Project Title: Managing Complex Innovation: Across Knowledge Domains, Product Components, and Technological Lifecycles

Supervisors: Professor Marcela Miozzo, Dr Lourdes Sosa (LSE)

Year of Entry: 2019, Full-time

Luka Gebel was a PhD candidate at King’s College London where he had also been elected on its business school advisory council. He also held a formal appointment at the Department of Management at the London School of Economics. 

Luka holds a BBA in Economics from Midwestern State University in Texas (University Valedictorian) and a MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship and Innovation from King’s College London (Distinction, Best Dissertation Award)

His research identity concerns the inductive, mixed-method study of innovation management and technology. Under the supervision of Professor Marcela Miozzo (King's College London) and Dr Lourdes Sosa (LSE), his dissertation comprises three studies focused on managing complexity in innovation across knowledge domains, product components, and technological lifecycles.

His experience in the pharmaceutical industry drives his research and teaching in complex innovation management. Prior to his PhD, he worked at the Milner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge, comprising of pharma and biotech companies such as Pfizer, AstraZeneca, BMS, and GSK, as well as a pre-seed venture arm. The institute is most known for the first CRISPR-based cancer drug trials.

Luka has taught on the MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship and Innovation at King’s College London and Strategic Management at the London School of Economics, earning the Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year award and a 4.7-4.9/5.0 student rating over the past three years.