Professor Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada

Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
Department of Strategy, Marketing and Innovation
Small Business Research Centre
Kingston Business School
Kingston Hill

Professor of Entrepreneurship

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Professor Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada leads the Responsible Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (RISE) research excellence hub at Kingston Business School with a vision to advance scholarship, integrate academic insight with business strategy, and inspire ethical leadership in business and society.

He is a Research Fellow at the Jackstädt Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Germany, an Expert Fellow at the Southampton India Centre, a Steward at the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Society of Arts. Previously, he has worked at the University of Southampton, Aston Business School, Max Planck Institute of Economics, University of Goettingen, the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and held visiting fellowships at Harvard Business School and Kellogg School of Management.

His interdisciplinary research interests are at the intersection of entrepreneurship, strategy, innovation, AI/digitalisation, and sustainability. He was awarded the Otto-Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society (Germany), the Inaugural DRUID Best Dissertation Award (Denmark), and the Kauffman Foundation Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management (USA). His research has been supported by grants from the Max Planck Society, British Academy, EPSRC Impact Acceleration, Bracknell Forest Council, and overseas research funding agencies. He has supervised and mentored 10 PhD candidates to completion and acted as an examiner at more than 15 PhD examinations in the UK and abroad.

Professor Pawan has taught a wide range of modules in entrepreneurship, strategy, innovation, and business growth at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and research methods for PhD students. His commitment to education and teaching excellence has consistently led to outstanding student evaluations of around 4.5/5 for more than a decade. He was nominated twice for Vice-Chancellor awards for teaching excellence at Southampton. At Aston, he was nominated for Economic Research Network's outstanding teacher award.

Committed to making a positive impact, he co-founded iPowerz, a digital social enterprise platform aimed at fast-tracking microentrepreneurship and small business growth reflecting his passion for leveraging technology to drive positive change in communities and economies. He was included as a Steward at the Council for Inclusive Capitalism for this initiative.

He has a PhD in Economics (summa cum laude) from the University of Göttingen, sponsored by a full scholarship of the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Germany. His doctoral advisors were Professors David Audretsch, Clarivate Citation laureate 2021, and the late Stephan Klasen, a former student of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. He is an alumnus of the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning and Narendrapur Rama Krishna Mission, two revered Indian institutions founded on the ancient Advaita philosophy.

Beyond academia, Professor Pawan actively advises leading businesses and engages in nonprofit work as the founder/trustee of several charitable organisations, including Share-a-Meal, India Knowledge Consortium, and the Sri Sathya Sai Charitable Trust, UK.

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Dr rer pol (Goettingen)
MSc (Mathematics)
BSc (Hons)
PG Certificate in Professional Practice

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We have spent thirty years asking the wrong people to fund universities.: It is time for a new social contract

Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan, 2026, Higher Education Policy Institute Blog, Published

Professor Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada

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