Professor

Bio

Brendan Galbraith is a Professor in Entrepreneurship and Chair of the Marketing and Entrepreneurship Department – covering both Abu Dhabi and Dubai campuses. He previously held management positions in the United States and Ireland and was a faculty member at Ulster University for over a decade prior to arriving in the UAE. Prof. Galbraith is an editorial board member at Technology Analysis and Strategic Management Journal, IEEE Transactions Engineering Management.

He was a visiting scholar at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at University of California, Berkeley and he undertook faculty training on the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship. He initiated ZU’s membership and served as the lead contact for Harvard Business School’s Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) Affiliate Network and received faculty training on MOC and Creating Shared Value curriculum as well as the Harvard Case Study Method. He has served as a visiting professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University and as a guest lecturer at Portland State University. He served as Vice-President (TACs and Education) at IEEE Technology Engineering Management Society and is a two-term executive board member.

His research has appeared in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Technovation, R&D Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Production Planning and Control, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence and the International Journal of Production Research. He has co-authored and co-edited two books in Social Innovation and Innovation Intermediaries and more recently was a review author for a new textbook in Digital Entrepreneurship. Prof. Galbraith has led the development and exploitation of several prestigious innovation and research projects valued more than £5 million funded by the European Commission and ESRC and he has one software invention disclosure. His research has been presented in the European Parliament, European Commission, Committee de Regions, Northern Ireland Parliament and featured on BBC News. He has been the general chair of several international conferences: IEEE International Technology Management Conference, European Conference Innovation and Entrepreneurship and co-chair of European Conference for Knowledge Management and IEEE Global Conference on AI and IoT. He received the Belfast Ambassador Award by Belfast City Council and Visit Belfast and was an elected Board member of the European Network of Living Labs.

He has supervised and examined numerous PhD students in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands and Germany and served as an external examiner of undergraduate and postgraduate programs for universities in the UK and Ireland. He has previously served on a wide range of department and university-level administrative roles and strategic steering committees. He has been an external consultant to a range of software start-ups, manufacturing firms and served as a strategy consultant to universities in the UAE. He has been nominated for a range of teaching awards, research impact awards and service awards throughout his tenure in academia and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. At ZU, he is a member of the AACSB Accreditation Committee and in this role, he has undergone several AACSB training courses. At ZU he has previously served as the Chair of the Research Committee, Chair of Postgraduate Studies and Steering Committee member for the Zayed Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre.

Office

Abu Dhabi - Khalifa City, FF1-2-041

Phone:

971 2 599 3227

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Teaching Areas

Bachelor of Science courses offered in Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management and Family Business Management

Research and Professional Activities

Innovation management, absorptive capacity, university incubators and corporate accelerators, SME innovation, social innovation