Andrew is Professor of the Management of Projects in the School of Construction and Project Management, the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London. He is Visiting Professor, Department of Business and Management, LUISS, Rome. Previously he was Adjunct Professor of Project Management in the Department of Leadership and Organisation, Norwegian Business School and Reader in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, where he was a co-director of the EPSRC Innovation Studies Centre and theme leader of research on innovation in infrastructure projects and systems. Before that he was a Senior Fellow in SPRU, University of Sussex where he was deputy director of the ESRC Complex Product Systems Innovation Centre.  

His published research has focused on how innovation occurs in complex product systems, project-based firms and organisations, systems integration, and integrated solutions business models. He has published in a range of leading management journals such as California Management Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Research Policy, Organization Studies, Industrial Marketing Management and Industrial and Corporate Change. He is author of Projects: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press (2017), The Business of Projects, Cambridge University Press (2005), co-authored with Michael Hobday, and The Business of Systems Integration, Oxford University Press (2003, 2005), co-edited with Andrea Prencipe and Michael Hobday. 

He is on the Editorial Board of the Project Management Journal and an Associate Editor of International Journal of Project Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, IEEE Transactions of Engineering Management, and Engineering Project Organization Journal. He was a Fellow (2007-2010) of the Advanced Institute of Management “Targeted Initiative on Innovation”. He was awarded an IBM Faculty Award in 2005 to study services science in project-based firms.