Dr Nikolaos Goumagias

Assistant Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

Dr Nikolaos Goumagias (Woomayas) is an Assistant Professor at Newcastle Business School of Northumbria University. He teaches Digital Entrepreneurship, Digital Business, and Entrepreneurial Leadership. His research is focused on entrepreneurial finance, venture-capital syndication, business model evolution and digital games industry.

Dr Nikolaos Goumagias obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Informatics (Operational Research) from the University of Macedonia in Greece. His thesis focused on modelling and studying the decision process of optimal taxation and tax evasion. Before that, he studied Accounting and Financial Management (MSc) at Lancaster University, and Economic Sciences (BSc Hons) at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, majoring at Business Economics.

He was previously positioned as a post-doctoral Research Fellow working on the EPSRC / ESRC funded project called NEMOG (New Economic Models for Digital Games) at Durham University Business School. In the past he worked along North East Local Enterprise Partnership, Centre for Process Innovation and the UK National Commission of UNESCO.

Campus Address

Central Campus East 1

Email Nikolaos

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Entrepreneurial finance

Venture-capital syndication

Business Unicorns

Business model innovation

Video-games industry

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Connecting Dots: Enhancing Students’ Research Skills by Developing Sustainability-oriented Entrepreneurial Projects, Gadelshina, G., Goumagias, N. 2024, 10th Teaching Innovation & Entrepreneurship Excellence Awards 2024, Reading, United Kingdom, Academic Conferences International Limited
How to overcome path dependency through resource reconfiguration, Goumagias, N., Fernandes, K., Nucciarelli , A., Li, F. 1 Jun 2022, In: Journal of Business Research
Making sense of the Internet of Things: A critical review of Internet of Things definitions between 2005 and 2019, Goumagias, N., Whalley, J., Dilaver, O., Cunningham, J. 1 Nov 2021, In: Internet Research
The Internet of Things Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Goumagias, N. 14 Jul 2020, The Internet of Things Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Palgrave Macmillan
Do unicorns exist in China? A study of the Chinese technological start-up ecosystem, Goumagias, N., Whalley, J., Cunningham, J. 18 Jun 2019, 30th European Conference of the International Telecommunications society
Estimating the wider value generated by UNESCO’s designations in the United Kingdom, Goumagias, N., Fernandes, K., Rabbagliatti, M., Purvis, K., Ferguson, A. 19 Sep 2019, Sixth World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research Conference
How the Business Model of Customisable Card Games Influences Player Engagement, Hodge, V., Sephton, N., Devlin, S., Cowling, P., Goumagias, N., Shao, J., Purvis, K., Cabras, I., Fernandes, K., Li, F. 23 Dec 2019, In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
Developing an innovation ecosystem: Policy, skills and operations, Fernandes, K., Goumagias, N., Shukla, M., Oxley, G., Purvis, K., Cabras, I., Xiong, Y., Seddighi, H., Watson, D., Coleman, P., Matthew, S., Issac, B., Mary Jacob, S. 31 May 2018

PGR Supervision

Nyaradzai Phiri Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Financial Forecasting: Evaluating Accuracy to strengthen UK SME survivability. Start Date: 01/03/2025 End Date: 17/10/2025
Nyaradzai Phiri A Critical Realist Reconceptualisation of Technology Adoption: A case of AI Adoption in SME Finance Functions Start Date: 01/03/2025

Qualifications

Computer Studies PhD August 31 2013