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Victor Schiller

Research Student

Bayes Business School, Faculty of Management

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Bunhill Row

Postal address

Bayes Business School
106 Bunhill Row
London
EC1Y 8TZ
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Victor is a PhD student at Bayes Business School. His focus is on entrepreneurial ecosystems and entrepreneur support processes. He is interested in exploring micro and nested entrepreneurial ecosystems, Minimum Viable Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (MVEE)s and Cross Ecosystem Resource Sharing (CERS). Through his research, he hopes to be able to inform current policy and provide innovative strategies to foster entrepreneurship in areas where it is most vital, catalyzing transformation within communities.

Victor started his entrepreneurial career in the early 1980’s and over the last several decades he has started, built, and sold a range of technology related companies. He holds seven technology patents and is now involved with R Cubed Group, a private equity fund investing in equities, fixed income, real estate, and strategic investments including early-stage companies.

Among other corporate and non-profit boards Mr. Schiller served on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) IDEAS Global Challenge Advisory Board. MIT IDEAS supports innovation and entrepreneurship as public service by connecting students with the passion and talent to improve the world with the experience and resources of the MIT community worldwide. Mr. Schiller also lectures, mentors and has done a TEDx talk on his social enterprise work at MIT.

Qualifications

  • Visiting post-graduate student - Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, United States, Sep 1986 – Jan 1987
  • MBA, DePaul University, United States, Mar 1979 – Mar 1981
  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States, Sep 1974 – Mar 1979

Languages

English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review).

Expertise

Primary topics

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management

Geographic Areas

  • Africa
  • Americas - North
  • Europe
  • Europe - Eastern

Research students

1st supervisor

  • Dr Alessandro Giudici, Reader in Strategy

2nd supervisor

  • Nettra Pan, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

Publications

Chapter

  1. Victor, S. and Schiller, V. (2024). Leveraging Business Partnerships. In O'Regan, N. (Ed.), From Purpose to Impact The University and Business Partnership Routledge. ISBN 978-1-03-260363-6.

Conference paper/proceedings

  1. Schiller, V. Alternative Design Theories and the Temporal Nature of Top-Down Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Support Processes: Implications for Resource-Constrained Emerging Ecosystems in Transition. New Business Models 2023.doi:10.26481/mup.2302.06

Patents (7)

  1. Schiller, V. Platform and system for the automated transcription of electronic online content from a mostly visual to mostly aural format and associated method of use. Patent no. 11,386,884
  2. Schiller, V. System, report, and method for generating natural language news-based stories. Patent no. 8,676,691
  3. Schiller, V. System, report, and method for generating natural language news-based stories. Patent no. 8,494,944
  4. Schiller, V. System, report, and computer-readable medium for analyzing a stock portfolio. Patent no. 8,463,695
  5. Schiller, V. Systems, device, and methods for searching. Patent no. 7,865,496
  6. Schiller, V. System, report, and method for generating natural language news-based stories. Patent no. 7,856,390
  7. Schiller, V. System, report, and computer-readable medium for analyzing a stock portfolio. Patent no. 7,716,116

Professional activities

Events/conferences (14)

  1. EURAM 2024 - EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT. (Conference) Bath, UK (2024). Review Panel. Invited speaker.
    Paper: Transition Economy Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Emergence: A Review, Insights, and Future Research Directions
    Author: Victor Schiller
  2. Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Spring School. (Workshop) Stuttgart, Germany (2024). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Transition Economy Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Emergence: A Review, Insights, and Future Research Directions
    Author: Victor Schiller
  3. University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN) Conference. (Conference) Madrid, Spain (2024). Invited speaker.
    Paper: How Universities Can Leverage Business Partnerships To Strengthen Student Entrepreneurship Incubators
    Author: Victor Schiller
  4. Journal of Business Venturing/Design PDW workshop. (Workshop) Bath, UK (2024). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Designing Entrepreneur Support Processes in Resource-Constrained, Top-Down Initiated Ecosystems
    Author: Victor Schiller
  5. Creative Spark - Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Theory, Evidence and Practice. Berlin, Germany (2024). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Transition Economy Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Emergence: A Review, Insights, and Future Research Directions
    Author: Victor Schiller
  6. New York University (NYU) Economics Department Presenation. (Seminar) (2023). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Designing Entrepreneur Support Processes in Resource-Constrained, Top-Down Initiated Ecosystems
    Author: Victor Schiller
  7. Effectuation Conference 2023. (Conference) Gdansk, Poland (2023). Review Panel. Invited speaker.
    Paper: Alternative Design Theories and the Temporal Nature of Top-Down Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Support Processes: Implications for Resource-Constrained Emerging Ecosystems in Transition
    Author: Schiller, V.
  8. ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH SUMMER SCHOOL. (Conference) (2023). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Designing Entrepreneur Support Processes in Resource-Constrained, Top-Down Initiated Ecosystems
    Author: Victor Schiller
  9. New Business Models (NBM) 2023 Confernce. (Conference) (2023). Review Panel. Invited speaker.
    Paper: Designing Entrepreneur Support Processes in Resource-Constrained, Top-Down Initiated Ecosystems
    Author: Victor Schiller
  10. 9th ENTERYNG Workshop. (Workshop) Bergamo, Italy (2023). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Designing Entrepreneur Support Processes in Resource-Constrained, Top-Down Initiated Ecosystems
    Author: Victor Schiller
  11. University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN) Conference. (Conference) (2023). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Designing Entrepreneur Support Processes in Resource-Constrained, Top-Down Initiated Ecosystems
    Author: Victor Schiller
  12. 6th Paper Development Seminar. (Seminar) Seville, Spain (2023). Review Panel. Invited speaker.
    Paper: Designing Entrepreneur Support Processes in Resource-Constrained, Top-Down Initiated Ecosystems
    Author: Victor Schiller
  13. Entrepreneurship as Practice (EAP) conference. (Conference) Leuphana University, Luneburg, Germany (2023). Invited speaker.
    Paper: Designing Entrepreneur Support Processes in Resource-Constrained, Top-Down Initiated Ecosystems
    Author: Victor Schiller
  14. Effectuation Conference 2022. (Conference) Naples, Italy (2022). Review Panel. Invited speaker.
    Paper: Orchestrating emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in uncertain environments: Can effectual design principles lead to improved financial sustainability?
    Author: Schiller, V.