Contact Dr Orsolya Ihasz
Background
Prior to her research, she spent 12 years in entrepreneurship education at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School and worked as a policy advocate with the Department for International Development, the EU DG Youth, and the UN, to promote youth-participation within policy. She believes that access to healthcare and knowledge is a basic human right and (responsible) innovation is a great vehicle to support this call.
Current activities
Orsolya Ihasz is a lecturer in entrepreneurship and a Fellow at the Foundation for Science and Technology. Her research interest focuses on (responsible) innovation management and social impact measurement especially in public health. She acts as programme lead to Ideas to Innovation (i2i) aimed at the researchers and early-career researcher community across discipline to support entrepreneurial ventures geared towards finding solutions to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She is also an external advisor to the WHO on the scaling digitally enabled health interventions for tackling NCDs globally.
Publications
Books
- Vaiciukynaite E, Ihasz O, Portyanko S & Vyakarnam S. (2023). Transforming a Highly Tactile Entrepreneurship Course “Ideas to Innovation” to an Entirely Online Delivery Model: Lessons for Theory and Practice In Artificiality and Sustainability in Entrepreneurship. Springer Nature.
- Vaiciukynaite E, Ihasz O, Portyanko S & Vyakarnal S. (2022). Transforming a highly tactile entrepreneurship course “ideas to innovation” to an entirely online delivery model: lessons for theory and practice In Adams R, Grichnik D, Pundziene A & Volkmann C (eds), Artificiality and sustainability in entrepreneurship. FGF Studies in Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Springer, Cham.