Prof Paul Ellwood

    School of Business

    Biography

    I joined the Maynooth University in 2024 in order to develop a new Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA).  I also lecture on MN305 - Innovation Management: Tools and Concepts.

    My research interests fall into two distinct areas: research-informed management education pedagogies; and technology management and innovation. I have a particular interest in post-experience management education and online learning.  I have taught on MBA, DBA and Executive Education programmes; graduating 17 DBA and 1 PhD students.  Current projects include: pedagogies for doctoral supervision; mechanisms for realising research impact through management education; the impact of AI technologies on scientific research practices; and managing for serendipity during new product development.

    I have had a rather varied working life. My early education was in the natural sciences (culminating in a PhD in chemistry under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Professor J Fraser Stoddart).  I then spent 20 years in a variety of roles within chemistry-using industries including director-level positions in manufacturing and business development.  I have also worked in a Regional Development Agency and run my own management consultancy business.  A switch from natural to social sciences was accomplished following a PhD in Management Studies on the subject of responsible innovation. Previous academic appointments were at the University of Leeds and the University of Liverpool. 

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2024 Paul Trott; Paul Ellwood; David Baxter (2024) 'How Cognitive Bias Prevents Serendipity in New Product Development (and What to Do About It)'. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, . [Link] [DOI]
    2023 Baxter, D.; Trott, P.; Ellwood, P. (2023) 'Reconceptualising innovation failure'. Research Policy, . [Link] [DOI]
    2022 Borah, D.; Ellwood, P. (2022) 'The micro-foundations of conflicts in joint university-industry laboratories'. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, . [Link] [DOI]
    2022 Ellwood, P.; Williams, C.; Egan, J. (2022) 'Crossing the valley of death: Five underlying innovation processes'. Technovation, . [Link] [DOI]
    2022 Trott, P.; Baxter, D.; Ellwood, P.; van der Duin, P. (2022) 'The changing context of innovation management: A critique of the relevance of the stage-gate approach to current organizations'. Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation, . [Link] [DOI]
    2022 Spencer, L.; Anderson, L.; Ellwood, P. (2022) 'INTERWEAVING SCHOLARSHIP AND PRACTICE: A PATHWAY TO SCHOLARLY IMPACT'. Academy of Management Learning and Education, . [Link] [DOI]
    2021 Rigg, C.; Ellwood, P.; Anderson, L. (2021) 'Becoming a scholarly management practitioner – Entanglements between the worlds of practice and scholarship'. International Journal of Management Education, . [Link] [DOI]
    2020 Ellwood, P.; Horner, S. (2020) 'In search of lost time: the temporal construction of innovation management'. R and D Management, . [Link] [DOI]
    2020 Ussivane, A.M.; Ellwood, P. (2020) 'Action learning in the service of food security and poverty alleviation in Mozambique'. Action Learning: Research and Practice, . [Link] [DOI]
    2019 Ussivane, A.M.; Ellwood, P. (2019) 'Using action research to organize technology transfer in complex innovation contexts'. Technology Innovation Management Review, . [Link] [DOI]
    2018 Ellwood, P. (2018) 'Categorical entanglements of scholarly practice–re-connecting ‘L’, ‘P’ and ‘Q’ in new ways'. Action Learning: Research and Practice, . [Link] [DOI]
    2017 Ellwood, P.; Grimshaw, P.; Pandza, K. (2017) 'Accelerating the Innovation Process: A Systematic Review and Realist Synthesis of the Research Literature'. International Journal of Management Reviews, . [Link] [DOI]
    2017 Anderson, L.; Ellwood, P.; Coleman, C. (2017) 'The Impactful Academic: Relational Management Education as an Intervention for Impact'. British Journal of Management, . [Link] [DOI]
    2014 Beniston, L.; Ellwood, P.; Gold, J.; Roberts, J.; Thorpe, R. (2014) 'Innovation development – an action learning programme for medical scientists and engineers'. Action Learning: Research and Practice, . [Link] [DOI]
    2013 Pandza, K.; Ellwood, P. (2013) 'Strategic and ethical foundations for responsible innovation'. Research Policy, . [Link] [DOI]
    2013 Ellwood, P.; Thorpe, R.; Coleman, C. (2013) 'A model for knowledge mobilisation and implications for the education of social researchers'. Contemporary Social Science, . [Link] [DOI]
    2011 Thorpe, R.; Eden, C.; Bessant, J.; Ellwood, P. (2011) 'Rigour, relevance and reward: Introducing the knowledge translation value-chain'. British Journal of Management, . [Link] [DOI]
    1992 Ellwood, P.; Spencer, C.M.; Spencer, N.; Fraser Stoddart, J.; Zarzycki, R. (1992) 'Conformational mobility in chemically-modified cyclodextrins'. Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Molecular Recognition in Chemistry, . [Link] [DOI]
    1991 Ashton, P.R.; Ellwood, P.; Staton, I.; Stoddart, J.F. (1991) 'Per-3,6-anhydro-α-cyclodextrin and Per-3,6-anhydro-β-cyclodextrin'. Journal of Organic Chemistry, . [Link] [DOI]
    1991 Ashton, P.R.; Ellwood, P.; Staton, I.; Stoddart, J.F. (1991) 'Synthesis and Characterization of Per‐3,6‐anhydro Cyclodextrins'. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, . [Link] [DOI]
    1988 Ellwood, P.; Mathlas, J.P.; Fraser Stoddart, J.; Kohnke, F.H. (1988) 'Stereoelectronically‐programmed molecular ‘lego’ sets'. Bulletin des Sociétés Chimiques Belges, . [Link] [DOI]

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2015 Ellwood,P. (2015) 'Researching and working in and with organisations' In: A Guide to Professional Doctorates in Business & Management. London : SAGE Publications Ltd.
    2013 Ellwood, P.; Pandza, K.; Fisher, E. (2013) 'Organizational capability life cycles for responsible innovation' In: Emerging Technologies: Socio-Behavioral Life Cycle Approaches. [Link] [DOI]
    2011 Thorpe, R.; Ellwood, P. (2011) 'Positioning current UK management research' In: Challenges and Controversies in Management Research. [Link]
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