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Academic Publications
All Fellowships supported by AIM Research are expected to generate knowledge suitable for dissemination in scholarly settings. In addition, all Fellows are expected to engage potential knowledge generators beyond academia in dialogue and ideally the co-production of knowledge.
To view an AIM publication you can download a .pdf version from the list below.
The Republic of Engagement Exploring UK Academic Attitudes to Collaborating with Industry and Entrepreneurship
Drawing on a unique set of surveys of academics funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), this report explores changes in the way academics engage with industry in the UK between 2004 and 2009. Although there are new and increasing pressures for academics to engage with industry, the nature and extent of this industry engagement remains an area of choice for individual academics.
This report documents how academics' perceive working with industry and explores how academics manage and integrate these activities with their research and teaching efforts. It also examines the entrepreneurial efforts of UK academics. In doing so, it offers lessons for policy.
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Written by Ammon Salter, Valentina Tartari, Pablo D'Este, Andy Neely
Emerging Landscape An Exploratory Study of Management of University Knowledge Transfer Office in the UK
The significance of university to industry technology transfer in the UK was recognised in the 1990's after a widespread debate concerning the effectiveness to utilise university research. The government argued that steps needed to be taken to strengthen science and engineering to align more contact with those responsible for decisions.
This report delves into knowledge base system and innovation within businesses and the role it has played and which has evolved into something much more complex.
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Written by Hossein Sharifi and Weisheng Liu
Review of Business Process Improvement Methodologies in Public Services
This report is drawn from a set of questions proposed to and answers collected from Public Sector organisations.
The report looks at the successes and failures of innovation to their business processes and provides indications for where their future developments should be focussed. It determines which business processes are suitable for improvement approaches in the long term and short term and the practicalities associated with using these processes.
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Written by Dr Zoe Radnor
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Supporting Innovation in the 21st Century
Innovation studies define Research and Technology Institutes (RTIs) as intermediaries or bridging organisations in an innovation process.
Many key factors surfaced during the research of this report competence, management of innovation and contributions. Most importantly knowledge gained helps to adapt existing technologies for new applications across industries and sectors, resulting in innovation service providers influencing and contributing to decisions affecting the contracting firm.
This report focuses on the innovation process, which play a vital part in decision making within organisations.
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Written by Jeff Readman
The Search for Talent and Technology
Firms reach out to universities as a source of knowledge and support for their innovative activities.
They use universities as partners in collaborative research projects and as sites for recruiting trained and skilled problem solvers. The movement of many firms towards more open and distributed models of innovation creates substantial opportunities for universities to increase the breadth and depth of their role in the innovation system. Interaction between universities and industry, seeking to connect the potential economic value of universities' knowledge and skills for economic development is an opportune moment to explore the nature of collaboration between universities and industry in the UK.
This report provides a window on the nature of collaboration by reviewing the results of a survey of industrial collaborators on Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) collaborative projects.
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Written by Johan Bruneel, Pablo D'Este, Andy Neely and Ammon Salter.
Citation Counts: Are They Good Predictors of RAE Scores? A Bibliometric Analysis of RAE 2001
The question of how best to assess research performance is clearly of great concern.
In December 2007, HEFCE launched a national consultation on the future of research assessment, proposing that a Research Excellence Framework replaces the current Research Assessment Exercise. Fundamentally the Research Excellence Framework involves a shift to metrics. So how do these metrics work?
In this report the information seeks to explore empirically the question of whether metrics based on citation counts are strongly correlated with peer review assessments of research quality.
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Written by Dr Surya Mahdi, Dr Pablo D'Este and Professor Andy Neely.
The Future of Business School Faculty
Shortfalls in PhD students graduating and taking up faculty positions in the UK business schools suggests there are significant challenges in terms of faculty recruitment, retention and development.
The information revealed in this report is taken from a round table discussion on the 19th October 2006 as part of the annual ABS meeting which involved Deans and Heads of Schools. Each discussion group was asked to capture the key themes that emerged during their discussions which was then analysed, summarised and explored further by the AIM Scholars and AIM Research Deputy Director Andy Neely.
The report raises many key questions which are part of a long term challenge – but one which they will have to make in order to make life attractive for future generations of academics.
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Written By Dr Chris Ivory, Dr Peter Miskell, Professor Andy Neely, Dr Helen Shipton and Dr Andrew White.
Developing Photonics Clusters - Commonalitie, Contrasts and Contradictions
Regional clusters of specialised firms and other organisations, in particular industries, have been around for centuries and have been a subject of research for decades.
Obviously, this is true for traditional industries such as apparel, shoes, coal and steel, watch-making and machine-building. But even younger are still emerging high-tech clusters have already been intensively studied.
Photonic clusters are a high-tech field that has received a lot of managerial and political attention and which is often considered the key technology for the 21st Century. This report provides an insight into the developmental aspects of clusters and the exploration of high tech clusters.
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Written By Jörg Sydow, Frank Lerch, Chris Huxham and Paul Hibbert.
Science and Technology in the UK: 2006 Census
Every year, the UK spends £21 billion in the creation of new knowledge – via the science system in universities, research institutes and companies.
What are we getting out of this investment? And is it enough? To shed some light on the current situation in the UK, this report provides a census of the UK's science and technology system. It draws on publicly available data to review the performance of the UK science and technology system, both in terms of the investments made in the system and the outputs it delivers.
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Written by Dr Pablo D'Este and Professor Andy Neely.
The Performance Impact of Balanced Scorecard: Emerging Findings
What is the balanced scorecard? Does the balance scorecard work? What Impact does it have?
This report explores balanced scorecards and why it is one of the most widely used performance measurement tools in the world. The aim of the balanced scorecard is to improve and introduce a common measurement system to increase impact and performance within an organisation.
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Written by Rachel Griffith and Andy Neely.
The Organisation of Productivity: Re-thinking Skills and Work Organisation
UK productivity has improved in recent years but the improvement might not be as great as it could have been.
This report bought together leading practitioners and academics as part of the Management Research Forum in 2006 who discussed the major analysis of the nature of productivity and who to re-think and re-think their processes. The report looks in particular at the use of skills and there organisation in processes of production and service delivery.
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Written by Rick Delbridge, Paul Edwards, John Forth, Peter Miskell and Jonathan Payne.
UK Business Schools: Historical Contexts and Future Scenarios
This report begins with an analysis of the historical development of management education in Britain since 1945.
This is for two reasons. Firstly, to provide a context for understanding conflicting themes in current debates about business schools. Secondly, it is to emphasise the different types of business schools and how they have evolved in the UK within very different education institutions.
This report does not provide definitive answers to these questions. It does however, place the current challenges faced by business schools in context, offers guidance on the strategic options available, and discusses some of the practical implications of the different paths outlined.
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Written by Dr Chris Ivory, Dr Peter Miskell, Dr Helen Shipton, Dr Andrew White, Professor Kathrin Moeslein and Professor Andy Neely.
Studying Evolution of Knowledge Within Small and Medium -Sized Firms: A Systematic Review
What kind of knowledge is important to the performance of small firms?
The role of small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK economy has attracted both significant research and significant government support recently. A number of studies have highlighted the important relationship between the knowledge deployed within a business, and it's overall performance. In particular this report focuses on the dimensions of the SME knowledge-base and the adoption of 'activity systems' perspective.
This report is a comprehensive, detailed and accessible account based on evidence taken from the EBK project lead by Professor Richard Thorpe and Oswald Jones.
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Written by Richard Thorpe, Robin Holt, Allan Macpherson and Luke Pittaway.
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Small Firms, Learning and Growth
Following on from research conducted in a similar field of studies this report covers: human and social capital, organisational systems and knowledge networks.
These are combined in order to facilitate or restrict growth. In reflection more research is needed to indentify and explore the diversity of small firms as existing developments within wider organisational knowledge is currently lagging behind.
In this review we investigate the observed evidence which links small firms growth and knowledge to the proposed and sustained.
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Written by Robin Holt and Allan Macpherson.
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Sustaining Manufacturing Improvement
There are many factors that can lead to greater sustainability within manufacturing businesses.
The research presented in this report is based on eight case studies of companies which have used the Manufacturing Advisory Services (MAS) Lean production programme or intervention, delivered by EEF South.
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Written by Professor Adrian Done, Professor Niels Gorm Rytter and Professor Chris Voss.
External Knowledge
Organisations pass through a series of different stages birth being the obvious first stage in business development 'life cycle'.
The life cycle continues through a sequence sometimes marked as trauma or crisis which culminates in maturity, reinvention or revitalisation (mostly), or death (occasionally).
This report presents the findings from a review of the empirical and theoretical literature addressing the states and stages of business growth and how these can be influenced by external interventions.
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Written by John Bessant, Bob Phelps and Richard Adams.
Challenging Clusters - The Prospects and Pitfalls of Clustering for Innovation and Economic Development
What are clusters and how are they challenging? How do clusters benefit or affect businesses and the wider economy?
This report seeks to create the conditions that encourage the formation and growth of clusters. A broad range of benefits are expected to arise from the facilitation of clusters.
This report was part of the Management Research Forum which took place in April 2005 in cooperation with the Welsh Economy Research Unit. The key objective of the event was to scrutinise the empirical evidence on clusters and their impact.
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Written by Dr. Pierpaolo Andriani, Calvin Jones, Dr. Markus Perkmann, Dr. Lisa De Propris,Dr. Vania Sena, Professor Rick Delbridge, Dr. Kathrin Möslein and Professor Andy Neely.
The Role and Importance of Strategy Workshops
What are strategy workshops and how can organisations improve the practice developing strategies?
Very little is known about strategy workshops therefore this research is the first of its kind where the study is to establish a better picture of what goes on in such workshops and there effectiveness.
This project was undertaken to help address this major shortfall in our knowledge of this sphere of management practices. The findings provide a number of key insights into the scale and scope of these activities and the extent to which and in what ways they help contribute to the effective development and implementation of strategies in organisations.
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Written by Professor Gerard P. Hodgkinson, Professor Gerry Johnson, Professor Richard Whittington and Dr Mirela Schwarz.
Managing to Improve Public Services
Public Service reform remains a central priority for the UK Government.
During the Government's third term there was the prospect of continuing change in services ranging from schools, hospitals and the police to local government's relationships with Westminster, Whitehall and local communities.
AIM Research's Public Service Fellows seek to contribute evidence and ideas to this process of change, and to the specialist and public debate accompanying it, by advancing the research and theory-building that is needed to inform efforts to improve public service.
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Written by Professor G Boyne, Dr. P Collier, Professor C Donaldson, Professor J Hartley, Professor P Longley, Professor M O'Mahony, Professor M Pidd, Professor C Skelcher, Professor B Townley, Dr. R Walker and Professor M Wallace.
Leadership for Innovation
What does leadership in the context of innovation mean? Is there such a thing as inspirational leadership for innovation?
What do we know about leadership? How does leadership affect organisational context? What sort of organisational contexts are necessary to generate innovation?
This report explores previous work on inspirational leadership undertaken by the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) now known as BIS and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) the focus of the forum was 'inspirational leadership for innovation'. It is widely accepted that the UK is less productive than its major competitors – France, Germany and the US - in many sectors and it is widely argued that one way of overcoming the productivity gap is by promoting greater levels of innovation in the UK.
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Written by Dr. Natasha Munshi, Dr. Adegoke Oke, Dr. Phanish Puranam, Maria Stafylarakis, Steve Towells, Dr. Kathrin Moeslein and Professor Andy Neely.
Offshoring of Business Services and it's Impact on the UK Economy
Is offshoring of business services and its impact on the UK economy good for the UK?
This report considers recent trends in specialisation, outsourcing and offshoring of business services which is significant for thinking about business practice and public policy. UK businesses are now outsourcing a substantially greater proportion of services activities than they did two decades ago. This domestic outsourcing has played a more important role in the growth of business services than demand from foreign businesses.
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Written by Laura Abramovsky, Rachel Griffith and Mari Sako.
The Challenge of Business - University Collaboration: Context, Content and Process
In December 2003 Richard Lambert released his report on business collaboration, which highlighted many examples of good collaboration, but called for further development and investment.
These comments set the scene for this report, which explores the challenges of business-university collaboration and identifies their implications for practice and policy.
The ideas explored in this report links between universities and their local economies. The discussions centred on the experience of other parts of the UK and Europe, included examples of effective models and proposed practical mechanisms for improved links between universities and businesses.
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Written by Dr. Lisa Bradley, Dr. Geoff Gregson, Dr. Zella King, Dr. Judy Pate, Dr. Kathrin Möslein, Professor Andy Neely.
Solving the Skills Gap
The UK has lower levels of productivity than some of our major competitors and this has been an issue for many years.
Employers decisions on investment in R&D, on products and processes and where they position themselves in terms of their value added are all important.
This report is written in collaboration with The Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE) and seeks to contribute to our understanding of the low levels of productivity within the UK. The report challenges research and raises key points in the process of acknowledging and developing UK productivity.
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Written by Dr. Nick Bloom, Dr. Neil Conway, Dr. Kevin Mole, Dr. Kathrin Möslein, Professor Andy Neely and Dr. Caitlin Frost.
Networking and Innovation in the UK
Networking and Innovation in the UK provides evidence to confirm that networks and networking amongst firms plays a pivotal role in innovation and that this has become more relevant as technologies have become more complex.
The review found that network firms can be complex and that there is little evidence to explain which forms of network most contribute to innovation.
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Written by Dr. Luke Pittaway, Dr. Maxine Robertson, Dr. Kamal Munir, Dr. David Denyer and Professor Andy Neely.
Adoption of Promising Practice
Is it possible to successfully adopt promising practices in UK organisations?
This report investigates the findings from previous studies and raises a series of key points such as the low level of adoption of promising practices and demonstrates that UK organisations on average lag behind their European counterparts. This report explores institutional 'push' and 'pull' drivers and how to adopt successful practices.
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Written by Dr Michel Leseure, Dr Kamal Birdi, Dr Joachim Bauer, Dr David Denyer and Professor Andy Neely.
How Can Firms Be Encouraged To Create More Value?
Can firms be encouraged to create more value through innovation?
This paper investigates how firms in the UK might be encouraged to create more value through strategic innovation. In the report it argues that there are three basic strategies that firms can adopt to create more value through strategic innovation. The key points raised contend with the increased value is likely to be created if firms adopt one of more of these three strategies, which are found in the report.
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Writen by Dr. Tim Edwards, Dr. Giuliana Battisti, Dr. Wesley Payne McClendon Jr., Dr. David Denyer and Professor Andy Neely.
The UK Productivity Gap and the Importance of the Service Sector
The UK's poor productivity performance is relative to the US has been a focus for government policy and analysis in budgets and pre-budget reports.
Labour productivity growth fell over in the early 1990's when the UK experienced relatively faster growth in business sector labour productivity than the US, but it has since increased again as productivity growth slowed in the UK and accelerated in the US, but why is this?
This report covers productivity and performance in the US and UK and how the business sector is affected.
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Written by Rachel Griffith, Rupert Harrison, Jonathan Haskel, and Mari Sako.
Post Porter: Where Do We Go From Here?
Can the UK be described as a good innovator? Is it people and organisations that innovate not economies or sectors?
There is widespread concern and agreement that the UK cannot continue to compete on the basis of low cost and that companies have to shift their focus to higher value and innovation. This report focuses innovation and dynamic models in inter-firm and extra-firm issues when debating and formulating policy.
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Written by Dr Kamal Birdi, Dr David Denyer, Dr Kamal Munir, Professor Andy Neely, Dr Jaideep Prabhu.
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