Dr Kurt Allman

Associate Dean Enterprise & Engagement

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Dr Kurt Allman is the Associate Dean for Enterprise & Engagement for the College of Business & Law, comprising Salford Business School and Salford School of Law. Kurt has significant experience in enterprise both in the UK and Europe, principally at some of the UK’s leading universities and international consultancy businesses. Kurt’s engagement and research interests have particularly focused on technology and science SMEs. Over the last decade he has worked with over 300 companies, including some of the region’s most dynamic start-up businesses as part of his role as Director of Knowledge Exchange through the IDEAS collaboration (involving Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster universities) at the STFC’s Daresbury and Harwell Science Innovation Campuses. Kurt has written and contributed to numerous publications, as well as regularly refereeing journals in the area of enterprise, entrepreneurship and the role of emergent technology in transforming business practice. Kurt’s teaching promotes synoptic learning through the use of live company projects, which has won accolade from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Department for Business Innovation & Skills.

Kurt has extensive experience of international collaborative projects aimed at supporting social cohesion and regional economic development.

His area of interest and expertise are:

• Early stage entrepreneurship and pre-incubation strategies.
• Regional economic policy and indicator development.
• SME engagement and knowledge exchange.
• Organisational capabilities and business model development.

Kurt has experience of managing over 10,000 sq. ft. of pre-incubator space both on and off campus primarily for early stage business support, resulting in over 80 new business formations and numerous spin-ins. As well as this, through previous roles, he has initiated, developed or supported a number of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships across the Northwest.

Kurt is currently an A-level Business Studies Reform Expert Panel member.

Prior to commencing an academic career, Kurt undertook a significant amount of consultancy projects for Databank and CRISP consultancy practices. Building upon his PhD research insights, Kurt examined the impact of national and EU legislation on technology deployment across utility infrastructures. These transnational projects, focussing on the EU’s largest industrial nations, as well as new member states, provided new perspectives on the EU’s future legislative and competitive challenges across a number of crucial industrial groups. The total value of these consultancy projects was approximately €6.8 million.

International

Consultancy roles at CRISP and Databank Consulting within Milan, Italy.

North American Foundation scholarship at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

Unit leader for the Business Innovation Project, part of the School’s innovative applied teaching and learning component on post graduate taught programmes.

Supervises MSc dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship, SME strategy, organisational capabilities and business modelling.

Supervises PhDs in the area of organisational capabilities and enterprise development.

Current PhDs

• “What is the role and impact of enterprise education when delivered by leading football clubs?”

• MEng – University of Hull.
• MPhil – Cranfield University.
• PhD – University of Manchester.
• Member of The Institute of Knowledge Transfer.
• Member of The Institution of Engineering & Technology.

Publications – Journals, Reports and Conferences

Enterprise Education Curriculum Design – lessons from sustainable development pedagogic innovations (p. 15 – 20) Helen Dobson, Kurt Allman, Bland Tomkinson, Jonathan Styles, 18th EDINEB Conference “From Innovation to Crème de la Crème Education”! June 7 - 10, 2011 IDRAC, Lyons, France, proceeding – ISBN:978-90-813727-0-1 NUR:841

http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/7071/2/Proceedings_EDiNEB_2011_09_05_2011_short.pdf

Measuring wider framework conditions for successful innovation: A system’s review of UK and international innovation data, Publsihed by NESTA, January 2011. Authors; Kurt Allman, Jakob Edler, Luke Georghiou, Barbara Jones, Ian Miles, Omid Omidvar, Ronnie Ramlogan and John Rigby.

http://www.nesta.org.uk/home1/assets/features/measuring_wider_framework_conditions_for_successful_innovation

Fogg, H., Allman, K., Shehabuddeen Hlaing, N., 2009. “Supporting hi-tech
start-ups through knowledge exchange: a collaborative support programme based within a Science Innovation Campus” ISBE Conference 2009, Liverpool, UK

Elizabeth Chell & Kurt Allman, “Mapping the motivations and intentions of technology orientated entrepreneurs”, R&D Management, 33, 2, 2003 Blackwell Publishing.

http://xcsc.xoc.uam.mx/apymes/webftp/documentos/biblioteca/motivations%20and%20intentions%20of%20technology.pdf

E Chell and K Allman (2002) 'The development of High Technology Enterprises from HEIs: Some Methodological Considerations' in R Oakey, W During, Saleema Kauser (Eds.) New Technology-Based Firms in the New Millennium, Vol II, Amsterdam: Pergamon, Ch 6, pp 71-93.

http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9780080441337

Benchmarking the EU against the eEurope 2015 targets, SIBIS, June 2003. (see http://www.sibis-eu.org/).

 Benchmarking the Newly Associated States (NAS) against the eEurope 2015 targets, SIBIS, July 2003. (see http://www.sibis-eu.org/)

SIBIS – Work package 2: Topic research and indicator development, 7: E-Commerce. Project funded by the European Community under the "Information Society Technology" Programme (1998-2002). See http://www.sibis-eu.org/files/D2-2/SIBIS_WP2_e-Commerce.pdf

2nd Synthesis Report of the e-Business W@tch, A portrait of e-business in the 15 sectors of the EU economy. July 2003, European Commission. ISBN 92-894-5119-X. See: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/archives/e-business-watch/key_reports/documents/EBR03.pdf   

e-Business Market Watch Project: Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Impact study No. 1/III: Recent trends (2003): Presentation of new survey results from 2003, June 2003 (EU IST project)

1st Synthesis Report of the e-Business W@tch’, March 2003, see: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/archives/e-business-watch/key_reports/documents/EBR02.pdf

e-Europe Key Actions & Evaluations, Towards the Information Society in Europe and the US, SIBIS Benchmarking Highlights 2002, SIBIS, (IST project output)

http://www.sibis-eu.org/files/SibisHighlights2002.pdf

The e-Readiness of European Enterprises, A Special Report of the e-Business Watch, European Information Technology Observatory, 2003, 11th Edition, Brussels. (EU IST project)

ICT in the Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Industry, The European e-Business Market Watch, Sector Report No.10, October 2002, European Commission, Enterprise Directorate General, Brussels, September 2002. (EU IST project)

ICT & e-Business in the Financial Sector, The European e-Business Market Watch, Newsletter No.4, July 2002, European Commission, Enterprise Directorate General. (EU IST project)

ICT in the Food, Beverage & Tobacco Industry, The European e-Business Market Watch, Newsletter No.1, July, 2002, European Commission, Enterprise Directorate General. (EU IST project)

Allman, K., “Understanding the motivations of the technology orientated entrepreneur”, R&D Management conference, Dublin, 2001.

Chell, E., & Allman, K., “The metamorphosis of nascent entrepreneurs and high technology ventures in science enterprise centres: the adoption of multi-paradigm methods and interplay strategies”, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Development Conference, April 2002, University of Nottingham.

Prospects and Problems for New Environmental Technologies, Utilities Journal, OXERA, April, 2001

Projects, Grants & Impact

2010-11 To raise awareness and aspirations towards entrepreneurial intentions whilst undertaking studies and providing support after graduation. HEFCE HEIF 4 funding, £141,586.

2009-10 To support engagement and employability of students at university. HEFCE HEIF 4 funding, £134,600.

2009-10 To support engagement with and knowledge transfer flows between science and technology businesses at the Daresbury and Harwell innovation campuses: entitled Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship and Science - IDEAS. Funded by the Northwest Development Agency, the European Regional Development Fund, and supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council; £106,212 to support 60 regional science businesses.

2008-9 To support the innovative development of an enterprise curriculum. HEFCE HEIF 4 funding, £125,000.

2008-9 To galvanize the resources and expertise of the higher education (HE) sector towards countering the impact of the economic downturn on individuals and employers. HEFCE Economic Challenge and Innovation Fund, £99,425.

2007-9 Venture Centres & Mentors 2, Regional Action Plan: total project cost £827,661 of which £359,785 was provided by structural funds. The intervention supported 64 SMEs, created 49 new jobs and £5.3M of new sales.

2007-8 To support the transformation and uptake of an enterprise curriculum within Science and Engineering. HEFCE HEIF 3 funding, £250,000.

2005-8 Gatsby Charitable Foundation: Collaborative enterprise provision with the Manchester College of Arts and Technology (MANCAT) as part of local pre-incubator provision in partnership with the University of Manchester. Generously supported through £289,438 of funding.

2006-7 To support infrastructure necessary to foster and sustain nascent entrepreneurship both on and off campus. HEFCE HEIF 3 funding, £250,000.

2006-7 HE ESF National Award to extend the provision of support for early stage entrepreneurship across Greater Manchester. Supported by £217,590 of European funding.

2005-6 HE ESF National Projects, to develop provision of support and infrastructure for early stage entrepreneurship across Greater Manchester. Enabled through £271,190 of European funding.

2005-6 To develop, more intensively, early stage science spin-off activity through teaching and research collaborations. Collaborative Award of £925,000, of which £90,000 was utilised to support specific interventions, funded through a HEFCE – HEIF 2 award.

2002-6 Venture Centres & Mentors – Knowledge Based Action Plan: total project cost of £1,035,347, of which £298,150 was provided by structural funds. This supported 80 regional SMEs, created 64 new jobs and £4,156,000 of sales.

2005-7 OST Science Enterprise Challenge Fund: £924,850: To support and enhance enterprise education provision both on and off curriculum.