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Zoë Dann PhD, MPhil (Eng), M.Eng & Man, PG Cert (Dist), FHEA, Blue Peter competition badge winner

Zoë is Senior Lecturer in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. She has experience managing development and technology transfer projects in engineering and IT and has initiated, developed and delivered a number of programmes supporting SMEs and start-ups in Merseyside.

Research interests:

Technological entrepreneurship, complexity theory and knowledge management and their application to innovation and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship pedagogy, SME development

Books:

Barclay I, Dann Z & Holroyd P, (2000), “New Product Development”, Butterworth Heinnemann ISBN 0750649984

Refereed Journals:

Johnston K, Shi J, Dann Z & Barclay I, (2006), “Knowledge, Power and Trust in SME e-based Virtual Organisations”, The International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, Vol. 3 No.1, pp 42-59

Dann Z & Barclay I, (2006), “Complexity Theory and Knowledge Management Application”, Special Issue of the Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pp 21 -31

Sharifi H, Colquhoun G, Barclay I & Dann Z, (2001), “Agile Manufacturing: A Management and Operational Framework”, Inst. of Mechanical Engineering Proceedings, Vol. 215, Part B, pp 857–869

Barclay I, & Dann Z, (2000), “Improving Product Development Performance: Key Management and Organisational Factors”, Journal of General Management, Vol. 26, No.1 pp 36-55, Autumn.

Barclay I & Dann Z (2000), “Management and Organisational Factors in New Product Development (NPD) Success”, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, Vol. 8, Number 2, pp 115 -133, June.

Barclay I & Dann Z (2000), “New Product Development Performance Evaluation: A Product-Complexity Based Methodology”, Inst. of Electrical Engineering Proceedings, Science. Measurement and Technology, Vol. 147, No.2, pp 41-55, March

Refereed Conferences:

Dann Z. & Bettley A. (2007), “Enhancing Tacit Knowledge Transfer: Tailoring New Product Development (NPD) practices”, Proceedings of The European Conference of Knowledge Management, Barcelona , September

Dann Z, Price B, & Barclay, I (2007), “Entrepreneurship: A Framework for Assessment and Development”, ICSB World Conference, Finland , June

Otterson, P, Dann Z., Barclay, I, Bond P (2006), “Innovation Management: Complexity and Systems Thinking”, Proceedings of the European Conference of Knowledge Management, Budapest , September

Dann, Z, Porter, K and Otterson P, (2006), “E-Business Based SME Growth: Virtual Partnerships and Knowledge Equivalency”, Proceedings of the Conference of the International Association of Business Disciplines, San Diego , June

Dann, Z & Barclay, I (2005), “Complexity Theory and Knowledge Management Application”, Proceedings of The European Conference of Knowledge Management, Limerick, Eire, September.

ann Z, Poolton J & Barclay, I (1996), “Benchmarking CE Best Practice: Development of a Framework”, Proceedings of the CE 96 Conference “Concurrent Engineering: Research & Applications”, pp 113-118, University of Toronto , August.

Dann Z, Poolton J & Barclay I (1996), “Improving Competitiveness and Responsiveness via the Virtual Organisation”, Proceedings of the IEMC 96 Conference, “Managing Virtual Enterprises”, pp 57-62, Vancouver , August.

Dann Z, Poolton J, Barclay I & Haigh MJ (1995) Keynote address, “A Structured Concurrent Engineering Approach to Friction Material Development”, The Society of Automobile Engineers’ Conference, pp 47-54, New Orleans, October. 

Theses:

Dann Z, (2006), PhD Thesis, “Product Complexity: Its Impact and on Management of New Product Development and Practical Application”, Liverpool John Moores University

Dann Z, (1996) M. Phil Thesis, “Development of a Novel Method of Manufacturing Ceramics”, University of Birmingham

Publicly available learning materials:

Dann Z. (2006), “Structured Framework for Enterprise Development,” Higher Education Academy for Bioscience, http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/tdf/dann.htm

Grants:

2005 Enterprise Innovation Centre (EIC) -Technical Support for Business Start-ups in Merseyside

Targets: 73 start ups, £850K NVA over 3 years

Value: £1,595,000 over 3 years up to Aug 2008 (Joint grant holder with Prof. Barclay)

2004 ‘Structured Framework for Enterprise Development’

Learning material development for HEA in Bioscience: Value £2,250

2002 ‘Quality Management’ on line learning. Learning materials development for Master in Enterprise (M.ENT), North West Consortium of Universities Value £10,000