Research

For details of current research on technology and innovation management,

visit the Intrapreneurship Hub and SPRU research site.

Past funded projects:

Development and Exploitation of Financial Innovation

ESRC project, 2010-2012,with Paul Nightingale (SPRU) and Gordon Murray (Exeter). Explores the financing of high-impact firms, defined as the top performing 2-3 per cent of firms that have a major impact on the economy.

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-598-25-0054/read

Managing Innovation in the New Economy (MINE)

Funded by the Candian Research Council, 2003-2008, and in collaboration with Ecole Polytechnique Montreal & the Industrial Research Institute (IRI), this project identified new patterns & strategies of innovation which transcent traditional sectors. The mixed-methods research included a web survey of more than 500 firms & firm-& project-level case studies.

http://claude.rochet.pagesperso-orange.fr/imec/mine/PresoEng.pdf

Managing innovation in design-intensive firms

Including ESRC Programme "Evolution of Business Knowledge" project on "Knowledge Representation in Design Processes" (with Imperial College), 2003-2006.

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/Grants/RES-334-25-0007/read

Managing innovation in service organizations

SPOTS (Strategy, Processes, Organization, Technology & Systems) study of 108 firms in the service sector in the U.K. and U.S.A., 1998-2003.

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=sewp76&site=25