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Dr Nikolaos Goumagias

Assistant Professor

School: Newcastle Business School

Dr Nikolaos Goumagias (Woomayas) is an Assistant Professor at Newcastle Business School of 51. 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. 

Nikolaos Goumagias

Campus Address

Central Campus East 1



Entrepreneurial finance

Venture-capital syndication

Business Unicorns

Business model innovation

Video-games industry

  • Nyaradzai Phiri Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Financial Forecasting: Evaluating Accuracy to strengthen UK SME survivability. Start Date: 01/03/2025
  • 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

Computer Studies PhD August 31 2013


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