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Suma Athreye

Name: Professor Suma Athreye Suma Athreye
Job Title: Professor
Email: suma.athreye@brunel.ac.uk
Office: EJ063
Phone: 65410
Direct Line: 01895 265410

Research Group:

Suma Athreye is Professor of International Strategy. Her research focuses on internationalisation and its impact on technology entrepreneurship. She has published several papers on the UK and Indian software sectors. A second strand of her research is focussed on the use of internationalisation by emerging market firms and the impact of technological and regulatory change on the development of businesses in emerging markets. She has won several grants for research which has also been recognised by national and international media.

In current research funded by the European Commission, she is studying the factors influencing direction of UK exports of R&D services and her receipts on account of the Licensing of intangible assets. Her research will also examine the impact of internationalisation of technology on the innovative capacity of UK firms. Read about this research

Research interests:

  • Growth of technology based firms
  • Internationalisation of technology based firms
  • Internationalisation of R&D and technology outsourcing by large firms
  • Trade and investment policies and the development of national technological capability

Teaching:

  • International Business (MBA)
  • International Business Economics
  • Technology Management and Policy

Selected Publications:

Policy briefs and reports

" The Internationalisation of Chinese and Indian firms: trends, motivations and strategy", United Nations University Policy Brief, April 2009.

Opening to the world: International cooperation in Science and Technology. Report of the ERA expert group. European Commission (2008).

Papers in Journals

"Experimentation with strategy in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector" (with Dinar Kale, Open University, UK). Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 18 (4), 2009.

"Internationalisation and technological leapfrogging in the Pharmaceutical industry", (with Andrew Godley, University of Reading, UK). Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 18 (2), 2009: 295-323.

"Introduction: the internationalisation of Chinese and Indian firms- trends, motivations and strategy" ( with Sandeep Kapur, Birkbeck College). Special issue of Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 18 (2) , 2009: 209-221.

"Industry Associations and technology based growth in India" (with Sachin Chaturvedi, Research and Information Systems, Delhi), European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 19(1) 2007: 156-173.

"Creating Competition? Globalisation and the emergence of new technology producers" (with John Cantwell, Rutgers Business School, Newark, USA), Research Policy, Vol. 36(2), 2007: 209-226.

"Industrial concentration in a liberalising economy: a case-study of Indian manufacturing", Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 42 (6), 2006 : 981-999. {with Sandeep Kapur, Birkbeck College}

"The Indian Software industry and its evolving service capability"; Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 14(3), 2005: 393-418.

"The Indian software industry" in Arora, A. and A. Gambardella (Eds.) From Underdogs to Tigers: The Rise and Growth of the Software Industry in Brazil, China, India, Ireland, and Israel. Oxford University Press, February 2005, pages 7-40.

"Role of transnational corporations in the evolution of a high-tech industry: the case of India’s software industry"- A comment, World Development, 2004, Vol. 32(3): 555-560.

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