, R. C., Liu, W. & Rocha, A., 19 Oct 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Advance Articles, 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Places are not like people: the perils of anthropomorphism within entrepreneurial ecosystems research
Brown, R., Mawson, S. & Rocha, A., 1 Feb 2023, In: Regional Studies. 57, 2, p. 384-396 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Innovation and borrower discouragement in SMEs
Brown, R. C., Linares Zegarra, J. M. & Wilson, J. O. S., 11 Jan 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Small Business Economics. First Online, 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reprint of "Capturing conversations in entrepreneurial ecosystems"
Rocha, A., Brown, R. & Mawson, S., 30 Nov 2022, In: Research Policy. 51, 9, 14 p., 104666.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Capturing conversations in entrepreneurial ecosystems
Rocha, A., Brown, R. C. & Mawson, S., 1 Nov 2021, In: Research Policy. 50, 9, 14 p., 104317.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The geographical impact of the Covid-19 crisis for pre-cautionary savings, firm survival and jobs: evidence from the UK’s 100 largest towns and cities
Brown, R. C. & Cowling, M., 28 Jan 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Small Business Journal. OnlineFirst, 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The geography of business angel investments in the UK: does local bias (still) matter?
Cowling, M., Brown, R. & Lee, N., 20 Jan 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Environment and Planning A. Online First, 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chinese start-ups are being starved of venture capital – with worrying omens for the west
Brown, R. & Rocha, A., 24 Apr 2020, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article