Staff profile

Dr Stephanie Scott is an Associate Professor in Innovation and Strategic Management. She holds a PhD in Management Degree from Durham University Business School, which was recognized as an Outstanding Thesis during the 2017 congregation ceremony. She also possesses a Master in Science in Management (International Business) degree (Merit-level honours) and Bachelors of Business Administration (International Business). She is currently a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice. 

Dr Scott's research focuses on innovation networks, behaviours, and processes. She is particularly interested in the exploration of formal and informal relational governance mechanisms, business model designs, and the enabling/constraining factors of coupled process open innovation network performance. Her research projects have been focused on the transfer of highly specialised technical knowledge and communication with the new product development process context. She regularly disseminates the findings of her work and expertise to benefit a broad range of stakeholders; including several multi-national organizations, SMEs, and local and national policy-makers. 

In addition to her modules, she supervises research projects within the UG, MBA, MSc, DBA, and PhD level programmes. She is particularly interested in supervising students who are keen to explore Innovation Performance, Agile Manufacturing, R&D Processes, and/or Strategic Partnerships/Open Innovation Networks. Additionally, she is interested in supervising projects with a context set in FinTech, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering/STEM Management, etc. She is very drawn to the use of social network methodologies, but is skilled in a using a broad range of qualitative and quantitative methods, approaches, and analysis. 

Prior to her life in Academia, Stephanie worked within the supply chain functions within the food and beverage industry and was also a marketing operations executive within the online gaming industry. She has been trained in a broad range of industrial technologies; including Red Prairie, Oracle, SAP, TMW, AS/400, SPSS, UCInet, Pajek, Office, Visual Basic, nVivo, Qualtrics, Qualcomm BREW, Netdraw. 

Mini Biography

Stephanie is an Associate Professor in Management.

• Social and Relational Capital
• Networks and Innovation
• Institutions and Research Policy
• Open Innovation and Strategic Partnerships
• Knowledge Management/Psychology of Learning
• University-Business Strategy Planning
• New Product Development

• 2017: Outstanding Thesis Award: Durham University Business School
• 2016: Outstanding Contribution to Life: Ustinov College, Durham University
• 2015: Dean's Award for Excellence: Postgraduate Teaching: Durham University Business School
• 2000: Editorial Board Member - World Open Innovation Conference (UC Berkeley):
• 2000: Governor - Monkseaton High School, North Tyneside:
• 2000: Regional Transport Plan Steering Group, Northeast, UK:
• 2000: Invited Speaker - Career Advice for Women, Ustinov Success Series:

Conference Paper

• Scott, S. (2017, December). The scale of institutional influence on innovation networks: A qualitative examination of the effects on University-Business partnerships (Developmental Paper). Paper presented at 31st British Academy of Management Conference: Reconnecting Management Research with the Disciplines, Warwick, United Kingdom
• Aparicio, S., Noguerra, M., Scott, S., Munoz-Mora, J., & Urbano, D. (2022, August). Do Country-level Institutions Influence YouTubers as Digital Entrepreneurs?. Presented at 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: Creating a Better World Together, Seattle, Washington
• Plata, G., Scott, S., & Rincon, S. A. (2022, July). Exploring the Link Between Product Innovation Capacities and Social Entrepreneurial Venture Emergence. Presented at 29th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Hamburg, Germany
• Omari, D., Scott, S., & Tsinopoulos, C. (2022, July). The Relationship between Quality Management and Product Innovation: A Systematic Review. Presented at 29th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Hamburg, Germany
• Niemand, T., Scott, S., Kraus, S., & Oberreiner, R. (2020, January). Let the games begin: Finding the nascent entrepreneurial mindset of video gamers. Presented at 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, USA
• Spraul, K., De Marchi, V., Scott, S., & Bertels, S. (2018, August). Mind the Gap: Practices for University-Industry Collaboration to Support Sustainable Innovation. Presented at 78th Annual Academy of Management Conference: Improving Lives, Chicago, Illinois
• Scott, S., Hughes, M., Hughes, P., & Burrows, P. (2016, June). The Relational Complexities of Open Innovation Networks: Mapping The Social Capital within University and Business Research Collaborations. Presented at 23rd Innovation and Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC) : Crossing Borders and Boundaries: The Changing Role of Innovation/Entrepreneurship., Glasgow, UK
• Scott, S., Hughes, M., & Hughes, P. (2016, June). Adaptive Processes and Relational Complexities: New Contingencies in Open Innovation Network Research. Presented at The Strategic Management Society Special Conference. Strategy Challenges in the 21st Century: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Coopetition., Rome, Italy
• Scott, S., Hughes, M., & Hughes, P. (2016, June). Social Capital’s Role for Value Creation in Open Innovation Networks. Presented at The Strategic Management Society Special Conference. Strategy Challenges in the 21st Century: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Coopetition., Rome, Italy

Journal Article

• Omari, D., Scott, S. A., Tóth, Z., & Tsinopoulos, C. (online). The SME R&D intensity and product innovation relationship: the mediating role of quality management in the context of a developing country. R&D Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12721
• Urbano, D., Aparicio, S., Scott, S., & Martinez-Moya, D. (2024). Inside out: The interplay between institutions and digital technologies for SMEs performance. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36(1-2), 162-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2023.2208555
• Niemand, T., Scott, S., Kraus, S., Oberreiner, R., & Puumalainen, K. (2022). Let the games begin: The relationship between video gaming and entrepreneurial mindsets. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 29(5), 807-824. https://doi.org/10.1108/jsbed-09-2021-0360
• Scott, S., Hughes, M., & Ribeiro-Soriano, D. (2022). Towards a Network-based View of Effective Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Review of Managerial Science, 16(1), 157-187. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-021-00440-5
• Plata, G., Aparicio, S., & Scott, S. (2021). The sum of its parts: Examining the institutional effects on entrepreneurial nodes in extensive innovation ecosystems. Industrial Marketing Management, 99, 136-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2021.10.007
• Czakon, W., Kawa, A., & Scott, S. (2020). Network orientation of logistics service providers: the construct, dimensionality, and measurement. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 23(5), 474-492. https://doi.org/10.1080/13675567.2019.1705260
• Scott, S., Hughes, P., Hodgkinson, I., & Kraus, S. (2019). Technology Adoption Factors in the Digitization of Popular Culture: Analyzing the Online Gambling Market. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 148, Article 119717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119717
• Scott, S., Hughes, M., & Kraus, S. (2019). Developing relationships in innovation clusters. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 31(1-2), 22-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2018.1537145