Nicos Nicolaou is a Lecturer in Management at the Department of Public and Business Administration at the University of Cyprus and a Visiting Fellow at the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Group at Imperial College Business School. He was previously a Lecturer at Imperial College London. He is included in Who’s Who in the World, the Dictionary of International Biography, and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. Nicos´ research has appeared on the CNN, BBC, The Times, USA Today, ABC News, Reuters, MSNBC, Washington Post, The Independent, Daily Mail, The Guardian etc. Nicos has a PhD from Imperial College London (2004), a Master’s degree from the University of Cambridge and a BSc with First Class Honours from the University of Bristol. He has been awarded the Psion Prize for best Doctoral thesis, the Cambridge Chevening Scholarship, the A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholarship, a University of Bristol Undergraduate Scholarship, the Principal’s Award for Outstanding Teaching at Imperial College London, and a Fellowship of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. He has published in journals like Management Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and the Journal of Business Venturing.

Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, Behavioral Genetics, University Spinouts, Social Networks, University-Industry Technology Transfer.

•Nicolaou, N. Shane, S., Cherkas, L., Hunkin, J., Spector, T. Is the tendency to engage in entrepreneurship genetic? Management Science 54(1) 167-179 (2008).

•Nicolaou, N., Birley, S. Social networks in organizational emergence: the university spinout phenomenon.
Management Science Vol. 49(11) p. 1702-1725. (2003).

•Criscuolo, P. Nicolaou, N., Salter, A. The elixir or burden of youth? Exploring differences among start-ups and established firms in innovation behavior in the UK. Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2008).

•Nicolaou, N., Shane, S. Cherkas, L., Spector, T. The influence of sensation seeking in the heritability of entrepreneurship. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2 7-21 (2008).

•Nicolaou, N., Shane, S. Born entrepreneurs? The genetic foundations of entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing (forthcoming).

•Nicolaou, N., Birley, S. Academic networks in a trichotomous categorization of university spinouts. Journal of Business Venturing Vol. 18 (3) p. 333-359 (2003).

•Nicolaou, N. A spinning streak: A four-dimensional perspective on university spinouts. European Biopharmaceutical Review Spring, 26-31. (2007).

•Nicolaou, N. Institutional structures and the creation of university spinouts. European Biopharmaceutical Review Spring, p.34-39. (2006).