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PIERRAKIS, Ioannis

PIERRAKIS, Ioannis

Professor Agregat
Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences
Department of Department of Economy and Business Organization

Contact

Tel. +34 932 541 800
Ext. 4157
ipierrakis@uic.es
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  • Academic training
  • Research lines
  • Publications
    • Articles
    • Book chapters
  • Subjects taught
  • European Regional Development
  • UNIVERSITY OF WALES CARDIFF
  • PhD in Investments and innovation
  • Cardiff University
Academic Director: Master’s Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity (a partnership with KPMG). Faculty Coordinator of Accounting and Finance. Member of the Comité Académico del Doctorado (CAD). Associate Editor: Strategic Management Journal Yannis teaches Entrepreneurial Finance and his research interests include Venture Capital, Business Angels, Startup creation, Crowdfunding and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Before joining UIC Barcelona, Yannis worked as an Associate Professor at Kingston University London and prior to that as an Innovation Consultant for The World Bank, Finance and Private Sector Development Department in Europe and Central Asia. He was previously Head of Investments Research at NESTA, the UK Innovation Agency (London, UK) and a Research Associate at Cardiff Business School, UK. He received his PhD from Cardiff University, UK in 2012. His thesis examined the role of different types of venture capital, public and private, in fostering innovation at the regional level.
  • Management decision, Exploring management buy-ins and open innovation dynamics
    Name: Tsvetkov, Nikolai; Pierrakis, Yannis; Abdi, Yaghoub Role: Autor Publishing date: 2025
    Start page: 4043 End page: 4065 Vol.: 63 No.: 12
    DOI: 10.1108/MD-06-2024-1397 ISSN or title: 0025-1747
  • Strategic Change, Cleantech incubators within the sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis; Ivanova, Anna; Chawdhary, Rahul Role: Autor Publishing date: 2024
    Start page: 479 End page: 495 Vol.: 33 No.: 6
    DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2598
  • Electronic markets, Textual sentiment analysis and description characteristics in crowdfunding success: The case of cybersecurity and IoT industries
    Name: Yosipof, A.; Drori, N.; Elroy, O.; Pierrakis, Ioannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2024
    Vol.: 34
    DOI: 10.1007/s12525-024-00712-4 ISSN or title: 1019-6781
  • IEEE transactions on engineering management, Innovation and Foresight in SMEs
    Name: Vecchiato, Riccardo; Do, Hang; Pierrakis, Yannis; Blackburn, Robert Role: Autor Publishing date: 2024
    Start page: 1655 End page: 1668 Vol.: 71
    DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2023.3336732 ISSN or title: 0018-9391
  • Strategic Change, Giving coins for free
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis; Bhimireddy, Nishanth Role: Autor Publishing date: 2024
    Start page: 67 End page: 77 Vol.: 33 No.: 2
    DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2563
  • Innovation: management, policy and practice: the international journal for innovation research, commercialization, policy analysis and Best practice, Startup ventures and equity finance
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis; Owen, Robyn Role: Autor Publishing date: 2023
    Start page: 371 End page: 395 Vol.: 25 No.: 4
    DOI: 10.1080/14479338.2022.2029706 ISSN or title: 1447-9338
  • Local Economy, Internationalisation and localisation
    Name: Harrison, Richard T.; Yohanna, Babangida; Pierrakis, Yannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2020
    Start page: 230 End page: 256 Vol.: 35 No.: 3
    DOI: 10.1177/0269094220924344 ISSN or title: 0269-0942
  • International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Peer-to-peer lending to businesses
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Start page: 239 End page: 251 Vol.: 20 No.: 4
    DOI: 10.1177/1465750319842528 ISSN or title: 1465-7503
  • Journal of Technology Transfer, The role of venture capitalists in the regional innovation ecosystem
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis; Saridakis, George Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Start page: 850 End page: 873 Vol.: 44 No.: 3
    DOI: 10.1007/s10961-017-9622-8 ISSN or title: 0892-9912
  • Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Do publicly backed venture capital investments promote innovation? Differences between privately and publicly backed funds in the UK venture capital market
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis; Saridakis, George Role: Autor Publishing date: 2017
    Start page: 55 End page: 64 Vol.: 7
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2017.02.002
  • Journal of Alternative Investments, Venture capital in crisis
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2013
    Start page: 62 End page: 71 Vol.: 15 No.: 3
    DOI: 10.3905/jai.2012.15.3.062 ISSN or title: 1520-3255
  • Regional Studies, Venture Capital, the Regions and Public Policy
    Name: Mason, Colin; Pierrakis, Yannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2013
    Start page: 1156 End page: 1171 Vol.: 47 No.: 7
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2011.588203 ISSN or title: 0034-3404
  • Crowdfunding in Social Finance. The Palgrave Handbook of Social Finance
    Name: Bhimireddy, Nishanth; Pierrakis, Yannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2025
    Start page: 223 End page: 244
    ISBN: 9783031999055
  • Avaluació i finançament d’inversions d’impacte. Creació i gestió d’empreses socials. Teoria i casos pràctics resolts
    Name: Gil Domènech, Maria Dolors; Berbegal-Mirabent, J.; Pierrakis, Ioannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2020
    ISBN: 978-84-18464-14-0
  • Public policies and public programs with a regional impact in promoting entrepreneurship. Global Business Expansion
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2018
    Start page: 128 End page: 158
    ISBN: 1522554815
Course 2025-2026 - Period: 01/09/2025 - 31/08/2026
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Financial Economics & Capital Markets
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
Course 2024-2025 - Period: 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2025
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Financial Economics & Capital Markets
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
Course 2023-2024 - Period: 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2024
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
    • - Financial Economics & Capital Markets
    • - Final Degree Project
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
Course 2022-2023 - Period: 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2023
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
Course 2021-2022 - Period: 01/09/2021 - 31/08/2022
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
Course 2020-2021 - Period: 01/09/2020 - 31/08/2021
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
    • - Final Degree Project
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
Course 2019-2020 - Period: 01/09/2019 - 31/08/2020
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
    • - Final Degree Project
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
  • Others
    Master in Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Treball Final de Màster

Academic training

  • European Regional Development
  • UNIVERSITY OF WALES CARDIFF
  • PhD in Investments and innovation
  • Cardiff University

Research lines

Academic Director: Master’s Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity (a partnership with KPMG). Faculty Coordinator of Accounting and Finance. Member of the Comité Académico del Doctorado (CAD). Associate Editor: Strategic Management Journal Yannis teaches Entrepreneurial Finance and his research interests include Venture Capital, Business Angels, Startup creation, Crowdfunding and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Before joining UIC Barcelona, Yannis worked as an Associate Professor at Kingston University London and prior to that as an Innovation Consultant for The World Bank, Finance and Private Sector Development Department in Europe and Central Asia. He was previously Head of Investments Research at NESTA, the UK Innovation Agency (London, UK) and a Research Associate at Cardiff Business School, UK. He received his PhD from Cardiff University, UK in 2012. His thesis examined the role of different types of venture capital, public and private, in fostering innovation at the regional level.

Publications

Articles

Book chapters

  • Management decision, Exploring management buy-ins and open innovation dynamics
    Name: Tsvetkov, Nikolai; Pierrakis, Yannis; Abdi, Yaghoub Role: Autor Publishing date: 2025
    Start page: 4043 End page: 4065 Vol.: 63 No.: 12
    DOI: 10.1108/MD-06-2024-1397 ISSN or title: 0025-1747
  • Strategic Change, Cleantech incubators within the sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis; Ivanova, Anna; Chawdhary, Rahul Role: Autor Publishing date: 2024
    Start page: 479 End page: 495 Vol.: 33 No.: 6
    DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2598
  • Electronic markets, Textual sentiment analysis and description characteristics in crowdfunding success: The case of cybersecurity and IoT industries
    Name: Yosipof, A.; Drori, N.; Elroy, O.; Pierrakis, Ioannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2024
    Vol.: 34
    DOI: 10.1007/s12525-024-00712-4 ISSN or title: 1019-6781
  • IEEE transactions on engineering management, Innovation and Foresight in SMEs
    Name: Vecchiato, Riccardo; Do, Hang; Pierrakis, Yannis; Blackburn, Robert Role: Autor Publishing date: 2024
    Start page: 1655 End page: 1668 Vol.: 71
    DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2023.3336732 ISSN or title: 0018-9391
  • Strategic Change, Giving coins for free
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis; Bhimireddy, Nishanth Role: Autor Publishing date: 2024
    Start page: 67 End page: 77 Vol.: 33 No.: 2
    DOI: 10.1002/jsc.2563
  • Innovation: management, policy and practice: the international journal for innovation research, commercialization, policy analysis and Best practice, Startup ventures and equity finance
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis; Owen, Robyn Role: Autor Publishing date: 2023
    Start page: 371 End page: 395 Vol.: 25 No.: 4
    DOI: 10.1080/14479338.2022.2029706 ISSN or title: 1447-9338
  • Local Economy, Internationalisation and localisation
    Name: Harrison, Richard T.; Yohanna, Babangida; Pierrakis, Yannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2020
    Start page: 230 End page: 256 Vol.: 35 No.: 3
    DOI: 10.1177/0269094220924344 ISSN or title: 0269-0942
  • International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Peer-to-peer lending to businesses
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Start page: 239 End page: 251 Vol.: 20 No.: 4
    DOI: 10.1177/1465750319842528 ISSN or title: 1465-7503
  • Journal of Technology Transfer, The role of venture capitalists in the regional innovation ecosystem
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis; Saridakis, George Role: Autor Publishing date: 2019
    Start page: 850 End page: 873 Vol.: 44 No.: 3
    DOI: 10.1007/s10961-017-9622-8 ISSN or title: 0892-9912
  • Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Do publicly backed venture capital investments promote innovation? Differences between privately and publicly backed funds in the UK venture capital market
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis; Saridakis, George Role: Autor Publishing date: 2017
    Start page: 55 End page: 64 Vol.: 7
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2017.02.002
  • Journal of Alternative Investments, Venture capital in crisis
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2013
    Start page: 62 End page: 71 Vol.: 15 No.: 3
    DOI: 10.3905/jai.2012.15.3.062 ISSN or title: 1520-3255
  • Regional Studies, Venture Capital, the Regions and Public Policy
    Name: Mason, Colin; Pierrakis, Yannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2013
    Start page: 1156 End page: 1171 Vol.: 47 No.: 7
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2011.588203 ISSN or title: 0034-3404
  • Crowdfunding in Social Finance. The Palgrave Handbook of Social Finance
    Name: Bhimireddy, Nishanth; Pierrakis, Yannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2025
    Start page: 223 End page: 244
    ISBN: 9783031999055
  • Avaluació i finançament d’inversions d’impacte. Creació i gestió d’empreses socials. Teoria i casos pràctics resolts
    Name: Gil Domènech, Maria Dolors; Berbegal-Mirabent, J.; Pierrakis, Ioannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2020
    ISBN: 978-84-18464-14-0
  • Public policies and public programs with a regional impact in promoting entrepreneurship. Global Business Expansion
    Name: Pierrakis, Yannis Role: Autor Publishing date: 2018
    Start page: 128 End page: 158
    ISBN: 1522554815
Course 2025-2026 - Period: 01/09/2025 - 31/08/2026
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Financial Economics & Capital Markets
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
Course 2024-2025 - Period: 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2025
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
    • - Final Degree Project
    • - Financial Economics & Capital Markets
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
Course 2023-2024 - Period: 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2024
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
    • - Financial Economics & Capital Markets
    • - Final Degree Project
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
Course 2022-2023 - Period: 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2023
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
Course 2021-2022 - Period: 01/09/2021 - 31/08/2022
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
Course 2020-2021 - Period: 01/09/2020 - 31/08/2021
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
    • - Final Degree Project
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
Course 2019-2020 - Period: 01/09/2019 - 31/08/2020
  • Bachelor's Degree
    Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
    • - Final Degree Project
  • Official Master
    Máster Universitario en Financiación del Emprendimiento: Capital Riesgo y Capital Privado / University Master's Degree in Entrepreneurial Financing: Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Venture Capital - Entrepreneurial Financing
    • - Final Master's Degree Project
    University Master's Degree in Business Administration and Production Systems por la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
    • - Financial Economics
  • Others
    Master in Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Private Equity
    • - Treball Final de Màster