Ted Fuller came to Lincoln as Head of the Business School in 2008, and took up the Faculty Research role in January 2011. He has practiced entrepreneurship in the business and university sectors. In 1968 he started a manufacturing business at the age of 19 with his father. He qualified as a management accountant in 1975 and left his first family business in 1981 to teach in Higher Education after taking a Master’s at the University of Warwick. He spent nearly twenty years at the University of Durham Business School (DUBS), first in the Small Business Centre from which he established two research centres; in Knowledge Systems and later the Foresight Research Centre. He also created a spin off high technology software business in Durham in 1990 from his research in expert systems. Before coming to Lincoln, Ted was Assistant Dean for Enterprise at Teesside Business School.

Teaching

Ted lectures on entrepreneurship, small business management, foresight and research. He is the University champion for Principles of Responsible Management Education.

Research Interests and Expertise

Ted’s research interests relate to the ways in which business and society are sustained through entrepreneurship and innovation. He works with international collaborators on a variety of themes that add to human knowledge. Currently his research includes:

• Theoretical development in small business and entrepreneurship, value creation, futures thinking and foresight
• Empirical studies on sustainability, international entrepreneurship; innovation and value creation in business and society, emergence of disruptive ventures in high velocity sectors
• Strategic studies in Enterprise Futures, i.e. global strategic issues for enterprise policy and entrepreneurship; including emerging technologies, regional policy and social responsibility

Publications (Indicative Publications)

Fuller, T., L. Warren, et al. (In Press). Creative methodologies for understanding a creative industry. in Entrepreneurship and the Creative Economy: Process, Policy and Practice. Eds C. Henry and A. deBruin, Edward Elgar.
Roberts, J. and T. Fuller (2010). "International Business: Past, Present and Futures." Futures; Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies 42(9): p901-909
Fuller, T., L. Warren, et al. (2010). "Rethinking business models and value creating systems." Leonardo; Journal of the international Society for the Art, Sciences and Technology 43(1): 2.
Warren, L. and T. Fuller (2009). "Contrasting approaches to preparedness: A reflection on two case studies." International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems 5(3): 60-71.
Fuller, T. and L. Warren (2009). The anticipation of value as a stabiliser of ephemeral emergents. Fumee 2 Workshop on Understanding Anticipatory Systems. Lincoln, UK, University of Lincoln.
Fuller, T. and K. Loogma (2009). "Constructing Futures; a social constructionist perspective on foresight methodology." Futures; Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies 41(2).
Fuller, T., L. Warren, P Argyle (2008). "Sustaining entrepreneurial business: A complexity perspective on processes that produce emergent practice." The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 4(1): 1-17.
Fuller, T. and T. Barbosa (2007). Relationship Strategies; Explaining Idiosyncrasies In Entrepreneurs’ Internationalization; (Not Traits, Not Rates, But ‘Mates’). Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Madrid, Spain, Babson College.
Fuller, T. and Y. Tian (2006). "Social and Symbolic Capital and Responsible Entrepreneurship: an Empirical Investigation of SME Narratives." Journal of Business Ethics 67(3): 287-304.

Professional Memberships/Interests

Consulting Editor, Futures: Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies
Visiting Professor: University of Malta (Edward de Bono Institute)
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Fellow, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA)
Member of: British Academy of Management, Genesis Project Senate, Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, International Council for Small Business, World Futures Studies Federation
Member of Examination Board of Institute of Directors