Strathclyde Business School and our MSc Financial Technology students feature in “Innovation in Finance”, a series of videos launched this week by Innovate Finance and BBC StoryWorks. The films bring to life a selected set of individual technological revolutions taking place across the global financial sector. The four MSc students (Phineas Chiketsani, Zhenjia Yang, Julian Feser and Andrew Todd) can be seen discussing their experiences of studying at Strathclyde and in Glasgow, and offer some thoughts on how Fintech is transforming the way we interact with our money. You can find the video here https://www.innovatefinance.com/innovationinfinance/video/directid/
A paper by Management Science academics made it to the top of the most cited papers list in Human Relations: Igor Pyrko, Viktor Dörfler & Colin Eden (2017) Thinking Together: What Makes Communities of Practice Work?, Human Relations, 70(4): 389-409. In less than three years after publication, the paper has the following citation numbers: Google Scholar: 123, Crossref: 45, Scopus: 44, Web of Science: 43, ResearchGate: 67. It was also downloaded nearly 30,000 times from the publisher's website.
A new book, edited by Professor Tom Baum (WEO) and former WEO PhD student and researcher, Ann Ndiuini (now with Oxford Brookes University), has been published by Springer.
Entitled Sustainable Human Resource Management in Tourism: African Perspectives, the book is a collection of research papers, most of which were originally presented at a research seminar in Johannesburg, co-hosted by the University of Johannesburg, Moi University, Kenya and the University of Strathclyde and supported by the Newton Fund.
Strathclyde Entrepreneurial Network (SEN) activities are still very much up and running and are working hard to ensure their full programme of activities are still available to support University of Strathclyde innovators.
If you have a business idea during this time, please do not hesitate to get in touch with SEN. SEN supports Strathclyde students, staff and alumni (of all years), in developing and growing businesses. SEN has now transitioned training via online workshops – these are constantly updated on the SEN upcoming events page -https://www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathclyde/strathclydeentrepreneurialnetwork/eventsactivities/upcomingevents/
Meanwhile, here is some news from SEN featuring Strathclyde Business School graduates and students:
Revive Eco - founded by SEN Ambassadors and Strathclyde Business School graduates Fergus Moore and Scott Kennedy - were part of the Scotsman’s list of top 10 firms at the forefront of recycle, reuse, reduce drive revolution. University of Strathclyde Spin out Cuantec were also in this list - https://www.scotsman.com/business/10-best-firms-forefront-recycle-reuse-reduce-drive-revolution-2519035?fbclid=IwAR1v7Pgh_iZDzhFhvbDoOy6lGHUfJUkiptRbA88hOoqtjf4N0Nn1tikyT9Q
Five University of Strathclyde and SEN supported students were amongst the winners in the Scottish Institute for Enterprise Fresh Ideas competition. Noted amongst these were Strathclyde Business School students - https://www.insider.co.uk/news/bagpipe-device-disaster-zone-stove-21752940?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar&fbclid=IwAR2-RQ3WjqEdjFHZiJNJwSqE0S9uggaKEbAiZS9dZhYlzaBXoK2-qzsD-zk
Na Bràithrean - “The Brothers” in Gaelic - is an independent bottler of single cask, single malt, Scotch Whisky. Founded by two MBA graduates, the company release their bottles as brother malts, originating from the same mother cask. The end product is two bottles of the same spirit with different personalities and characteristics. They were recently successful in obtaining grant funding through SEN’s Strathclyders into Business fund. Their company page is: https://www.nabraithrean.com/
Ioanna Nixon, an oncologist at the Beatson Cancer Centre and a visiting professor at Strathclyde Business School, has written a book with the help of her son George (9) to help children with their worries around coronavirus, or Covid19.
The book is called “Jack the Rabbit is scared of coronavirus” and was written rapidly to help allay children’s fears over the virus sweeping the globe. It has been translated into seven languages including French, German, Greek, Serbian and Hindi.
It is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B087PH6VPK
A paper co-written by Daniel Broby of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Innovation (CeFRI) at Strathclyde Business School has been awarded second prize in the Tezos Gold Challenge, Future of Blockchain Univdersity Competition.
He co-wrote the paper with Andrea Bracciali of Stirling University and Siham Lamssaoui of Ibn Tofail University, Morocco.
Future of Blockchain is a long-form competition to build a blockchain project over three months, attracting students, researchers, alumni and leading developers. Over 20 universities took part, with 143 teams starting the competition. Participants had to build a dAPP, build tools for Tezos and contribute to the Tezos codebase.
Daniel’s team won second place for their paper and dAPP for a decentralised property marketplace, “dAirBnB:experiments on decentralised applications for the sharing economy” and were awarded 4000 Tez (representing GBP 8.960)
For more information click here: https://medium.com/@anthony_88211/future-of-blockchain-2-tezos-winners-b055fceb5933
Dr Amin Nazifi (Department of Marketing) and his colleagues have had their paper titled: “Stepping Out of the Shadows: Supporting Actors’ Strategies for Managing End-user Experiences in Service Ecosystems” accepted for publication in Journal of Business Research (ABS 3).
Dr Viktor Dörfler of Management Science delivered a talk 'AI & the Human Mind: Exploring Synergies' at the conference 'The Digital World: AI' organised by BSI in London, on February 27. This was the 20th talk Viktor has delivered on AI topics in the last 30 months. The video recording of the talk is available here: https://youtu.be/RkQd1Gjo8Qo