Patrick has an BSc in Economics, an MSc in Enterprise and Business Creation, and an MRes in Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems. He has completed three dissertations. The first investigates the government policies required to effectively disseminate emerging technologies across an economy. The second investigates the psychological antecedents of graduate students deciding to become an entrepreneur when faced with an entrepreneurial opportunity. The third investigates the impact of pronouncing an entrepreneurial opportunity to customers on an online blog. Patrick intends to become an entrepreneurship researcher, with the guidance of AAPS CDT and his supervisors, whose research can be applied by practitioners within established organisations.
Patrick has previously worked as a research assistant for the Department of Economics at the University of East Anglia, a research consultant for a high-tech start-up, and as a Student Union representative at the University of Bath. He currently works as a research assistant for the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath.
The development of breakthrough innovations is a requirement to address the grand societal challenges we have in a timely manner. To address the need for breakthrough innovations, resource holders and intrapreneurs based in vehicle manufacturers are increasingly collaborating with entrepreneurs from start-ups based in different industries to leverage their expertise and resources. These types of horizontal partnerships are known as Cross-Industry Alliance Entrepreneurship (CIAE).
Given the high degree of technical and market uncertainty associated with breakthrough innovation, the understanding of the entrepreneurial opportunity often changes over the course of the project, requiring a repeat of the opportunity recognition process. Therefore Alliances must have the capability to continuously recognize breakthrough entrepreneurial opportunities throughout a project’s lifespan and to gather the support it requires for its exploitation.
Patrick's PhD research study will provide insights into the routines, experiences, actions, and interactions of entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and resource holders to accomplish this task within a Cross-Industry Alliance Entrepreneurship.
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