Kenneth Amaeshi is a Research Fellow at Warwick Business School. His research focuses on commercialization of intellectual property assets; governance of global innovation networks; R&D partnerships; sustainable innovation; multinational corporations and corporate social responsibility in developing economies. Prior to joining the academia, he worked as a management consultant to multinational corporations in oil and gas, financial services, telecommunication and aviation industries in Africa and Europe. He has recently completed a research project on The Dynamics of Networked Innovation: Barriers to Knowledge Transfer, which compared the US and UK institutional contexts of scientific entrepreneurship and financing of early stage science. The research project was jointly funded by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (http://www.cambridge-mit.org) and the ESRC. He is currently studying the exploitation strategy of an EU aerospace R&D network (www.vivaceproject.com/) in conjunction with the Warwick Manufacturing Group.