Peter Hiscocks

Fellow in Entrepreneurship

MBA, DIC

Professional experience

Peter Hiscocks has spent a number of years in the private sector working in product development in large companies before starting his own businesses. Peter has founded eight new ventures of which three have been sold, one has closed and he is Chairman or Director of the others. These businesses include Integral Inc - a $50 million consulting company; Ecurie25 Ltd - a supercar club; and Pod Point Ltd - an EV recharging business. He is the Chairman of a £20 million seed-fund that helps fund new business start-ups and is on the advisory board of a large venture capital company. He is also an active business angel.

Peter teaches innovation management and entrepreneurship on the MBA and other programmes at Cambridge Judge Business School. He also teaches entrepreneurship and business finance for other Departments within the University of Cambridge including Engineering, Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Physics. He is actively involved in supporting the School’s Executive Education programmes.

Previous appointments

At the University of Cambridge Peter was Director of Cambridge Enterprise (the commercialisation arm of the University of Cambridge) and prior to that was the first Director of the Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre. Peter was Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Auckland from 2001 until 2006; he is a Visiting Fellow at IST, University of Lisbon, and also a Visiting Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Technical University, Delft.

Peter has advised several European governments and has chaired European Commission committees on matters of innovation strategy; commercialising university intellectual property; and improving the effective transfer of research programmes into commercial innovations.

Research interests

Innovation management; entrepreneurship; investment financing of new business ventures.

Peter Hiscocks is a member of the Strategy & Marketing subject group.