Expert Commentary

In the world of business, things are constantly changing. Our expert academics explain and give their views on the latest hot topics from the worlds of law, business, HR, finance, retail and much more.

Academic writing: 10 lessons for business school publications for #REF2020

What should business school academics and those aspiring for a career in a business and management field focus on? The classic four P’s: Publications (high quality journal articles), Pounds (research income), PhD students (the graduation of successful PhD students) and Presence (engagement in conventional press, keynotes etc.) are constantly being extended. In REF 2014 for […]

NARTI workshop: 10 academic online profile development lessons

Salford Business School in collaboration with the Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative (NARTI) organised a workshop to help PhD students and academics to develop their online profiles. This hands on workshop allowed participants to review their personal academic profile strategy and plan future activities to increase their research impact. NARTI is an association of leading […]

How an entrepreneurial family business goes global

DiscreteHeat is a Manchester-based family business. Their product is an ingenious heating system, which hides radiators inside a skirting board. Martin Wadsworth, DiscreteHeat Managing Director, first appeared on Dragons Den in 2006 with his heating product, which is aimed at people who want to avoid those ugly wall-hung radiators. Since then, Martin has grown his […]

Enterprise competition: entries for #CreativeEnt Innovation Bazaar

Salford Business School have been working with WA:UK Tech Angels for a number of years. Tech Angels are a member of the Web Applications group based here in the North-West of England in Oldham. They are early stage angel investors. This means that  they are focus their investment on new and innovative digital ideas rather than already […]

Student start-up scholarship – five pieces of wisdom for #Manchester entrepreneurs

We live in fast times. The constantly evolving socio-economics of the 21st Century are shaped by a digital generation that increasingly strives to say more with less. Why say something with a sentence you can articulate with a mere word? News institutions are striving to be more like culturally-resonant media sites such as Buzzfeed. It’s […]

Digital Business Maturity Model: The future of #DigitalBusiness

At the Centre for Digital Business we have recently been discussing what digital business is, the future of digital business and ways to understand the stages of digital development for any business. The contrasts between Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Large Multi-national Organisations (LMOs) are usually quite obvious in any comparative survey of business maturity or readiness. But, digital is different. […]

British Academy of Management conference #BAM2014 – reflections

British Academy of Management (BAM) conference is an important event on the calendar for business school academics and PhD researchers. The conference offers an opportunity to share the latest thinking in all aspects of management research and this year BAM 2014 took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 9th to 11th September 2014. A team […]

Can a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) help your SME?

Pennine Telecom are a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) based in Greater Manchester, UK. Pennine Telecom began their partnership with Salford University over 10 years ago, supporting the Annual Family Telecoms Exhibition and more recently by producing a product demonstration video for Yealink UK, it was during the production of the video that Pennine Telecom realised […]

Bitcoin’s blockchain could revolutionise more than just how we do #business

Efforts to explain Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general have generally focused on how they are both a new form of money as well as a challenge to existing forms of money. Cryptocurrencies are novel as they are only possible because of the ready availability of high-speed computing and networks. They are a challenge to today’s […]

10 great reasons to attend Creative Entrepreneur 2014 #CreativeEnt #MediaCityUK

Salford Business School is opening its doors at our cutting edge showcase space at MediaCityUK campus to YOU! Whether you are a young entrepreneur or a seasoned professional you will find a great networking opportunity to inspire your digital business thinking at our Creative Entrepreneur 2014 event. Meet young entrepreneurs amongst our students, members of […]