Prof Christos Kalantaridis
I am an economist by training with my undergraduate degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and postgraduate and doctoral awards from the University of Salford.
Before joining the University of Westminster in November 2023 I was Dean of the Guildhall School of Business and Law at London Metropolitan University, where I also served as Interim Pro Vice Chancellor Research and Knowledge Exchange. I have held full professorial positions at the Universities of Northampton, Teesside, Salford, Bradford, De Montfort and London Metropolitan University.
My early research adopted an (old) institutionalist lens in the study of entrepreneurship in rural areas and post-socialist countries. Subsequently I examined the interface between entrepreneurship and place (as more malleable), whilst my more recent research explores how university technology commercialisation is influenced by intellectual property rights regimes and unfolds through time. My latest paper was published in Technovation in 2023 and is entitled ‘Multi-dimensional time and university technology commercialisation as opportunity praxis: A realist synthesis of the accumulated literature’.