Simone Corsi
Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation at Lancaster University Management School. He is Associate Director at the Centre for Global-Eco Innovation and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Innovation at Loughborough Business School and served as a manager at the University of Manchester China Institute and the Lancaster University China Catalyst Programme, where he advised more than 60 UK SMEs on their China strategy.
He obtained a Ph.D. in Management from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy) in 2012 and is a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Management there. His research lies at the intersection of innovation studies, political economy, and critical management scholarship, with a focus on global innovation from the Global South, reverse innovation, and asymmetric power relations in global innovation systems. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Product Innovation Management, British Journal of Management, and R&D Management, and he received the Thomas P. Hustad Best Paper Award.
Specialization
Reverse Innovation, Global Innovation from the Global South, University-Industry Collaboration, International Strategy, and the Political Economy of Innovation.
Main Themes Addressed in the Lecture
- University role in international R&D partnerships
- Lancaster China Catalyst Programme (UK-China SME collaboration)
- Triple Helix model: government, university, and industry
- Three-stage programme: Profile, Accelerate, Collaborate
- Overcoming SME challenges in China (resources, partners, IP)
- Unexpected benefits: university network, brand, and programme structure
- Universities as intermediaries for market access
- Reversed role: universities enable industry internationalization
- Staged support reduces failure risk
- Model applicable beyond UK-China context