Dr Leandro Sepulveda

Principal Researcher -Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research

Department: Business School

Contact

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 6563
E-mail: L.Sepulveda@mdx.ac.uk

Qualifications

PhD in Economics. University of Durham, United Kingdom
MA in Economics and Industrial Development. National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS) and National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina
BA in Sociology. University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina

Research Interests

Social enterprise, third sector, social economy and development
Cultural diversity, enterprise and socio-economic development
Social and public sector innovation
Informal economy, cultures of informality and development
Industrial development policies in developing countries

Teaching Interests

Lecturer inEnterprise and Small Business(Middlesex University Business School)

Visiting lecturer in several universities including University of Cambridge (UK), University of Ferrara (Italy), and University of Buenos Aires and National University of General Sarmiento (Argentina)

PhD SUPERVISION

Leandro currently supervises three research students:

Isaac Oduro Amoako

Thesis title: ‘SME Exporting Determinants: The Power of Institutions on Networking and Performance in a Developing Country’

Email: odumako56@yahoo.co.uk

Sara Calvo

Thesis title: ‘Ethnic minority related social enterprise and the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Legacy’

Email: S.Calvo@mdx.ac.uk

Daniel Ozarow

Thesis title: ‘Study of the Phenomenon of New Poors in Argentina’

Email: D.Ozarow@mdx.ac.uk

Biography

Biography

Leandro has over fifteen years experience on policy-oriented research specialising in enterprise, small businesses and economic development. His current research interests include social enterprise, third sector and public sector innovation, cultural diversity, enterprise and economic development, and SMEs and enterprise clusters in both developed and developing countries. His work in the UK has been commissioned by public agencies including H.M. Treasury, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Office for the Civil Society (former OTS), Business Links, and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the European Social Fund EQUAL Programme.Leandro is currently a research fellow in the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC), a new Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded research programme that aims to create an improved understanding of the key patterns, processes and impacts of developments in the third sector and social enterprises. Heworked in Latin America as an external consultant for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and conducted several studies on SMEs, industrial clusters and local and regional economic development. Leandro has authored a number of reports, book chapters and journal articles, including in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Environment and Planning A, Local Economy, Policy & Politics, Regional Studies, and Social Enterprise Journal.

Academic Refereed Journal Articles

Lyon, F. and Sepulveda, L. (forthcoming 2012) Social Enterprise Support Policies: distinctions and challenges, In Michael Schaper and Robert Blackburn (Eds) Government, SMEs and Entrepreneurship Development: Policy, Practice and Challenges.
Syrett, S. and Sepulveda, L. (forthcoming) Diversity and urban governance: economic development in the global city, European Urban and Regional Studies.
Sepulveda, L., Syrett, S. and Lyon, F. (2011) Population Superdiversity and New Migrant Enterprise: The case of London, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, vol 23 (7-8): 469-497.
Syrett, S. and Sepulveda, L. (2011) Realising the diversity dividend: Population diversity and urban economic development, Environment and Planning A. vol 43:487-504.
Sepulveda, L., Syrett, S. and Calvo, S. (2010) Social Enterprise and Ethnic Minorities. Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC), Working Paper 48. http://www.tsrc.ac.uk/Publications/tabid/500/Default.aspx
Sepulveda, L. (2009) Outsider, missing link or panacea? Some reflections about the place of social enterprise (with)in and in relation to the Third Sector, Third Sector Research Centre, Working Paper No 15.
Lyon, F. and Sepulveda, L. (2009) Mapping social enterprises: past approaches, challenges and future directions, Social Enterprise Journal, Vol 5:1, pp. 83-94.
Sepulveda, L. (2008) ‘Spatialising industrial policies: A view from the South, Regional Studies, Vol 42:10, pp. 1385-1397.
Sepulveda, L., Syrett, S. and Lyon, F. (2008) New Ethnic Minority Business Communities in Britain: Challenges of diversity and informality for the UK business and policy frameworks, Working Paper Series No 1, Social Policy Research Centre, Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University.
Lyon, F., Sepulveda, L., and Syrett, S. (2007) Enterprising refugees: contributions and challenges in deprived urban areas, Local Economy. vol. 22, no.4, pp.362-375.
Sepulveda, L. and Syrett, S. (2007) Out of the Shadows? Formalisation Approaches to Informal Economic Activity, Policy & Politics, Vol 35, number 1, pp. 87-104.
Sepulveda, L. and Amin, A. (2006) Decentralising Industrial Policies: Threat or Opportunity in Developing Countries? In Patrizio Bianchi and Sandrine Labory (Eds) International Handbook of Industrial Policy, Edward Elgar Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, pp. 321-341.
Sepúlveda, L. (2001) Construcción regional y desarrollo productivo en la economía de la globalidad [Region building and productive development in the global economy], Estudios y Perspectivas N°3, Economic Commission For Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) United Nations, Argentina, pp.1-84. Available on the Internet www.eclac.cl/argentina

Official Reports:

2011 External evaluation of the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) Right to Request Programme, commissioned by the SSE and Department of Health
2010 The impact of the minimum wages on the youth labour market: An international literature review for the Low Pay Commission, commissioned by the Low Pay Commission (LPC) and led by Professors Richard Croucher (Middlesex University) and Geoffrey White (University of Greenwich).
2009-2010 Innovation Exchange Brokerage Model Evaluation, funded by Cabinet Office. http://www.innovationunit.org/images/stories/files/pdf/ie_evaluation_report.pdf
2009-2011 Social Enterprise Investment Fund Evaluation, funded by the Department of Health. With University of Birmingham, University of Oxford and Shared Intelligence
2008-2013Social Enterprise Research Capacity Building Cluster, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Office of the Third Sector.
2008-2013 Third Sector Research Centre with University of Birmingham – programme of work on social enterprise.
2008 Review of research and data on SMEs and public service contracts (H.M. Treasury and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) (currently BIS)
2008‘Mapping the regional social enterprise sector’, commissioned by the South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA). Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research and Shared Intelligence.
2007 ‘Access to employment and enterprise opportunities for newly arrived Latin Americans in London: Assessing needs and skills’, commissioned by Celebrating Enterprise – City University and Carnaval del Pueblo Association through the European Social Fund Equal Programme, October 2007. Available on the Internet:http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/ceedr/
2007‘Formalising new arrival enterprises: Challenges of new ethnic entrepreneurship for business support policy’, commissioned by Business Link For London through the European Social Fund Equal Programme, with Stephen Syrett and Fergus Lyon, June 2007. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/ceedr/
2006‘Refugee, new arrivals and enterprise: their contributions and constraints’, commissioned by Small Business Service (Stage I – 2005) and Business Link For London through the European Social Fund Equal Programme (Stage II- 2006), with Fergus Lyon, Stephen Syrett and Andrea Botero-J, June 2006. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/ceedr/

Conferences

2011 International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC), London South bank University, 12^th to 13^th September 201, London, UK. Paper title: ‘Social enterprise and ethnic minorities: Rhetoric and realities’
2011 Third Global Conference on Economic Geography, 28^th June to 1^st July, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Paper title: ‘Social enterprise and alternative economic futures: from vanguard to guards van’
2010 OLMEC-CLG Inspiring Change Conference 2010: Big Society and localism through successful social enterprise. Paper entitled: ‘Social Enterprise and Ethnic Minorities: reflections on the research agenda, London, UK, 29^th November
2010 AURIL and TSRC Using Knowledge For Social Good: The ethics of knowledge exchange in the third sector. Paper entitled: ‘The ethics of knowledge creation and exchange in the social enterprise context, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 27^th October
2010 International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) 9^th International Conference. Paper entitled: ‘Outsider, missing link or panacea? Some reflections about the place of social enterprise (with)in and in relation to the Third Sector, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey, 7-10 July
2010 Centre for Research on Ethnicity, Nationalism and Multiculturalism (CRONEM) 6^th Annual Conference ‘Living Together: Civic, Political and Cultural Engagement Among Migrants, Minorities and National Populations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Paper entitled: ’Social Enterprises: New Forms of Engagement or Exclusion for Ethnic Minorities? University of Surrey, UK, 29-30 June
2010 Migrant Organisations' Development Agency (MODA) and Social Policy Research Centre (Middlesex University) event on Migrant and minority community organisations: funding, sustainability and ways forward. Paper entitled: ‘Social Enterprises: New forms of inclusion or exclusion for ethnic minorities’, London, UK, 8^th June
2010 Regional Studies Annual International Conference. Paper entitled: ‘Realising the Diversity Dividend: Population Diversity and City Competitiveness, Pécs, Hungary, 24-26 May 2010.
2009 15th NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference. Presentation entitled: ‘Outsider, missing link or panacea? Some reflections about the place of social enterprise (with)in and in relation to the Third Sector’, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 7-8 September 2009.
2008 5^th UK Social Enterprise Research Conference SERC 2008. Presentation entitled: ‘Mapping social enterprises: Past approaches, challenges and future directions’ (with Fergus Lyon), Oxford Said Business School, Oxford, UK, 26-27 June.
2008 International Workshop ‘Migrant Entrepreneurship / Self-employment: Aspects with Regard to Sustainability’. Presentation entitled: ‘Migrant Entrepreneurship, super diversity and competitiveness in global London’. Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Hamburg, Germany, 10-11^th April.
2007 Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship 30th Conference ‘International Entrepreneurship: stimulating smarter successful small businesses world-wide’. Presentation entitled: ‘Minority Businesses Diaspora Interchange’. Glasgow, Scotland, 7-9 November.
2007 European Urban Research Association (EURA) 10^th Anniversary Conference 2007 ‘The Vital City’. Presentation entitled ‘Enterprise and Diversity: Competitiveness and Cohesion in the Global City’ (with Stephen Syrett), University of Glasgow, Scotland, 12-14 September.
2007 First International Colloquium on Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Management. Presentation entitled ‘New Ethnic Minority Business Communities in Britain: Challenges of diversity for business support policy’, University of Bradford, UK, 22-23 March.
2006 European Urban and Regional Studies (EURS) 6^th Annual Conference. Presentation entitled ‘Refugees and enterprise: Tracking diverse economies and socio-economic inclusion underneath the global city’, University of Roskilde, Denmark, 21-24 September.
2006 Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference 2006. Presentation entitled ‘Refugees, enterprise and cohesion underneath the global city’, Royal Geographical Society, London, 30th Aug- 1st September.
2006 ‘Refugee and Employment: Challenging barriers and exploring pathways’ Conference, London Metropolitan University, WorkingLives Research Institute, London, 6th July.
2006 EUNIP (European Network of Industrial Policy) 2006 International Conference. Presentation entitled ‘Spatialising industrial policies: a view from the South’, Limerick University, Limerick, Republic of Ireland, 20-22 June.
2006-2005 Small Business Service & Business Link For London. Presentations of research project ‘Refugee, New Arrivals and Enterprise: their contributions and constraints’ (June and Dec 2005; April and July 2006).

Languages spoken

Spanish