Contact Dr Hanning Shi
- Email: Hanning.Shi@cranfield.ac.uk
Background
Dr Hanning Shi is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship, Cranfield School of Management. Her interdisciplinary research brings together engineering, entrepreneurship and innovation management. She studies how innovation ecosystems evolve in high-tech industries, with a particular interest in how firms collaborate to commercialise new technologies and scale deep tech ventures.
She holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Cardiff University, as well as an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research traced the evolution of the global semiconductor industry. She spent six years at one of the world’s leading semiconductor consulting firms, serving clients included Intel, ASML, TSMC and a range of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Through REWIRE, a project funded by Innovate UK, she works with manufacturing SMEs to identify the data and skills they need to improve resource and energy efficiency. Her current research also explores how AI can support green innovation in manufacturing.
Research opportunities
- Innovation ecosystems and collaboration across industry value chains
- Technology entrepreneurship and the emergence of new industries
- Commercialisation and scaling of deep tech ventures
- AI adoption and organisational capability development
- Green innovation and resource and energy efficiency in manufacturing SMEs
- Evolution of the global semiconductor and electronics industries