Mr Simon Gee
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Job title: Senior Lecturer in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Email: s.gee@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591260
Room: E313b
Recent publications
- 2010: Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education, Volume 3,Contributing Paper on Entrepreneurial Learning
- 2009: SPEEDing to Success - A review of Graduates start-ups
- 2008: An Alternative Solution for developing SME's
- 2007: Entrepreneurial Student Experience at the University of Derby
- 2006: The role of an entrepreneurial learning team in creating an enterprise culture - Best Paper Award @ International Conference
Moon, R Gee, S. 2011 Creating Business Opportunity. Palgrave.
Experience in Industry
I have work experience in managing and owning small businesses and I have been involved in the development of several over the years. I have worked for larger companies in the past but I prefer to work with SMEs as I feels a sense of ownership.
I continue with my business interests and feels this to be vital in the development and practical application to the modules and their content.
Faculty: Business, Computing and Law
School: Derby Business School
Subject Area: Enterprise
Supporting the Faculty and School Vision
I have substantial experience in teaching undergraduate and post-graduate students and also working with post-experience enterprise and entrepreneurship programmes, as well as working with students and graduates who are developing new business ventures. I am also active in making new connections between enterprise learning, career development and employability.
I believe very strongly in taking a practiced based approach to learning formulated around my own business experience and theoretical understanding.
Teaching responsibilities
Lecturing:
- Enterprise Management
- Strategic Entrepreneurship
- SME Growth & Development
- Innovation & Creativity
- Creating Business Opportunity
- International Business
Tutoring:
- New Business Ventures
- SME Mentoring
Research interests
My area of research is mainly based around Enterprise and Entrepreneurship and its application; not just within a business context, but how this can be applied within an educational environment, developing an enterprise culture is vitally important in today's competitive world. More recently I have become more interested in how SMEs move from a national to international context.
Additional Interests and Activities
As module leader for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship I am responsible for developing the modules in Enterprise for the undergraduate and post graduate programmers'. I take a very practice based approach to that development based upon his own business experience and theoretical understanding.
Being proactive, I seek to actively encourage entrepreneurial thinking and its development not just from within the Business School but also across other faculties within the University and with businesses.
Postgraduate qualifications
- MBA , Nottingham Trent University
