Costas Andriopoulos

Costas Andriopoulos is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and serves as the Associate Dean of MBA programmes at Bayes Business School (City, University of London).

Costas ranks in the top 3% globally in innovation management based on citation count. He is deeply committed to education, equipping founders, and leaders with the tools to think differently, encouraging them to take calculated risks, and guiding them to make decisions that lead to meaningful and impactful innovations.

At Bayes, he has been instrumental in developing and expanding a highly regarded Masters in Entrepreneurship program, where students are encouraged to think about big problems and ways to solve them and take a journey into the 'unknown' by starting their own ventures. Costas also played a pivotal role in establishing Bayes X, a prominent research centre dedicated to innovation and disruption.

He has co-authored the textbook “Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation” (5th Edition, Sage, 2024) and authored “Purposeful Curiosity” (Yellow Kite 2023), a popular book that delves into the transformative power of purpose-driven curiosity for success and fulfilment. Additionally, he is the Director of Avyssos Advisors Ltd., a consultancy specializing in innovation management.