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Dr IAN HEYWOOD

Dr IAN HEYWOOD The University of Aberdeen Business School

Senior Teaching Fellow work +44 (0)1224 273104 pref i.heywood@abdn.ac.uk http://uk.linkedin.com/in/drianheywood pref S31 Business School 2nd Floor Edward Wright Building Dunbar Street Old Aberdeen AB24 3QY

Senior Teaching Fellow

BSc, PhD, FITOL

Personal Details

Telephone:	+44 (0)1224 273104
Email:	i.heywood@abdn.ac.uk
Personal website:	http://uk.linkedin.com/in/drianheywood
Address:	S31 Business School 2nd Floor Edward Wright Building Dunbar Street Old Aberdeen AB24 3QY

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Biography

Dr Ian Heywood is a Senior Teaching Fellow in The Business School at the University of Aberdeen and MBA Programme Director. Ian co-ordinates three Business School courses including New Venture Creation, Business Development and Leadership. He also teaches Business Strategy.

Prior to joining the Business School at the University of Aberdeen Ian was the Director and founder of The Ideas Academy Ltd which specialised in helping organisations use their internal expertise to generate, resource and deliver new business ideas. Ian has worked with a range of organisations across the not-for-proft, public and private sector, he is especially interested helping organisations develop new business propositions based on location based services (GIS & GPS), Internet and mobile technologies. Ian is an experienced facilitator and educator who has worked with teams at all levels in the organisation. Ian has extensive knowledge and practical experience of delivering training and development in both face to face and on-line settings, having previously been Director of the Centre for Open and Distance Learning at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Prior to starting his own business Ian was Director of Growing Business and Skills with Scottish Enterprise Grampian where he had leadership responsibility for the organisation's portfolio of 300 high growth companies, several of which were third sector organisations.

He is currently Vice Chair of Aberdeen College Board of Management and Visiting Professor in e-Learning at the University of Abertay, Dundee.

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Research Interests

Entrepreneurship on the Edge

Communities at the margins of society are sometimes the most entrepreneurial. But why is this? Is it necessity or opportunity that drives the people who live in these communities towards a culture of entrepreneurship? And what, if any, lessons can the more mainstream communities learn from the entrepreneurial dynamics that pervade these ‘regions on the edge’?

Geo-Social Business Applications

The integration of the web with mobile telecoms and GPS has created new oppprtunities for business development. In recent years several inovative business models have been developed which exploit knowledge about a customer's 'location'. See for example SongKick . But how are these ideas derivied? what are the ethics associated with their use? and how do they make money?

This area of research build of previous work carried out by Ian and culminated in the publication of the leading international text book An Introduction to Geographical Information Systems (now in it's 4th edition). The book was jointly authored by Sarah Cornelius (Aberdeen University) and Steve Carver (Leeds University)

Other themes under this rearch area include Business applications of location based services (Geographical Information Systems - GIS, Global Positioning Systems - GPS) and geo-referenced social media technology).

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Current Research

Business applications of location based service (Geographical Information Systems - GIS, Global Positioning Systems - GPS) and geo-referenced social media technology).

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