Louisa Anne Huxtable-Thomas

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at Swansea University

This paper presents a literature review on innovation adoption in healthcare. Healthcare is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing industries, driven by demands such as ageing populations, increasing co-morbidity, and improving technologies. Innovation continues to be a key driver in balancing cost containment and improving quality for heal...

Design thinking (DT) has been claimed to hold promise for bringing education into the twenty-first century. Many entrepreneurship educators are increasingly integrating DT into their entrepreneurship curricula. Thus, there has been a growing interest among entrepreneurial educators to understand the value and the conceptual interface of DT within e...

(Self-)reflection is an increasingly utilised pedagogy in entrepreneurship education. This chapter conceptualises reflection as it pertains to education about, for and through entrepreneurship. It provides a review of the empirical literature, identifies some of the issues for student learning through reflection and introduces new perspectives on t...

This study queries the notion of slum as an anathema to the growth and prosperity of cities in sub-Saharan Africa. Slum tourism is discussed as an emerging intervention to address the challenge of slums in the global south. Using ethnographic account and personal reflection of 5 slum settlements and key institutions in Lusaka, a novel approach is p...

This chapter provides a detailed overview of the Malaysian economy as an introduction to the text. The chapter provides a detailed overview of the current geography and structure of the Malaysian economy followed by a history of the emergence of the nation state and its colonial history and emergence of the modern country. Entrepreneurial activity...

The existing literature considering entrepreneurial behaviour and activity within Malaysia is limited. This edited book provides an overview of entrepreneurial activity within a Malaysian content. This text offers a contemporary evaluation of entrepreneurial behaviour in Malaysia exploring aspects such as entrepreneurial ecosystems, social enterpri...

This is the author's original document from the book Entrepreneurial Activity in Malaysia, published in 2021 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-77753-1_2

(Full text available as open access from publisher) This paper examines the affordances of Reddit, a digital media platform where Users share and discuss content. The aim of the study was to understand the affordances of Reddit, and how the affordances of Reddit through various features of the platform lead to outcomes, specifically those relating...

Despite being the third largest economy in Southeast Asia, Malaysian entrepreneurial activity is under-reported in the scholarly literature. This book extends such research by examining the impact of entrepreneurship on its economy and evaluating the existing systemic problems. The Malaysian economy has benefited from the density of knowledge-based...

This book will provide a “state of the nation” evaluation regarding entrepreneurial activity within the Malaysian economy and its impact on the country as it moves towards higher-income status by 2020. Entrepreneurial activity within Malaysia is currently under reported within the academic literature despite its recent economic successes. Malaysia...

This paper presents an Open Innovation approach, AgorIP, for commercialisation of opportunities within Health & Social Care and Life Sciences, piloted in south-west Wales. This approach, supported by Welsh Government, NHS Wales, universities and private sector aims to develop new markets and innovations, where all opportunities are rigorously asses...

Entrepreneurs are key actors in the knowledge economy and are fundamental to any entrepreneurial and dynamic ecosystem. They drive change and innovation through starting new ventures, growing businesses and investing in new ideas. They spot viable opportunities, they mobilise resources, they take risks and they are action focussed. The capacity and...

South Wales has been nurturing a nascent Life Sciences cluster through initiatives including the Institute of Life Science (ILS) at Swansea University Medical School. ILS aims to provide an entrepreneurial learning environment transcending industry, health care, academia and further education. This chapter describes how efforts to develop the secto...

Purpose – The Holy Grail of leadership learning is to stimulate behavioural changes that continue beyond the learning environment into the workplace, ultimately leading to improved productivity and value. The purpose of this paper is to explore the interface between emotion and leadership learning and provides evidence from research undertaken in W...

There has been much research already conducted with regard to Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) technology companies and their management techniques; however there is still a lack of studies focusing more specifically on relationship marketing in high-technology based SMEs. This study looks to expand the research carried out by Parry et al. (2011)...

This chapter summarizes the latest studies in entrepreneurial learning in order to highlight their implications for the design of educational programs (Pittaway & Thorpe, 2012). It examines in detail the latest thinking on the subject, summarizes the key concepts and empirical contributions with a particular focus on expanding understanding of ‘sit...

Work based PhD placements are not new, but they are not common in the UK. Pedagogic research into the real-life effects of work based doctoral learning requires large enough cohorts to make useful assessments and the Prince of Wales Innovation Scholarship (POWIS) programme offers a unique on-going opportunity to do so in the UK context. The POWIS p...