Annabelle Gawer (born 1969) is a business theorist whose research concerns

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. Born in France, and educated in France and the US, she works in the UK as Chaired Professor in Digital Economy and director of the Surrey Centre of Digital Economy at the

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Education and career

Gawer was born in France, in 1969. In 1992, she earned a master's degree in applied mathematics from

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the ...

, in Paris, an engineering degree from the

Paris School of Mines Mines Paris - PSL, officially École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (until May 2022 Mines ParisTech, also known as École des mines de Paris, ENSMP, Mines de Paris, les Mines, or Paris School of Mines), is a French grande école and a c ...

, and a master's degree in

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from Stanford University in the US. She completed a Ph.D. in management of technology and innovation from the

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in 2000. She returned to France as an assistant professor of strategy and management at

INSEAD INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe ( Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East ( Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (Sa ...

Fontainebleau Fontainebleau (; ) is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located south-southeast of the centre of Paris. Fontainebleau is a sub-prefecture of the Seine-et-Marne department, and it is the seat of the ''arrondissement ...

from 2000 to 2004. From 2004 to 2016 she was an assistant professor and associate professor of strategy and innovation in the business school of the

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. She joined the University of Surrey in 2016. She headed the Department of Digital Economy, Entrepreneurship & Innovation in the Surrey Business School at the University of Surrey from 2018 to 2021. Since 2020, she has also held an affiliation as visiting professor of Strategy and Innovation in the

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at the

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Books

Gawer is a coauthor of ''Platform Leadership: How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation - Do You Have Platform Leadership?'' (with

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, Harvard Business School Press, 2002). Her

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s include: *''Platforms, Markets and Innovation'' (Edward Elgar, 2011) *''Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Platforms'' (with Jeffrey Furman, Brian S. Silverman, and Scott Stern, Emerald Publishing, 2017) *''The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power'' (with Michael A. Cusumano and

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, HarperCollins, 2019)

Recognition

Gawer was elected to the

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in 2023.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gawer, Annabelle 1969 births Living people French business theorists British business theorists Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni Mines Paris - PSL alumni Stanford University alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Academic staff of INSEAD Academics of Imperial College London Academics of the University of Surrey Fellows of the British Academy