Dr Tausif Bordoloi

Tausif Bordoloi is Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Exeter Business School (UEBS). He is Co-Programme Director of MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which launched in September 2026. He led the programme’s development from conception to launch, including competitive analysis, securing institutional approvals, and overseeing programme positioning.

Since September 2026, he has served as Director of Education (Understudy) for the Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship (ITE) sub-department within the Department of Management at UEBS. In this role, he provides departmental academic leadership on education, quality assurance and student experience. He is also ITE’s Advanced Teaching Practitioner, championing teaching excellence and supporting colleagues in curriculum design and continuous professional development.

In the classroom, Tausif values fostering curiosity by linking academic research to applied experiences. He believes that learning about innovation in the 21st century is one of the greatest challenges students can undertake as it demands an appreciation of diverse perspectives, including economics, ethics, psychology and geopolitics. In 2026-27, Tausif convenes and teaches on BEMM333 Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Practice: Pre-Incubator, a master's module which he developed in collaboration with the University’s Student Startups Team. This module brings live venture building into formal study, so students build real ventures for credit as part of their degree. Previously, he created and taught master’s modules on innovation management and policy as well as an undergraduate module on the circular economy.

As module leader, he has consistently achieved excellent student satisfaction ratings, including scores of 4.85 out of 5 in BEMM178 Innovation Management. At UEBS, Tausif was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award in Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship in recognition of his innovative, impact-driven teaching. He was also nominated for the student-led Exeter Students' Guild Supervisor of the Year award for providing 'exceptional guidance' in undergraduate dissertation supervision.

Tausif is Principal Investigator on an Exeter Education Incubator grant (£4,792) for the project Whose sustainable future? Co-designing inclusive, critically engaged use of Generative AI in business and sustainability higher education.

He is co-supervisor of PhD candidate Robert Mittendorff, whose ongoing doctoral research is on Innovation Systems and Venture Capital Firms: A Theory and Empirical Analysis of the Catalytic Effects of the Venture Industry in Biotechnology.

Tausif's research is interdisciplinary. The underlying theme of his research interests is a quest to gain a deeper understanding of advanced technologies such as semiconductors and artificial intelligence through strategy, policy and geopolitical perspectives. His ongoing projects investigate the processes through which firms and nations acquire and maintain 'technological sovereignty'. He examines how geopolitically driven rules (e.g., sanctions and export controls) are transmitted through lead firms’ global production networks and how they (re)shape the innovation strategies of embedded small- and medium-sized firms. Tausif's academic research has been published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change and Science and Public Policy as well as practitioner research in OECD Policy Papers. 

A biochemist by training, Tausif held corporate strategy and growth ventures roles at Monsanto India, where his work in the areas of gene editing, agricultural microbials and RNA interference technologies contributed to several R&D collaborations and a ~$1 billion acquisition. Tausif also gained experience as a finance project manager at Nissan Europe, driving economic performance of vehicle programmes from concept to launch through business case development, risk analysis and profitability optimisation. Between these experiences, he completed his MBA at UEBS, graduating with distinction. During his MBA, Tausif was awarded the One Planet MBA 5th Anniversary Scholarship by UEBS and the Chevening Scholarship - the UK Government’s flagship scholarship programme for international students. He subsequently completed his PhD from the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, focusing on technology adoption by aerospace and automotive small- and medium-sized firms.