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Building intellectual foundations of future business leaders is Dr. Akintunde M. Ajagbe’s passion as a professor of business administration. Throughout his career he has inspired students to think globally to create innovative techniques and scale-up previously unimaginable technologies around the world. Dr. Ajagbe has traveled the world and has over 20 years of academic, research and industry experience within business administration and entrepreneurship and Marketing and Sales. He has taught classes on Creativity and Innovation, Entrepreneurial Finance, Advanced Strategic Management, Organizational Leadership: Doctorial Theory and Practice and Qualitative Research Methods in addition to having supervised post graduate students with research thesis.

Dr. Ajagbe has a sincere interest and intense desire to offer his knowledge in research and industry to help build capacity in the field of technology entrepreneurship and venture capital in developing countries and other regions of the world. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Management from the Universiti of Teknologi Malaysia and his Master of Business Administration from Ambrose Ali University in Nigeria. He received the Innovation Champion award from Stanford Research institute Training (SRI), California in 2012 for his immense contribution to Universiti of TeknologiMalaysia’s entrepreneurship workshop on how to scale-up innovations for commercial products.

As a distinguished professor Dr.Ajagbe co-authored two books: Technology Entrepreneurship: Financing Technology Entrepreneurs in 2015 and Employee Engagement as a Human Resource Development Practice in 2014. He also authored two online distance learning course research books in 2015 for Covenant University in Nigeria for the Executive Diploma Program as well and severaltext book chapters in business administration and entrepreneurship for PenerbitUTM Press.

Enthusiastic about research, Dr. Ajagbe has writtenwell over 100 articles published in international journals and conferences in recognized indexed proceedings. In 2015, Webometrics ranked him 238 best scholar out of 798 recognized scientist in Nigeria with an H-index of 9 and 218 citations. In 2018 he attained an H-index of 16 and 778 citations. He is a research member of the International Economics Development Research Center in Hong Kong, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology in Singapore, American Association of International Researchers and a member of several other professional affiliations in Nigeria. His research clusters include Entrepreneurship&InnovationTask Force at UTM Malaysia and the E-Learning Cluster and E-Governance Research Clusters at Covenant University inNigeria among many other research clusters.