Entrepreneurial finance
Academic and technology entrepreneurship
Behavioural Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial inspiration
Polychronicity
Analysis versus intuition
Escalation of commitment
Institutional and network
PhD, University of Bradford (UK, 1998)
MBA, Cardiff Business School (UK, 1995)
BSc in Chemical Engineering, University of Thessaloniki (Greece, 1994)
2018- now University of St. Gallen, Global Centre of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
2006-now Bayes Business School, City St George's University, Professor of Entrepreneurship
2009-now Visiting Professor, International Hellenic University
2015-2016 Visiting Scholar, London Business School
2014-2018 Visiting Professor, LUISS University
2008-2009 Visiting Scholar, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
2008 Visiting professor, University of Bologna
2004-2006 Bayes (former Cass) Business School, City University of London, Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
2005 Visiting Scholar, Vlerick Leuven-Gent Business School
1998-2004 Imperial College London, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship
Prof. Dr. Vangelis Souitaris teaches Innovation and Entrepreneurship to undergraduates MScs and MBAs since 1998. He has established academic leadership in teaching and his courses are consistently highly rated (for example his MBA Innovation and Entrepreneurship elective had 4.5 out of 5, one of the highest feedback scores at Cass). He employs an innovative mix of theory, theory-driven practical frameworks, case studies and simulations, which usually excites student-audiences across the programmes. He has also developed an entrepreneurship case study (Corex) published and used across European programmes.
The tech community “hot topics” - Top 100 entrepreneurship professors globally (2015)
Poets and Quants Top 40 business professors under 40 (2011)
The Cass award of excellence in postgraduate teaching (2010)
ESRC award: £95000 (2007)
The City University award of excellence in teaching (2006)
Gate2Growth Research fellowship: EUR 11800 (2005)
The Cass award of excellence in undergraduate teaching (2004)
NATO full-time PhD scholarship: £30000 (1995-1998)
2020-now Field Editor - Journal of Business Venturing
2017-now Journal of Management Studies (editorial board)
2015-now Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (editorial board)
2019-now Academy of Management Perspectives (editorial board)
Prof. Dr. Vangelis Souitaris is an active PhD supervisor. He has supervised 9 doctoral students in total. 7 of his students have already completed. Four of them joined academia as assistant professors or post-docs (Konstantinos Pitsakis joined Tilburg, Tori Huang joined Nottingham, Bo Peng joined Warwick, Kevin Curran joined Oxford). Three more (Marcello Maestro, Grace Liu & Djordje Djokovic) went to the industry to work for Bravemarket, AC Nielsen and Liquid Capital respectively. PhD supervision is one of his greatest strengths. He has built a team of PhD students working on Entrepreneurship. His aim is to train young scholars, keep them motivated and hard-working and most importantly to help them deliver research results, i.e. complete their PhD and publish their work.
During Prof. Dr. Vangelis Souitaris' 6 years at Imperial (between 1998-2004), he has taught and published in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and actively participated in the start-up of Imperial’s Entrepreneurship Centre under the direction of Professor Sue Birley. He was the centre’s research co-ordinator, supervised two PhD students and advised venture teams for Imperial’s £55K annual business plan competition.
After being promoted as the full professor at Cass Business School in 2006, Prof. Dr. Vangelis Souitaris became the founding subject leader for entrepreneurship, by founding a new subject group in 2008. He grew the group to (currently) nine full-time faculty members.
The main activities of the group are as follows.
During 2011-2015, Prof. Dr. Vangelis Souitaris was the PhD director for Management at Cass. He led the transformation of the PhD programme from a traditional three-year apprentice system to a four-year, training-based, system with a focus on top quality output and placement of students in good academic positions.