Joined higher education in 1991; Lecturer & Course Leader at Napier University (5 years); Head of Department & School (Bell College of Technology (4 years); Senior Lecturer & Director of UG Programmes (23 UG programmes), at Glasgow Caledonian University (10 years); Senior Lecturer & Director of Teaching and Learning (18 UG and 19 PG programmes) University of Sussex, (BMEc); ex Deputy Director (Education and Professional Practice) Kent Business School, University of Kent for three years and for two years Director of University of Dundee School of Business; Pioneered several learning innovations (Consultancy Teaching, Flipped Learning, Authentic Based Assessment, graduate attributes, first cyber master’s degree in IT and Feed Forward); Extensive external examining & Professional Body Accreditation, Quality Assurance Work with the QAAHE subject reviewer, institutional reviews and ACCSB experience; Work has been showcased by the QAAHE and NUS in Business and Management; Key research grant experience – KICKSTART II (€1.1M with Professor David Edgar) – teaching innovation in Latin America; Cabinet Office on E-Health (£80k); SSE (£50k) - Green IT.
Triple Helix (industry, government and university interactions)
Emergent Technologies and Innovation
Member of the National (UK) Steering Group on Learning, Teaching and the Student Experience, Chartered Association of Business Schools.
The LTSE Committee comprises mainly of directors of learning and teaching in member business schools. Its role is to support policy formulation and professional development in the areas of teaching, learning, assessment, quality assurance, student employability and student loans.
Vice Chair Scottish Deans Group Chartered Association of Business Schools.
The committee brings together Scottish business schools and explores the opportunities and difficulties faced in being a business school in a devolved nation.
Non Executive Director
Fellow British Computer Society
BCS has over 70,000 members in 150 countries, and a wider community of business leaders, educators, practitioners and policy-makers all committed to our mission. A charity with a royal charter, our agenda is to lead the IT industry through its ethical challenges, to support the people who work in the industry, and to make IT good for society.
Chartered IT Professional
Triple Helix and Technological Innovation
Invitation from the Management Committee of Shanxi Transition and Comprehensive Reform Demonstration Zone of China
Article
Grant K, Matousek R, Meyer M & Tzeremes NG (2020) Research and development spending and technical efficiency: evidence from biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector. International Journal of Production Research, 58 (20), pp. 6170-6184. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2019.1671623
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Meyer M, Kuusisto J, Grant K, De Silva M, Flowers S & Choksy U (2019) Towards new Triple Helix organisations? A comparative study of competence centres as knowledge, consensus and innovation spaces. R and D Management, 49 (4), pp. 555-573. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12342
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Universities, User-Driven Competence Centres And Intellectual Property
Meyer M, Debackere K, Grant K, Kuusisto J, Kume O & Yu T (2019) Universities, User-Driven Competence Centres And Intellectual Property. les Nouvelles, LIV (2), pp. 112-120. https://lesi.org/les-nouvelles/about-les-nouvelles
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Degl'Innocenti M, Grant K, Šević A & Tzeremes NG (2018) Financial stability, competitiveness and banks’ innovation capacity: Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis. International Review of Financial Analysis, 59, pp. 35-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.07.009
Book Chapter
The triple helix and user-driven centers of competence: Towards a new organizational model?
Meyer M, Grant K & Kuusisto J (2018) The triple helix and user-driven centers of competence: Towards a new organizational model?. In: Siegel D (ed.) World Scientific Reference on Innovation. London: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 113-128. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813149045_0007
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A research note on multinationality and firm performance: Nonparametric frontier analysis
Grant K, Mateousek R, Meyer M & Tzeremes NG (2017) A research note on multinationality and firm performance: Nonparametric frontier analysis. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 37 (10), pp. 1408-1424. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOPM-04-2015-0229
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National Hockey League guaranteed contracts: A principal agent problem impacting on performance
Landry J, Edgar D, Harris J & Grant K (2015) National Hockey League guaranteed contracts: A principal agent problem impacting on performance. Management Research Review, 38 (12), pp. 1306-1330. https://doi.org/10.1108/MRR-06-2014-0146
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Grant K, Hackney R & Edgar D (2014) Postgraduate research supervision: An 'agreed' conceptual view of good practice through derived metaphors. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 9, pp. 43-60. https://doi.org/10.28945/1952
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Can processes make relationships work? The Triple Helix between structure and action
Grant K, Meyer M & Kuusisto J (2014) Can processes make relationships work? The Triple Helix between structure and action. Prometheus, 32 (4), pp. 351-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/08109028.2015.1110425
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Triple Helix indicators as an emergent area of enquiry: A bibliometric perspective
Meyer M, Grant K, Morlacchi P & Weckowska D (2014) Triple Helix indicators as an emergent area of enquiry: A bibliometric perspective. Scientometrics, 99 (1), pp. 151-174. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-013-1103-8
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'Risky business': Perceptions of e-business risk by UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
Grant K, Edgar D, Sukumar A & Meyer M (2014) 'Risky business': Perceptions of e-business risk by UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). International Journal of Information Management, 34 (2), pp. 99-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2013.11.001
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Origin and emergence of entrepreneurship as a research field
Meyer M, Libaers D, Thijs B, Grant K, Glänzel W & Debackere K (2014) Origin and emergence of entrepreneurship as a research field. Scientometrics, 98 (1), pp. 473-485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-013-1021-9
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Grant K, Alefantos T, Meyer M & Edgar D (2013) Capturing and measuring technology based service innovation - A case analysis within theory and practice. International Journal of Information Management, 33 (5), pp. 899-905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2013.07.002
Book Chapter
The second coming of the triple helix and the emergence of hybrid innovation environments
Meyer M, Grant K & Kuusisto J (2012) The second coming of the triple helix and the emergence of hybrid innovation environments. In: Capello R, Olechnicka A & Gorzelak G (eds.) Universities, Cities and Regions: Loci for Knowledge and Innovation Creation. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp. 193-207. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203097144
Article
Riffai MMMA, Grant K & Edgar D (2012) Big TAM in Oman: Exploring the promise of on-line banking, its adoption by customers and the challenges of banking in Oman. International Journal of Information Management, 32 (3), pp. 239-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2011.11.007
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An investigation of e-business risks in UK SMEs
Sukumar A, Edgar D & Grant K (2011) An investigation of e-business risks in UK SMEs. World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 7 (4), pp. 380-401. https://doi.org/10.1504/WREMSD.2011.042892
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Grant K, Hackney R & Edgar D (2010) Informing UK Information Management pedagogic practice: The nature of contemporary higher education culture. International Journal of Information Management, 30 (2), pp. 152-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2009.09.008
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Grant K & Wakelin SJ (2009) Re-conceptualising the concept of a nexus? A survey of 12 Scottish IS/IM academics' perceptions of a nexus between teaching, research, scholarship and consultancy. Teaching in Higher Education, 14 (2), pp. 133-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562510902757146
Conference Paper (unpublished)
'Academic Capitalism': Universities' consultancy agendas
Grant K, Spinelli G, Duncan P, Hackney R & Edgar D (2008) 'Academic Capitalism': Universities' consultancy agendas. 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2008), Toronto, 14.08.2008-17.08.2008.
Article
Yiu CS, Grant K & Edgar D (2007) Factors affecting the adoption of Internet Banking in Hong Kong - implications for the banking sector. International Journal of Information Management, 27 (5), pp. 336-351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2007.03.002
Article
The UK grocery business: Towards a sustainable model for virtual markets
Hackney R, Grant K & Birtwistle G (2006) The UK grocery business: Towards a sustainable model for virtual markets. International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, 34 (4/5), pp. 354-368. https://doi.org/10.1108/09590550610660279
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Grant K & Fitzgerald S (2005) The nexus between teaching and research: A qualitative study using two focus group on academic information systems teachers. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 3 (1), pp. 37-56. http://www.ejbrm.com/volume3/issue1
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Grant K & Edgar D (2003) Using the theory of policy networks and communities to explore who determines the Scottish higher education research policy: issues for educational managers. International Journal of Educational Management, 17 (7), pp. 318-329. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513540310500996
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Grant K (2003) Making sense of education change at Thistle College: the existence of witchcraft, witches and shamans. International Journal of Educational Management, 17 (2), pp. 71-83. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513540310460261
Emergent Technologies and Innovation
Research and Consultancy Methods