Hannah Simcoe-Read delivers the Entrepreneurship programme at UEL working with students from all academic disciplines. Developing  entrepreneurial mindset and an enquiring analytical mindset to developing innovative  sustainable  business models are the key pillars to teaching and faciliating  life long learning.  Facilitating and training innovation based on seeing opportunities and synergies and working in teams to  learn to innovate without money is embedded in the programme. Drawing on the international, national and local  cooperative network of SMEs/centres allows student teams to act as innovators and consultants to aid the market entry of new produc/services and creating themselves an platform for employment. She is working with a number of  universities in Europe, India and China developing a method to integrating entrepreneurship, urbanisation and embedding sustainable business methods at all levels of  internationalising SMEs and building trust in cross –cultural collaborations. 

Hannah has set up a regular Entrepreneurship Weekend  Masterclass “Teams for London” in co-operation with NACUE, The Petchy Academy, CityGateway and other partners to support  new fast growing ventures and create teams that can be placed into fast growing enterprises to mutual benefit as an extra human resource and aiding employability of students. Key subgroups are STEM female entrepreneurs, Women as cornerstones in the sustainable development of European Fisheries  and the support for female artists.

Hannah was the Director of an ESF funded EMPOWER projects, supporting 230 ethnic minority  women to setting up and growing their own businesses. The Programme delivery addressed creating  communities rather than just individuals to pool their strength for empowering to create effective delivery and well being. This work is ongoing through cooperation with international professional women groups.

Hannah also leads the implementation of a Venture Fund  INVEST-LIFE to fund global SMEs cooperation and internationalisation of SME. Hannah works closely with a team of EU Business Innovation Centres and international  Universities and SME development centres, especially  in the BRIC countries.  IPR training and evaluation and  trade development using on cross cultural/disciplinary  team approach and working  the respective Diaspora SME communities are key project drivers.

Hannah is a social and cognitive psychologist by training but has worked as an industrial analyst for one of the largest international Japanese banks, and as a regional development consultant in Eastern Europe, Germany  and Africa.

BA (Hons) Business Management Cluster Tutor

Hannah research interests:  Research and developing new sustainable business models; internationalising SMEs; Creating sustainable communities and Developing fast growing ventures.

• BA ( Hons) Business Management
• Postgraduate supervision

• Entrepreneurship

• Unlocking the potential of small-scale fisheries , joint research with nef ,ICSF Belgium Office 2010, using Hastings as an example to develop new community asset models

• The development of Self-efficacy in Entrepreneurship teaching ( joint research with Cambridge University)

• H.Simcoe-Read, A Case Study:  Reflecting and Exploring Knowledge Sharing Processes Using The Cultural Aware Multistage - Model Of Knowledge Transfer in a Ghanaian Context. JSATT 2008

• H.Simcoe-Read, Interorganisational knowledge transfer creating institutional competitive advantages for a Higher Education Institution IntEnd  2008

• H.Simcoe-Read, A case study in progress: Implementing a graduate employment and placement service company at the University of Ghana

• H. Simcoe-Read, T Hoshino, The Knowledge Creation Spiral in University Entrepreneurship Teaching, IntEnd 2007 

• H.Simcoe-Read, Hard to reach women and lifestyle survival entreprneruship , Intend 2006

• H. Simcoe-Read, E. Thomas -Hope  The development of a test case to set up a Jamaican entrepreneurial sustainable agriculture trading circle with the UK.  WorldBank Conference Kingston 2006

A Case Study: Reflecting and Exploring Knowledge Sharing Processes Using The Cultural Aware Multistage - Model Of Knowledge Transfer in a Ghanaian Context. JSATT 2008  

This field case study was designed as a delivery project to transfer a high value entrepreneurial student placement service and processes to a Ghanaian University 1.

This reflective narrative paper aims to contribute to open the black box of inter-organisational knowledge transfer to foster knowledge sharing   contributing to up-skilling existing organisational practices. The key emphasis in this field experiment was to ensure that the theatre of operation was a common Life–World were knowledge sharing rather than knowledge transfer could take place. The project developed from articulating personal knowledge acquired through partnership meetings and market research.

This narrative approach utilizes Abou-Zeid (2005) proposition of the “Cultural aware multi-stage model of inter-organisational knowledge transfer system” as back drop and as a theoretical underpinning of the project design and delivery.