Department of Business and Management

Postgraduate research

The Department of Business and Management offers a dynamic environment for doctoral research that benefits from both our strong international network of visiting faculty and our interdisciplinary research links within the School of Business, Management and Economics. Our current research students include:

Min-Hua Tsai

Min Hua's research focuses on organising the socio-economic relevance of public research in the case of nanotechnology. Her research interests include interactions between academics, industry and government, bibliometric analysis, and research evaluation.

Supervisors

Nick Mercer

Nick's research examines entrepreneurial academics who commercialise their research through the formation of university spin-offs, and the subsequent performance of those companies.

Supervisors

SeongWoong Hwang

SeongWoong works on knowledge generation and utilisation in the biotechnology based industry, focusing on Korea as an example of a latecomer country. His research interests include innovation in biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry, knowledge strategy in science-based companies, interdisciplinary research and technological integration, patent and bibliometric analysis.

Supervisors

Doctoral study

For information on PhD study within Business and Management, please contact our Research and Enterprise Co-ordinator, Janet French:

E J.French@sussex.ac.uk
T +44 (0)1273 678169 (ext. 8169)
F +44 (0)1273 685865