Senior Lecturer, Entrepreneurship
Pathway Leader, MBA part-time

Location: Lord Ashcroft Building, 3rd floor, Cambridge

UK: 0845 196 2549
International: +44 (0)1245 493131 ext. 2549
Email: robert.jones@anglia.ac.uk

Robert's specialist area is 'Entrepreneurship & Innovation' - this module is delivered 6 times annually and is a favourite of Masters students at Anglia Ruskin and at partner institutions around the world. Robert also teaches on the MAIB on the 'International Business Environment and Strategy' module and on the MBA module 'Business Analysis Project', a fascinating amalgam of strategy and finance. His current area of research is focused on issues faced by SMEs in their stages of growth.

Each year, Robert organises enterprise activities for students:

In 2008, the Anglia Ruskin team won first prize in the IBM Universities Business Challenge; in 2009, our team won through to the grand finals; in 2010 six of our teams competed in the semi-finals; in 2011 five teams competed in the semi-finals; in 2012, five teams in the semi-finals and our Anglia Ruskin University/Hochschule f. Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin team won the top prize for a second time.

In 2006, Robert's MBA team won first prize in the i-10 Innovators business elevator pitch competition on board the London Eye, putting three teams from Cambridge University into 2nd, 3rd and 4th place. Another MBA team arranged a Dragon's Den style presentation in which six real-life entrepreneurs were interviewed by a BBC Radio presenter.

In 2009, as a result of a student team competition in Global Entrepreneurship Week sponsored by Marshall Aerospace, one of our MA students was given a placement in this company to work on special projects for three months.

Every year in November, Robert organises events for Global Entrepreneurship Week.

He is a business advisor in the Young Enterprise scheme for young students at Hills Road VIth Form College in Cambridge. He was a contributor to the 8th IEF International Entrepreneurship Forum at MICA the Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad in India, 17 - 18 December 2008, and he is a regular guest speaker at Cambridge University's Cambridge Entrepreneurship Training Program(CETP) and at Cambridge Businesswomen's Network. Robert also is a member of the Cambridge Technopole coordinating group. He has mentored two KTP Knowledge Transfer Partnership projects.

Robert originally graduated in chemistry in the 1970s and after a varied career in the agrochemical industry in development and manufacturing, he completed his MBA in 1993. He has lectured at Anglia Ruskin since that time.

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