Muthu Silva

Muthu De Silva is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her research contributes to our knowledge on co-creation. She has published in world-leading (ABS 4*/3*) journals such as Research Policy, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, British Journal of Management, International Small Business Journal, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, R&D Management, Technovation, International Business Review and Studies in Higher Education.

She has secured major grants from Innovate UK, Intellectual Property Office, EU and British Academy/Leverhulme, OECD, and British Academy of Management. She is a fellow of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

She is in the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Management.

Education

• PhD Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester
• MBA The Bradford University School of Management
• BSc (Hons) University of Peradeniya

Companies

• Assistant Dean (Research) School of Business Economics and Informatics Birkbeck, University of London (2021)
• Reader (Associate Professor) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Birkbeck, University of London (2021)
• Director of Research Birkbeck, University of London (2020)
• Member of Economics and Business evaluation panel of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) - the Portuguese public funding agency for R&D (2020)
• Member of the external Peer Review Group (PRG) Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) (2020)
• Deputy Assistant Dean and Deputy Head of Department Birkbeck, University of London (2019 — 2021)
• Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Birkbeck, University of London (2019 — 2021)
• Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Birkbeck, University of London (2018 — 2019)
• Lecturer: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Kent Business School (2015 — 2017)