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UMAR A. HASHIDU PhD. Umar Hashidu has over the last 5 years has been a doctoral researcher, a consulting practitioner and a tutor at the centre for innovation and enterprise at Warwick Business School. His passion for inculcating a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation as a means of creating prosperity and employment for the next generation drove him to teach international perspective on entrepreneurship and innovation in high tech firms to university students. His penchant for teaching made him volunteer to teach at a local school in Coventry as an undergraduate student and to be selected as part of Warwick in Africa education programme to teach in South Africa in conjunction with Witwatersrand University. This has enabled Umar to understand the need to teach students to be inventive to foster entrepreneurship and growth especially in the African continent. Umar has put research into practice by setting up a business process outsourcing firm to provide service to Nigerian firms that lack the skills set and expertise so that they can compete in the global market. Straddling between Europe and Africa has given Umar a nuanced and global perspective on knowledge, innovation, technology transfer and entrepreneurship and the role of governments/leadership in providing a framework to unleash untapped human potential. Umar in his research, education, and travels has acquired team-building skills, which he put into practice in setting up a firm and winning a multi-million dollar consultancy engagement, as well as mentoring young entrepreneurs through Warwick Ventures; strong communications and analytical skills which he employs in various spheres of life. Umar is a post-viva doctoral researcher in knowledge management and innovation doing his corrections at Warwick Business School; he holds a BEng in Systems Engineering and an MSc in International Technology Management both from Warwick University, UK.