Brychan Celfyn Thomas is a Visiting Professor in Innovation Policy at the University of South Wales, a Doctoral Supervisor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Gloucestershire, and an Examiner for the International Baccalaureate Business and Management Diploma. He has a Science degree and an MSc in the Social Aspects of Science and Technology from Aston University and a PhD in Science and Technology Policy, CNAA, London. Before retiring in October 2012, he was Reader in Innovation Policy at the University of Glamorgan Business School. He has over 400 publications in the areas of science communication, entrepreneurship, innovation and small business - including 140 refereed journal articles and 141 refereed conference papers. His books include 'Triple Entrepreneurial Connection: College, Government and Industry' (2000), 'E-Commerce Adoption and Small Business in the Global Marketplace: Tools for Optimization' (2010, co-editor), 'Innovation and Small Business', Volumes 1 and 2 (2011, co-editor), author of 'Technology-Based Entrepreneurship' (2013), co-editor of 'Academic Working Lives: Experience, Practice and Change' (hardback 2014, paperback 2015), co-editor of Financial Entrepreneurship for Economic Growth in Emerging Nations (2018), and co-editor of ‘Exploring Consensual Leadership in Higher Education through Co-operation, Collaboration and Partnership’ (2018). He is currently co-leader of the Leadership, Innovation, Management and Entrepreneurship (LIME) Research Group based in South Wales and is a Fellow of the College of Teaching and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has successfully supervised 9 PhDs and 2 DBAs in the areas of innovation and small and medium-sized enterprises.
Lyndon Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He has industry experience of operational and strategic management roles in small business. At the University he teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, specialising in Strategic Management, Innovation Management, and the role played by social and network capital in organisations' activities. Lyndon also has experience of leading both curriculum development and research projects. He is particularly interested in the development and delivery of organisation based leadership development and innovation management programmes. Lyndon is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Manager of the Chartered Management Institute. He has a BSc in Economics from Aberystwyth University and a PhD by thesis from the University of Glamorgan. The focus of his research concerns the incidence and forms of innovation and social capital existing at regional economic development/regeneration programmes. He has worked with the Welsh Government Broadband Observatory project writing case studies focusing on business use of broadband. Lyndon has also worked with organisations in the private, public and third sectors exploring the incidence of social capital and its relationship with innovative activity. This has involved working with senior management teams to enhance innovation management practices. He is currently working on a pan-Wales project exploring the role of social capital in the development of innovative activity in public sector sponsored economic development programmes. Lyndon has published on a range of social capital and innovation related issues, including regional policy (Environment and Planning C), local economic development (Regional Studies, Regional Science), public policy (Economic and Industrial Democracy), and business performance (International Journal of Law and Management).