Personal statement
Dr Samuel Mwaura is lecturer of entrepreneurship at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde Business School. His main research interest is on the links between entrepreneurship, individual and household wellbeing, and the wider socio-economic context. Samuel is also very passionate about knowledge exchange and societal impact from his research.
Samuel’s recent work has focused on entrepreneurial ecosystems, entrepreneurial participataion rates and performance especially amongst ethnic minorities, migrants and women and in the regions, SME financing, innovation and its impact on productivity, the link between entrepreneurship and household wellbeing (including household wealth), and entrepreneurship and firm performance in developing country contexts.
Besides contributing to the academic discourse through international conferences and publications, Samuel’s research has been disseminated to various enterprise practitioners, policy-makers and the general public in the UK and beyond through consultancy reports, practioner talks and workshops, policy hackathons, mass media and social media.
Teaching
I have experience teaching at all undergraduate levels as well as taught post-graduates programmes and executive education. Teaching areas include:
- Enterprise finance
- New venture creation
- Small business management
- Innovation management
- Entrepreneurial leadership
- Entrepreneurship and innovation policy
Research interests
I welcome opportunies for research collaboration and PhD supervision in the following broad areas that I have both qualitative and quantitative methodological expertise in:
- Enterprise/ SME Finance
- Inclusive Entrepreneurship (Diversity, minority, women's entrepreneurship)
- Innovation
- SME performance/ growth
- Link between entrepreneurship and households
- Entrepreneurial ecosystems
- SME Clusters and local/ regional economic development policy
- Entrepreneurship in developing country contexts
Professional activities
- FDI/ trade policy roundtable
- Participant
- 11/2022
- Understanding Scotland: public perceptions of the economy
- Speaker
- 30/8/2022
- Youth enterprise and university ecosystems
- Speaker
- 6/2022
- When all else is not equal: gender, ethnicity and the journey to loan financing
- Speaker
- 4/2022
- How Scotland can encourage more diversity in entrepreneurs
- Speaker
- 21/10/2021
- Young Migrant Entrepreneurs Multiplier Event
- Speaker
- 22/4/2021
More professional activities
Projects
- Coronavirus and the financing of ethnic minority entrepreneurship in the UK - RSE Covid Research Reboot
- Mwaura, Samuel (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2021
- Current Barriers to Business Growth in the South of Scotland
- Mwaura, Samuel (Principal Investigator)
- 22-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021
- Barriers to business growth in the South of Scotland
- Levie, Jonathan (Principal Investigator) Mwaura, Samuel (Co-investigator) Sahasranamam, Sreevas (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2019
- Migrant Entrepreneurship in Scotland
- Mwaura, Samuel (Principal Investigator) Drakopoulou Dodd, Sarah (Co-investigator) Lassalle, Paul (Co-investigator) Levie, Jonathan (Co-investigator) Stoyanov, Stoyan (Co-investigator)
- 27-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2018
- CDT Entrepreneurship & Innovation (SE)
- Mwaura, Samuel (Principal Investigator)
- 26-Jan-2018 - 26-Jan-2021
- Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ? Benchmark Research
- Levie, Jonathan (Principal Investigator) Mwaura, Samuel (Co-investigator) Sahasranamam, Sreevas (Co-investigator)
- 05-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2018
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Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship
Stenhouse Wing
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