Introduction
Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra is Reader in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School. She is the author of The Venture Capital State: The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2018) and Inclusive Innovation (co-authored with Alex Glennie and Courtney Savie Lawrence, Routledge, 2022). Before joining King's College London in 2014, Robyn was a Senior Research Fellow, in charge of venture policy, at the Coller Institute of Venture at Tel Aviv University. Robyn’s research focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship, corporate sustainability and entrepreneurial clusters and has been published in highly-ranked peer-reviewed journals, including International Affairs, Journal of Development Studies, New Political Economy, Regulation & Governance, and Socio-Economic Review, and International Affairs. She holds a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Research Grant (2019-2023). Robyn received her BA from the University of Michigan (2003), was a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (2012), and obtained her MSc and PhD in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics & Political Science. She is Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
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Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra is Reader in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School. She is the author of The Venture Capital State: The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2018) and Inclusive Innovation (co-authored with Alex Glennie and Courtney Savie Lawrence, Routledge, 2022). Before joining King's College London in 2014, Robyn was a Senior Research Fellow, in charge of venture policy, at the Coller Institute of Venture at Tel Aviv University. Robyn’s research focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship, corporate sustainability and entrepreneurial clusters and has been published in highly-ranked peer-reviewed journals, including International Affairs, Journal of Development Studies, New Political Economy, Regulation & Governance, and Socio-Economic Review, and International Affairs. She holds a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Research Grant (2019-2023). Robyn received her BA from the University of Michigan (2003), was a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (2012), and obtained her MSc and PhD in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics & Political Science. She is Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
Fields of expertise: Economic policy / inclusive economic development, Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion, Science policy, technology and innovation policy, Sustainable Development Goals