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Dr Bettina Becker

Associate Professor in Strategy & Innovation


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Affiliation
Associate Professor in Strategy & Innovation in the Business School

Biography

I am an economist with a research focus on innovation. Before joining Durham University Business School, I worked as a Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) in London and as Lecturer in Economics and in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. I hold a PhD in Economics from Birkbeck College at the University of London, an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, and a Dipl.-Volksw. from the University of Bonn, one year of which I studied at Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge.

My main research interests include innovation and R&D, in particular innovation policy, environmental innovation, open innovation, innovation diffusion, and sustainability.

Output of my work on innovation policy has been cited in several publications by policy-making and policy-advising institutions, such as the Social Market Foundation in the UK, The Hamilton Project in the United States, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, the World Bank, the OECD and the European Commission. I have acted as an academic advisor to the Department of Economy, Science and Innovation of the Flemish Government in Brussels, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and The Behavioural Insights Team. 

My research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Anglo-German Foundation, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German Ministry of Finance, and the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), amongst others. I have myself peer-reviewed grant applications for the ESRC and the DFG.

My work has been published in international academic journals including Research Policy, Regional Studies, Small Business Economics, Journal of International Business Policy, and International Journal of Finance and Economics. Find more details about my publications on my Google Scholar profile.

I teach modules in Innovation Management and in Innovation and Technology Management on the BA Business and Management and the MSc Management programmes, respectively.

In my free time, I enjoy hiking, playing music, and voluntary charity work.

Mini-Biography

I am an economist with a research focus on innovation. My main research interests include innovation and R&D, in particular innovation policy, environmental innovation, open innovation, innovation diffusion, and sustainability. Before joining Durham University Business School, I worked as a Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London.

Research interests

  • innovation policy
  • environmental innovation
  • open innovation
  • innovation diffusion
  • sustainability

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