Research
Research within the Centre is currently organised around seven main areas or themes:
Complex Project Innovation and Collaboration
Work on the management of complex projects and collaboration is structured around the work of Dr Neil Alderman and Dr Tyrone Pitsis. Issues of prime interest to the group include innovation, knowledge management and design processes in complex project settings.
eBusiness@Newcastle
Led by Dr Savvas Papagiannidis and includes Dr Joanna Berry, this theme embraces research on E-business, E-commerce and Internet-related technologies with links to colleagues in Computing Science. Work in the group is focused on the dynamic interactions between the rapid development of Internet-related technologies and innovations in strategy, business models and organisational design.
Innovation, Enterprise and Sustainability 
These cross-cutting themes have a wide-ranging salience across KITE. Research in this theme works closely with NiRES (a university institute with a focus on sustainability) to identify the conditions for producing environmentally sustainable and socially accepted innovations, through analysis of relevant policies, strategies and practices of diverse stakeholders and their role in technology development. Key work includes the work of Dr Joanna Berry with colleagues on creative industries, Dr Jane Gibbon on social accounting, Dr Mariarosa Scarlata in the area of philanthropic venture capital, Dr Lucrezia Casulli on entrepreneurial decision making, Dr Simon Parry on green accounting practices in small businesses, Paul Richter on business regulation, Dr Panagiotis Piperopoulos on open innovation, Dr Robert Willison on information systems and deviance in organisations, Dr Tyrone Pitsis on design practices, and Dr Janine Swail on gender and entrepreneurship.
Public Services Innovation (PSI)
Led by Dr Rob Wilson, the PSI group is an interdisciplinary research group, drawing on the theoretical bases of social science, management practice and information systems, and grounded in the real world challenges of public service, multi-agency partnership working. The group has an established reputation in applied action research and development projects in the context of public service delivery with established links with the medical faculty (Dr Tracy Finch, Dr Gregory Maniatopoulos, and Dr Tim Rapley) and the schools of Civil Engineering (Profs Stephanie Glendinning and Richard Dawson), and Computing Science in the science faculty (Profs Patrick Olivier and Aad Van Moorsel).
Small Enterprise Research Unit (SERU)
Under the leadership of Professor Pooran Wynarczyk, SERU was established in 1995 and became part of the Business School in 2007 and more recently KITE. Pooran’s current interests include gender and ethnic aspects of entrepreneurship and science/STEM subjects. SERU is the centre of a 'virtual network', since many of its activities are undertaken in close partnership with policy makers, industrialists, academics and business support agencies at local, regional, national and international levels.
Students, Learning and Careers
Members of KITE are making significant contributions to the development of insights into current debates about the processes and outcomes of higher education in particular. Key work includes Dr Tracy Scurry with Dr Janine Swail on graduate careers, Dr Panagiotis Piperopoulos, Dr Fiona Whitehurst and Dr Andrew Simpson across a range of entrepreneurship education contexts and Paul Richter and Dr Rob Wilson on institutional, staff and student responses to structural changes in the HE sector.
Universities, Innovation and Society
Research on this theme has a long history at Newcastle University, and members of KITE work closely with colleagues Louise Kempton and Professor John Goddard in CURDS including the role of Universities in Civic leadership and regional development. Key work includes the activity of Dr Fiona Whitehurst in the development of the Sub-Sea Marine industry and Dr Colin Ashurst, Dr Rob Wilson with colleagues on innovation and IS in higher education.