Professor Nuran Acur
- Professor of Innovation Management (Management)
telephone: 0141 330 6367
email: Nuran.Acur@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
Nuran is currently Professor of Innovation Management in the Adam Smith Business School. Nuran previously worked at Strathclyde University (UK), Ozyegin University (Turkey), Aalborg University (Denmark), and Bilkent University (Turkey). Nuran has also held Visiting Scholar positions at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), at the London Business School (UK) and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland).
Nuran has published award winning, theory-driven, policy - and practice - relevant articles across the fields of technology innovation, open innovation, digital innovation and innovation strategy. Exploring aspects of technological, open business collaborative models at organizations, Nuran pursues a mainly curiosity driven, yet theoretically rigorous, empirically grounded and practice-relevant, research agenda. She has published more than 60 articles and papers, edited numerous books and publications and has won several awards such as ‘Most Inspirational Conference Paper Award’ and ‘3rd Best Conference Paper Award’ by European Academy of Management Conference (2016), BAM conference Best Development Paper Award’ (2015), EmeraldLiteratiNetwork, Highly Commended Paper Award (2005), EurOMA-POMS Best Conference Paper Award (2003). She is on the editorial Boards of two respected academic journals in innovation research (Journal of Product Innovation Management and Creativity and Innovation Management). Maintaining a consistently upward trajectory of funded research projects, she has secured more than £ 2 million of research funding from: European Space Agency, Britsih Council, Global Challenge Research Found, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), ESRC, Innovate UK, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and Scottish Enterprise. Nuran is also a sought after speaker for academic conferences and practitioners’ events. Just as importantly, she has established extensive international networks with British, European and American scientists, business people and policy makers.
Research interests
Nuran is a member of the Services and Operations Management research cluster.
Her research areas of interest include open innovation, digitalisation, innovation ecosystem development, social innovation and impact.
Areas of expertise:
- Open innovation
- Business model innovation
- Innovation Ecosystem
- Digital innovation
- Social innovation
Grants
- £85,000: British Council, Newton Instutional Link (January 2019-January 2020), PI, 'Targeting non-communicable diseases through Interactive Health Ecosystems in Indonesia (TANDEM)'.
- £50,140: SFI -Global Challenge Research Found (October 2017-July 2018), PI, Collaborative Digital Innovation for Growth and Inclusiveness (CODIGIN),Project Code: 302342-01.
- £34,682.40: Scottish Enterprise Bid 150274 (2015-2017), CI, " Open Innovation Programme: Monitoring and Evaluation Framework’"
- £8,000: EPSR Encompass (2014), CI, 'New Markets for Touch Activated Surfaces’
- £5,000: Scottish Enterprise Innovation Vouchers (2014), PI, 'Open Innovation Facilitation in Anatomical Concept
- £450,000: EPSRC Grant (2011-2015), CI, ‘Distributing industrial optimization tasks to rural workers- Rural Area workers creativity’
- £50,000: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) (Sep 2011-Dec 2012), PI, ‘Corporate entrepreneurship, institutional environment and entrepreneurial performance in emerging economies’
- £61,723: Innovate UK, KTP (October 2010-September 2012), PI, with City Park Technology Centre Limited
- €4500: RADMA (2005-2007) PI, ‘Patterns in NPD project, Turkey
Supervision
Current PhD students
Carlos Carbajal
Topic:Organizing Digital Innovation in Industry 4.0
Co-Advisor: Dr. Alison Smart
Elem Miranda Ramirez
Topic: The Transition from Digital Start Ups into Scale Ups
Second Advisor: Prof. Robbie Paton
Daniela Petrovic (Part-time)
Topic: A relational view on innovation ecosystems: understanding the relationships between and positioning of ecosystem actors for value creation
Second Advisors: Dr. Stephan Von Delft & Prof. Robbie Paton
Pierric Appert
Topic: An Exploratory Study of the Strategic Principles for Innovation in the Digital Age: Harnessing the Power of Open Innovation Ecosystems
Co-Advisor: Dr. Stephan Von Delft
Kamolwan Sahakitpinyo
Topic:Business model evolution in entrepreneurial ecosystemS
Co-Advisor: Dr. Stephan Von Delft
Completed PhD students
Faridah Mustaffa Bakry
Topic: Management Innovation, Radical Innovation and Business Performance: The Role of Knowledge Resources for High Technology SMEs, 2014
Khalid Alkualik
Topic: Impact of Network Relational and Structural Embeddedness on Firm’s Innovation: A Study at the Saudi Firm’s Level, 2017
Robert Anderson
Topic: Dialogues for Open Business Model Innovation in SMEs, 2017
Arie R. Wardhani
Topic: The Role of Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Orientation in Innovation Capability, 2018
Siska Noviaristanti
Topic: The Orchestration Role of Innovation Intermediary: A Case of Corporate Accelerator Programme, 2018
Teaching
- Creativity and innovation management
- Social innovation
- Strategic technology management
- Business Development and Global Innovation
Professional activities & recognition
Editorial boards
- 2015 - -: Creativity and Innovation Management Journal
- 2015 - -: Journal of Product Innovation Management
Professional & learned societies
- 2019 - -: Board Member, Innovation and Product Development Conference
- 2015 - 2018: Scientific Committee Member, Innovation and Product Development Conference
Additional information
Honours and awards
- EURAM Conference ‘Award for Most Inspirational Conference Paper’' (June, 2016 among 1200 papers), ‘The impact of fairness on the performance of crowdsourcing: an empirical analysis of two intermediate crowdsourcing platforms’ together with Mazzola E, Piazza M. and Perrone G.
- EURAM conference 3 rd Best Paper Award (June 2016) in Innovation Special Interest Group, ‘The impact of fairness on the performance of crowdsourcing: an empirical analysis of two intermediate crowdsourcing platforms’, together with Mazzola E, Piazza M. and Perrone G.
- BAM conference Best Development Paper Award (2015) in Performance Measurement Special Interest Group, ‘The multidimensional innovation capability: The definition and framework based on knowledge management perspective’, UK, together with Wardhani A. and Mendibil K.
- EmeraldLiteratiNetwork, Highly Commended Paper Award, Laugen B-T, Acur N., Boer H. (2005), “Best manufacturing practices –what do the Best performing companies do?” International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 131-150 (ABS 4*)
- EurOMA-POMS Best Conference Paper Award,. (2003), “Manufacturing Strategy Configurations: Stability and Trends of Change”, together with Cagliano R.n and Boer H One Word? One View if OM?, Como, Italy.
- Best Conference Presentation Award, Acur N. and Bititci U. (2001), “PROPHESY: Strategy Management Process”, IFIP 5.7.Working Group Conference on Strategic Manufacturing, Aalborg, Denmark
- Strathclyde University final year PhD Award, 2001
Invited presentations
- Keynote speaker: Talk entitled, 'Meet the editor session' in 21 st Innovation and Product Development Management Conference (IPDM) 2014, presented Creativity and Innovation Management Journal, June, Limerick, Ireland
- Keynote speaker: Talk entitled, 'Meet the editor session' in 21 st Innovation and Product Development Management Conference (IPDM) 2014, presented Creativity and Innovation Management Journal, June, Limerick, Ireland
- Keynote speaker: Talk entitled, ‘How To Publish Your Research in Top Journal' in IPDM 2014 Conference, Doctoral Seminar, 15 June.
- Keynote speaker: Talk entitled, Business Model Innovation and Crowdsourcing’ in 22nd AiIG Summer School in Management Engineering, Italy, September 2014.
- Keynote speaker: Talk entitled, ‘Open innovation and Crowdsourcing’ in Open Innovation Conference at Gazi University, November 2014, Ankara, Turkey
- Keynote speaker: Talk entitled, 'Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing' in Automotive Industry Association annual event in Turkey (450 participants, including government people, automotive industry managers/workers, academics and students)
- Speaker: Talk entitles, 'Service Innovation' in Trinity College, April, 2014
Academic services
Conference co-chair
- 23 rd Innovation and Product Development Conference, 2016, Strathclyde University, with Prof. Susan Hart
- 14th International Annual EurOMA Conference, Managing Operations in an Expanding Europe, Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey, June 17-20, 2007 with with Prof. Erhan Erkut, Prof.. Nesim Erkip
Member of editorial board (2012-present)
- Journal of Product Innovation Management
- Creativity and Innovation Management
Member of conference board
- IPDM- Innovation and Product Development Management (2019- current)
- EuROMA- European Operations Management Association (2007-2012)
Member
- National Innovation Strategy 2023 Development Committee (September 2014, February 2016), Turkey
- Scientific Committee Member of EuROMA- European Operations Management Association, (2006 - current)
- Scientific Committee Member of Innovation and Product Development Conference, (2015 - current)
Special issue editor
- Creativity and Innovation Management, September 2015, 2016
- International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 29, No.9., 2009, with Prof. Chris Voss
- Proceedings of the 14th International Annual EurOMA Conference, Managing Operations in an Expanding Europe (2007), with Erkip, N., and Güneş, E.D.
Reviewer (2006 - present)
- MIS Quarterly
- MIT Sloan Management Review
- Journal of Management Studies
- British Journal of Management
- Journal of Service Research
- Journal of Management Studies
- Journal of Business Research
- Journal of Product Innovation Management Journal
- International Journal of Management Reviews
- European Management Review
- International Journal of Operations & Production Management
- International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management
- Creativity and Innovation Management
- Journal of Production, Planning and Control
- International Journal of Production Economics
Conference paper reviews
- European Operations Management Conference, 2005- present
- British Academy of Management Conference, Innovation Track, 2013-present
- AoM conference, Technology and Innovation Division, 2011- present
- PICMet (Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology Conference, 2008
Textbook reviews
- A sixth edition of Malhotra and Birks, Marketing Research: An Applied Approach, M Pearson Education, November 2003
- A first edition of Sara Beckman and Donald Rosenfield, Operating Leadership: Competing in New Economy, McGraw Hill, September 2003
- A first proposal of Kate Blackmon, Theory of Operations Management” , McGraw Hill, February 2004
Special track organiser/chair
- Crowdsourcing and Open Innovation' in EuROMA conference, June 2014, Palermo, Italy
- ‘Open Innovation’, 13 th European Academy of Management Conference, 26-29 June, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey
Conference session chair
- "Innovation, Product and Service Development", European Academy of Management Conference, July, 2017.
- "Open Innovation" in Innovation Product Development Conference, June 2017.
- “Open Innovation, Technology And Monitoring’, 13 th European Academy of Management Conference, 26-29 June, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.
- “Corporate Governance And Strategic Choices’, 13 th European Academy of Management Conference, 26-29 June, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey.
- “Operations Strategy” , 17 th International Annual EuROMA Conference, Managing Economies in Service in Service Economies, June 6-9, 2010, Porto, Portugal
- “Open Innovation- PD in Communities & in Coorperation with Communities” , 16th International Product Development Management Conference, June 8-9, 2009, Netherlands
- “Innovation Management” at the 16 th International Annual EuROMA Conference, June 14-17, 2009, Goteborg, Sweden.
- “Operations Strategy”, 13 th International Annual EuROMA Conference, "Moving up the Value Chain", June 18-21 June, 2006, Glasgow, UK
- “New Product Development and R&D Management” 5t International CINet Conference Continuous Innovation: Strategic Priorities for the Global Knowledge Economy, 22-25 September, 2004, Sydney, Australia
- “Organising for Product Development”, 11th International Product Development Management Conference, June 20-22, 2004, Dublin, Ireland
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