Lynne Craig’s Academic Leadership role as Co-Director Entrepreneurship and Innovation seeks to establish an entrepreneurial mindset and ignite the minds of others to connect across disciplines.
Lynne has founded multiple technology businesses and retains a non-executive director role of Holition Augmented Retail Ltd, a company she founded in 2008 as a spin-out business from Birmingham City University- one of the first creative technology businesses emergent from what became, ‘Silicone Roundabout’ in London’s Tech City. Lynne’s approach has led to multiple global patents for the company in areas of AR and computer vision. Her work has been featured in New York Times, Financial Times, BBC World Service, Business of Fashion, Telegraph, Dezeen, and Forbes.
Lynne has passion for supporting diversity in tech entrepreneurship and has advised over 100 businesses across Europe, specialising in high value manufacture, fashion, robotics and sustainability and has supported UoE AI Accelerator, Scottish Edge Awards, FarFetch Outlier Ventures, Centre for Fashion Enterprise amongst others. Lynne is Board Member of Goldsmiths Centre, a charity founded by London livery organisation, Goldsmiths Company, through membership of the Technology Advisory Strategy Committee.
Lynne’s innovation practice examines Human Robot Interaction (HRI) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI), developing future opportunities for wearing technologies, based at Institute of Design Informatics.
