Andrew Burke
Director of the Bettany Centre, Cranfield
School of Management
Professor Andrew Burke is the founder and Director of the Bettany Centre for
Entrepreneurial Performance and Economics at Cranfield University. The Centre
manages all of the School of Management’s entrepreneurship activities including
executive education, research, graduate programmes, technology transfer and
networking/practitioner events. Andrew is also the Director of Graduate Programmes
and a member of the Executive at Cranfield School of Management.
Professor Burke publishes research extensively on entrepreneurial finance, strategy and
performance in some of the leading international journals including the Harvard
Business Review, the Journal of Management Studies, Regional Studies, the
International Journal of Industrial Organization, Small Business Economics, and the
Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics. The research findings have been featured in
the media including BBC (Breakfast Television & the Working Lunch) as well as national
broadsheets such as the Sunday Times.
Andrew has acted as a consultant for organisations such as the European Commission,
Business Link UK, GESAC (EU), Forbairt (the Irish Industrial Development Authority IDA), Hudson, Schlumberger, Selex-Galileo, GCI UK, Bank of Ireland International
Banking, and the Irish Music Rights Organisation.