Education: MA in Management {Durham University}, MA in Marketing (Akademia Ekonomiczna w Krakowie – Krakow University of Economics).
Frank is currently working as a research assistant on a multidisciplinary project to capture the collaborative learning from the University’s “Bridging the Gap” (BTG) initiative. BTG is a multidisciplinary research programme funded by EPSRC which aims to stimulate collaboration between researchers in the mathematical sciences, ICT and engineering and increase the take-up of the resultant research advances. Frank will focus on evaluation of various initiatives and support the BTG team in gaining real synergy from research and training collaborations involving science, engineering and business faculty academics and industrial partners.
Before joining Strathclyde Frank worked as a researcher at Durham Business School on a UE pilot project [NeKS] which resulted in establishment of Subsea NorthEast – a representative body for the subsea sector in the North East of England. After completing the NeKS project he worked for a short time at Cranfield University as a research fellow, finishing a two year research project into innovation networks in biotech and pharmaceutical industries.
In addition to his work at SBS, Frank continues his part-time doctoral research at Durham Business School, focusing on the recombination of old industrial skills and emergence of new sectors in the context of heavy deindustrialisation and identification of new sectors/ clusters.
Before taking up his PhD, Frank worked as a brand consultant in Poland.
His research interests include:
- emergence and identification of new sectors in the context of deindustrialisation and collapse (Subsea Technologies sector in the North East of England)
- transformation and role of old industrial regions clusters, networks and business ecosystems
- open innovation, innovation networks and distributed knowledge
- industry – university collaboration and knowledge transfer
