John Bessant is Director of Research and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Exeter Business School. Before joining Exeter he was Director of the EPSRC/AIM Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge programme His areas of research includes the management of discontinuous innovation, strategies for developing high involvement innovation and enabling effective inter-firm collaboration and learning in product and process innovation. For further information or to download the outcomes of the research conducted then please visit the ESRC website.

For further information or to download the outcomes of the research conducted then please visit the ESRC website.

AIM Publications

• WP No. 009- Beyond the Steady State: Managing Discontinuous Product and Process Innovation

• WP No. 010- Developing Parallel Routines for Radical Product Innovation

• External Knowledge

• Deal with Discontinuity

• Intelligent Design

• Twelve search strategies that could save your organisation

AIM Projects

• Building Innovation Management Capability in SMEs

• Developing New Routines for Managing Discontinuous Innovation

• Innovation and Productivity Grand Challenge

• Accelerating Diffusion of Innovation

• Discontinuous Innovation

• Innovating Routines in a Creative Industry: The US and UK Electronic Games Industry

• Measuring and Enabling Innovative Capability

Related Links

• University of Exeter Profile Page

• IPGC Website

For additional information relating to Professor John Bessant please contact him at j.bessant@exeter.ac.uk

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