ProfessorAnne ter Wal

Anne ter Wal is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Imperial  Business School.

 

Anne’s research explores how networks help turn bold technological visions into market reality. Working closely with leading multinationals, deep‑tech ventures and other start‑ups, he studies how scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs build relationships that give them access to new ideas – and how they then struggle, and sometimes succeed, in fusing what’s technologically possible with what customers and society actually need. 

 

From 2017 to 2023, Anne led a large‑scale EU‑funded research programme, "Networking for Innovation", which followed entrepreneurs and corporate innovators as they built and leveraged their networks to achieve business and innovation success. He also has a long‑standing interest in the management of creativity – in particular how bootlegging and other deviant, under‑the‑radar forms of creativity can drive valuable new products and services inside established organisations.

 

Anne holds a doctoral degree in Economic Geography from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His work has been published in leading journals in management, innovation studies and economic geography, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of Economic Geography, Economic Geography, Regional Studies and Industry & Innovation.

 

He currently serves as Deputy Editor (Macro) at the Academy of Management Journal and sits on the editorial review boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Research Policy.