Centre for Finance, Governance, and Sustainable Growth
Digital innovation
We view digital transformation as more than adopting new technologies—it is a fundamental rethinking of how businesses create, deliver, and sustain value. It demands new approaches to data collection, usage, and protection, shifting from episodic interactions to dynamic, real-time engagement. This shift is essential for accountability, trust-building, risk management, investment attraction, and achieving positive environmental outcomes.
Our research focuses on:
- Harnessing emerging technologies to redefine competition and drive industry-wide innovation.
- Developing practical strategies to help firms overcome resource and integration challenges critical to economic growth and resilience.
- Equipping organizations with the skills and tools necessary for agility, innovation, and digital readiness.
Through our work, we aim to empower businesses, shape competitive industries, and inform policy development to support sustainable digital transformation and long-term economic success.
Lead: Professor Maggie Zeng
Our experts
- Professor Marcel Ausloos
- Dr Ning Baines
- Professor Ana Cristina Costa
- Dr Abdul Jabbar
- Dr Jinfeng Lu
- Dr Mahmoud Marzouk
- Dr Md Imtiaz Mostafiz
- Dr Linh Nguyen
- Dr Margaret Nuttall
- Dr Bo Pan
- Professor Mohamed Shaban
- Dr Jacob Seifert
- Dr Neslihan Suzen
- Dr Li Xiao
- Professor Ania Zalewska
- Professor Maggie Zeng
- Dr Hao Zheng
- Dr Ruoying Zhou
Selected outputs
- Ghosh, S., Hughes, M., Hughes, P., Hodgkinson, I., 2025, , Technovation
- Lam, W., Seifert, J., 2025, Competition, Data Sharing and Secure Hardware Adoption, Working paper
- Costa, A.C; Ahmed, S.A., Anderson, N.R., 2025, , European Management Journal,
- Apostolidis, C., Devine, A., Jabbar, A., Christofi, M., 2025, Ctrl+ Alt+ Sustain: The role of Algorithmic and Organisational Trust in Sustainable Digital Transformation, Business Process Management Journal
- Jabbar, A., Apostolidis, C., Baines, N., Devine, A., Christofi, M., Trivedi, S., 2024, Help those helping others - facilitating digitalisation and virtualisation in non-profit organisations through University-Industry Collaborations, Journal of Technology Transfer
- Jabbar, A., Akhtar, P., Ali, S.I., 2024, The interplay between blockchain and big data analytics for enhancing supply chain value creation in micro, small, and medium enterprises. Annals of Operations Research
- Bhudia, A., Cartwright, A., Cartwright, E., Cremer, F., Meurs, T., Samson, P., Seifert, J., Shannon, D., Sheehan, B., 2024, , Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security Report
- Baines, N., Klangboonkrong, T., Smith, H. L., 2024, Exploring product/service innovation process in UK: university spin-offs from practice-based lens. Journal of Technology Transfer 49(2), 715-739.
- Eccles, P., Grout, P.A., Siciliani, P., Zalewska, A., 2023, , Bank of England Staff Working Paper 1039,
- Jabbar, A., Geebren, A., Hussain, Z., Dani, S., & Ul-Durar, S., 2023, Investigating individual privacy within CBDC: A privacy calculus perspective, Research in International Business and Finance
- Lam, W., Seifert, J., 2023, , Journal of Industrial Economics 71(1), 143-175,
- Lam, W., Seifert, J., 2023, , ESRC Digital Security by Design Social Science (Discribe) Hub+ Research Report
- Lam, W., Seifert, J., 2023, , ESRC Discribe Hub+ Policy Briefing
- Ghosh, S., Hughes, M., Hughes, P., Hodgkinson, I.R., 2022, , Technovation,
- Eccles, P., Grout, P.A., Siciliani, P., Zalewska, A., 2021, , Bank of England Staff Working Paper 930,
- Ritala, P., Bayere, A., Hughes, M., Kraus, S., 2021, , Technological Forecasting and Social Change,
- Lam, W., Seifert, J., 2021, , ESRC Digital Security by Design Social Science (Discribe) Hub+ Research Report,