Jose Christian

Dr Christian's primary research interest focuses on emerging collaborative online innovation communities. His area of research includes digital innovation ecosystems, community governance, digital platform strategy, emergent ICT-based business models. Part of his research involves developing and applying novel data science techniques in the study of online innovation networks.

Jose has worked on and has co-authored research reports for various large European projects including CRE8TV, SPARK, and INSPIRE. For the CRE8TV project he identified barriers to value appropriation in digital market places. For the SPARK project he helped identify how to support social enterprises in their innovation activities. For the INSPIRE project, Jose co-developed a set of business innovation tools to support open innovation activities in European SMEs.

Jose supervises PhD students in the following areas: Open innovation, digital entrepreneurship, emerging digital technologies, open source innovation, online communities, and user innovation.

Jose has an interest to supervise PhD students focusing on alternative forms of digital innovation. Of particular interest are those that explore the evolution of digital technologies and their development and propagation through informal innovation group.

Jose is a member of the BSc (Hons) Team Enterprise and Innovation degree coaching team, set to start in 2020/2021. This new course, inspired by the Finnish Team Academy approach, is a  non-lecture-based experiential learning course suited to those who want an alternative to a traditional degree and are looking to develop and practice entrepreneurial skills.

Jose is a Module Leader for business and international strategy for final year under graduates and Master's students.