Dr Christos Kolympiris
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Technology Innovation Management, Economics and Management of Knowledge, Science and Technology, High-Tech Entrepreneurship, Economic Geography
Teaching in 2020-2021
Distance Learning MBA
- IB829P: Innovation and Creativity in Organisations
MSc Business
- IB9CVB: Leading for Innovation
Postgraduate Research Business and Management
- IB9HH0: Behavioural Research in Decision Making and Entrepreneurship
Undergraduate
- IB2680: Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Email: Christos.Kolympiris@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 72624 / Room: 3.230
Biography
Christos is Associate Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Warwick Business School (WBS). Funded by the Kauffman Foundation, he received his PhD in Applied Economics at the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2010. Before joining WBS he was at the faculty at the University of Bath School of Management.
His work is at the intersection of technology innovation management, entrepreneurship, economics of science and economic geography. He is pursuing two core lines of research. The first looks at the institution of science analyzing, among others, careers of scientists with a focus on research fund acquisition, the distribution of research funding, university-based innovation, location choice of academic entrepreneurs, academic mentoring, university incubators, technology transfer from academia to industry and the effects of academic science on industrial innovation. The second revolves around decision making in entrepreneurial finance and addresses issues such as the geographic distribution of venture capital investments and how geography and different forms of intellectual property protection shape information asymmetries between providers of entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurs.
Christos' research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, has won awards such as the 2017 DRUID conference best paper and has appeared in several journals, including Review of Economics and Statistics, Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Industrial and Corporate Change.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Hoenen, S. and Kolympiris, C. (2020) "The value of insiders as mentors : evidence from the effects of NSF rotators on early career scientists ", Review of Economics and Statistics, 102, 5, 852-866
- Kolympiris, C., Hoenen, S. and Klein, P. G. (2019) "Learning by seconding : evidence from NSF rotators", Organization Science, 30, 3, 528-551
- Kolympiris, C., Hoenen, S. and Kalaitzandonakes, N. (2018) "Geographic distance between venture capitalists and target firms and the value of quality signals", Industrial and Corporate Change, 27, 1, 189-220
- Zahringer, K., Kolympiris, C. and Kalaitzandonakes, N. (2017) "Academic knowledge quality differentials and the quality of firm innovation", Industrial and Corporate Change, 26, 5, 821-841
- Kolympiris, C. and Klein, P. G. (2017) "The effects of academic incubators on university innovation", Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 11, 2, 145-170
- Kolympiris, C., Kalaitzandonakes, N. and Miller, D. (2015) "Location choice of academic entrepreneurs : evidence from the US biotechnology industry", Journal of Business Venturing, 30, 2, 227-254
- Materia, V. C., Pascucci, S. and Kolympiris, C. (2015) "Understanding the selection processes of public research projects in agriculture : the role of scientific merit", Food Policy, 56, 87-99
- Hoenen, S., Kolympiris, C., Schoenmakers, W. and Kalaitzandonakes, N. (2014) "The diminishing signaling value of patents between early rounds of venture capital financing", Research Policy, 43, 6, 956-989
- Kolympiris, C., Kalaitzandonakes, N. and Miller, D. (2014) "Public funds and local biotechnology firm creation", Research Policy, 43, 1, 121-137
- Kolympiris, C. and Kalaitzandonakes, N. (2013) "Geographic scope of proximity effects among small life sciences firms", Small Business Economics, 40, 4, 1059-1086
- Kolympiris, C., Kalaitzandonakes, N. and Miller, D. (2011) "Spatial collocation and venture capital in the US biotechnology industry", Research Policy, 40, 9, 1188-1199
Dataset
- Hoenen, S. and Kolympiris, C. (2019) "Data for The value of insiders as mentors : evidence from the effects of NSF rotators on early career scientists"
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